March 9
One of the first female stars of Indian cinema, the glamorous Devika Rani was born to a Bengali family in what is now Visakhapatnam on 30 March 1908. She died on 9 March 1994. Devika Rani was related to the poet and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. Her father, M.N. Chaudhuri, was a senior medical office in the British army. She... Read More →
March 9
A member of India’s Upper House of Parliament i.e. the Rajya Sabha, Karan Singh was born on 9 March 1931. He is a senior member of the Indian National Congress Party and has served successively as Sadr-i-Riyasat and Governor of Jammu and Kashmir. He is the son of the last ruler of the erstwhile princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, Maharaja Hari Singh.... Read More →
