March 12
Yashwantrao Balwantrao Chavan, union minister and Maharashtra’s first chief minister, was born in the state’s Sangli district on 12 March 1913. He was raised by his uncle and mother after his father’s death. He took part in the independence movement and in 1932 was sent to jail by the British for hoisting the tricolour. He studied history and political science... Read More →
March 11
Dwijendranath Tagore, a quintessential Bengali Renaissance man who, among other things, was a poet, composer, mathematician and philosopher, was born on 11 March 1840. Dwijendranath’s father and grandfather were Debendranath and Dwarkanath Tagore, respectively. Debendranath Tagore was a social and religious reformer and one of the founders of the Hindu reformist movement Brahmo Samaj. Dwarkanath Tagore was among the first... Read More →
March 10
Seven years after he returned from South Africa, Mahatma Gandhi was arrested and tried for sedition on 10 March 1922, a trial that led to a six-year jail sentence. However, he eventually served only two years of that term. When Gandhi returned toIndiafor good in 1915, he was already a well-known activist for the Indian community’s cause inSouth Africaand all... 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 →
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 8
With the pen name of Abdul Hayee, Sahir Ludhiyanvi was popularly known as Sahir. He was born on 8 March 1921 and won a Filmfare Award for Best Lyricist for the movie Taj Mahal that released in 1963. As an Indian poet and film lyricist, Sahir wrote in the Hindi and Urdu languages. Later, he also won a second Filmfare... Read More →
March 8
Vasundhara Raje, a two-time BJP chief minister of Rajasthan and member of the Scindia royal family, was born on 8 March 1953 in Mumbai. Raje’s father, Jivajirao Scindia, was the Maharaja of Gwalior. Her mother, Vijayaraje Scindia, entered politics after her husband’s death in 1961 and went on to become an important BJP leader. Raje’s brother, Madhavrao Scindia, was also... Read More →
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 →
