Who-is-Who

Sheila Dikshit Sheila Dikshit served as the chief minister of Delhi for three consecutive terms, lasting from 1998 to 2013. She was the second woman chief minister of Delhi, after succeeding the previous Delhi chief minister, Sushma Swaraj. Dikshit is an alumni of the Miranda House College in Delhi and holds a Master of Arts degree. She has also been honoured with the Doctor of Philosophy (Honouris Causa) from the University of Delhi. Dikshit was [...]

P.V. Narasimha Rao was the 12th Prime Minister of India, the first Prime Minister outside the Nehru-Gandhi family to serve office for five years. He is credited with resurrecting India’s economy. He entered the record books by winning the elections with a record majority of 5 lakh votes. Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao or P.V.Narasimha Rao was born on June 28, 1921, in a village named Vangara in the Karimnagar District of Andhra Pradesh. He did [...]

About Meira Kumar Meira Kumar, United Progressive Alliance’s nominee for President of India in the 2017 election, has been a five-time member of the Parliament during her political career. Kumar also holds the honour of being the first woman Speaker of the Lok Sabha during the period 2009-2014. A lawyer by profession and also a former diplomat, the 72-year old Meira Kumar has served as a Cabinet Minister in the Ministry of Social Justice and [...]

Born on 5 January 1955 in Kolkata, Mamata Banerjee is the current Chief Minister of West Bengal and the first woman to hold the office. Popularly known as “Didi”, Banerjee is the chairperson of All India Trinamool Congress Party which she founded in 1997 after splitting from the Indian National Congress. She served as Minister of Coal, Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Department of Youth Affairs and Sports, Department of Women and Child [...]

Govind Ballabh Pant born on August 30,1887, in the hills of Almora, Govind Ballabh Pant showed remarkable promise in school. After finishing school, young Govind went to Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh and enrolled at the Muir Central College. Soon, he became a known face among all his teachers and friends. While in college, Govind excelled in literature, mathematics and politics. During this period, Govind Ballabh Pant was immensely impressed by the speeches and ideals of Gopalkrishna [...]

Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher was a notable politician of India. He was born on 24 August 1888 in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra. After spending a few years of his childhood at Kundgol, he shifted to Pune to study at the New English School. In 1908, he passed the Bachelor of Arts examination from the Wilson College, Bombay with distinction and was awarded the Bhau Daji Lad prize for securing the highest marks in Sanskrit. Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher was [...]

Ashok Gehlot became the Chief Minister of Rajasthan for his second term on December 13, 2008. The long term member of the Indian National Congress, active in politics since student days, is a five time Lok Sabha member from Jodhpur. He has served as a Union Minister in the cabinets of Indira Gandhi, her son Rajiv Gandhi, and then PV Narsimha Rao. He was elected to the 13th legislative Assembly elections in 2008 from Sardarpura, [...]

Riteish Deshmukh was born on 17th December 1978 to an important political figure late Vilas Rao Deshmukh. He has a grand lineage of some known and famous figure of India. Riteish’s down-to-earth nature has always made him dear to his fans. Riteish Deshmukh completed his Architectural Degree from Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies and then practiced his profession with an overseas architectural firm for a year. He has an ownership in [...]

Mala Sinha is popular Indian actress of the sixties and early seventies. She married C.P. Lohani and has a daughter Pratibha Sinha, an aspiring actress of Bollywood. She was born on 11th November 1936 at Kolkata, West Bengal. In 1952, she was given a break by Ardhendu Bose, a notable Bengali film director in the film Roshanara (1952). She acted in a couple of Bengali films in Calcutta. She went to Bombay to shoot for [...]

Dia Mirza was born on December 9, 1981 in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. A model turned Bollywood actress, she was Miss Asia Pacific for the year 2000 and also second runner up in the Miss India beauty contest in 2000. Diya’s father Frank Handrich was a German interior designer and her mother Deepa Mirza was a Bengali. They separated when she was six years old. Her father died when she was nine and her mother remarried [...]