March 7
A versatile film and stage actor who has appeared in over 400 films and dozens of plays, Anupam Kher was born on 7 March 1955 in Shimla in a Kashmiri Pandit family. He studied at the city’s DAV School and later enrolled at the National School of Drama,Delhi. He struggled in Bombay (now Mumbai) before landing a role in the... Read More →
March 6
Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, the 52nd spiritual and temporal head of the Dawoodi Bohra community, was born on 6 March 1915 in Surat,Gujarat. He performed his first Hajj at the age of 15 and got the designation of ‘Haddiyyat’ (Sheikh) in 1931. In 1934 he was designated as ‘mazoon’ by his father and predecessor Taher Saifuddin. When he turned 19 he... Read More →
March 5
The Geological Survey of India (GSI) is a government organisation which is an office associated with the Ministry of Mines of Union Government of India. Established in Calcutta on 5 March 1851, GSI conducts geological surveys and studies and is one of the oldest of such organisation in the world. GSI is also the second oldest survey in India. Being... Read More →
March 5
Biju Patnaik, a two-time chief minister of Orissa (now Odisha) — whose interest in aviation and remarkably adventurous life as a young pilot make him stand apart from other Indian politicians — was born on 5 March 1916 in a princely family. His parents Lakshminarayan and Ashalata were from the Ganjam district. Patnaik studied at the Ravenshaw College but discontinued... Read More →
March 4
A playwright, a musician, an editor and a painter, Jyotirindranath Tagore was born on 4 May, 1849. He was endowed with an outstanding talent, with a rare capability of spotting talent in other human beings. He had played a major role in flowering the hidden talents of his younger brother and the first Asian Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore. As... Read More →
March 4
Arjun Singh, a three-time Congress chief minister of Madhya Pradesh and union minister who in his long political career was once a contender for the post of prime minister, was born on 5 November 1930. He died on 4 March 2011. Arjun Singh was born to a Rajput family in Sidhi, Madhya Pradesh. His father, the Congressman Rao Shiv Bahadur... Read More →
March 3
Sharad Pawar hails from the town of Baramati in Pune district of Maharashtra and is a member of the Rajya Sabha where he leads the NCP delegation. It was in June 1997 that Pawar unsuccessfully challenged Sitaram Kesri for the post of President of the Indian National Congress. He also served as Leader of Opposition in the 12th Lok Sabha.... Read More →
March 3
“The wealth gathered by Jamsetji Tata and his sons in half a century of industrial pioneering formed but a minute fraction of the amount by which they enriched the nation. The whole of that wealth is held in trust for the people and used exclusively for their benefit. The cycle is thus complete. What came from the people has gone... Read More →
March 2
“Just as the Father of the Nation had infused moral grandeur and greatness into the struggle, Mrs Sarojini Naidu gave it artistry and poetry and that zest for life and indomitable spirit, which not only faced disaster and catastrophe, but faced them with a light heart and with a song on the lips and smile on the face…” — Prime... Read More →
March 2
A Bengali by religion, and popularly known as The Nightingale of India, Sarojini Naidu (born as Sarojini Chattopadhyay) was an Indian independence activist and poet. She served as the first governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh from 1947 to 1949. She was also the second woman to become the president of the Indian National Congress in 1925.... Read More →
