Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh who served as minister of finance, defence and external affairs in the union cabinet was born on January 3, 1938 at Jasol village in Rajasthan’s Barmer district to Sardara Singh and Kunwar Baisa. A student of Ajmer’s Mayo College and the National Defence Academy in Khadakwasla, he was an officer in the Indian... Read More →

January 2

2nd January 1989: Safdar Hashmi, theatre activist, died

Safdar Hashmi, a theatre activist, writer and co-founder of the Jana Natya Manch (called Janam in short), was born on April 12, 1954. A brilliant, multifaceted life was brutally cut short when Hashmi was assaulted while performing a street play in Ghaziabad on January 1, 1989. He died of his injuries on January 2. After finishing his school education Hashmi... Read More →

January 1

1st January 1894: Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist, was born

An Indian physicist best known for his work on quantum mechanics, Satyendra Nath Bose was born on January 1, 1894, in Calcutta. His work on the subject led to the development of Bose–Einstein statistics and the Bose–Einstein condensate theory. Bosons, a class of elementary particles that obey Bose–Einstein statistics, are named after him. Bose’s father Surendranath was employed with the... Read More →

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