Ashok Shandilya is a renowned billiards player of India who was born in the year of 1968 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Working for Central Railway, Ashok Shandilya has held India high in the 1998 Asian Games, where he bagged two gold medals. Ashok Shandilya, from his childhood days, had a major interest in the game of billiards. During his growing years Ashok Shandilya started playing billiards with great enthusiasm as a result of which he made [...]
Arunima Sinha is India’s and the world’s first female amputee to climb the Mount Everest. She is a former national level volleyball and football player. She was born in the year 1988. In April 2011, while traveling in the Padmavati Express train to give an examination to join the CISF, Arunima Sinha was pushed out of a running train by thieves when she resisting them as they wanted to snatch her bag and Gold chain. [...]
Armaan Ebrahim is one of the most talented car racers of the country, he is the first Indian racer to win the Formula BMW Asian Series in 2005 at Sepang, Malaysia. He has also won the Asian Karting Open Championship in 2004 at Philippines. Armaan Ebrahim was born on 17th May, 1989 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The 18 years old became the Indian Junior Rotax Karting Champion in 2004. In the same year, he became [...]
Arjun Atwal is a 34 year old internationally renowned golfer. Arjun Atwal was born on March 20, 1973 in the town of Asansol in West Bengal, India. He started playing golf from the age of 14. His learning began at the Royal Calcutta Club which is one of the oldest golf clubs present outside United Kingdom. He studied liberal arts for two years in the US (Nassau Community College in Long Island, NY). He became [...]
Aparna Popat, who was born in the year 1978 in the month of January in Mumbai, Maharashtra had been ranked 16th among the world badminton players in 1999. Although she was born in Mumbai she shifted to Bangalore, which boasts of better training facilities. The Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy is the place where Aparna Popat got her training. Before joining this Academy in the year 1994, She was training under Anil Pradhan who was a [...]
Padmabhushan Sangeetha Kalanidhi Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna was an Indian Carnatic vocalist. Born on July 6, 1930 at Sankaraguptam village in Rajolu Taluk in the East Godavari District of Andhra Pradesh, he inherited the musical traits of his parents. His father Mangalampalli Pattabhiramayya was a famous flutist and a music teacher, and mother Suryakanthama was a veena artiste. His father put him under the guidance of Parupalli Ramakrishnayya Pantul, with whom he reached the heights of [...]
Chitra Vishweswaran is one of most distinguished and leading Bharatnatyam dancers of India. Chitra’s mother Smt. Rukmini Padmanabhan recognized her talent when she was just three years old. Her father was a Railway Adviser at the Indian High Commission in London. She started taking Classical Ballet lessons in London. She also took training in Manipuri and Kathak, later in Kolkata. Chitra learnt Bharatnatyam from the maestro Smt. T. A. Rajalakshmi for 10 years. She surprised [...]
Regarded as one of the best classical musicians India has ever produced, Ustad Bismillah Khan’s name is synonymous with the shehnai in India. This great musician was born on March 21, 1916 at Dumraon in Bihar. He traced his lineage to an illustrious lineage of court musicians in the princely state of Dumraon in Bihar. He trained under the tutelage of his uncle, the late Ali Bux `Vilayatu’, a reputed shehnai player in his own [...]
Amrita Sher-Gill was born on 30 January 1913 in Budapest, Hungary. She was the daughter of Umrao Singh Sher-Gil Majithia, a Sikh aristocrat and Marie Antoinette Gottesmann, a Hungarian. Her father traced his lineage to a well-known aristocratic family near Amritsar. A renowned scholar of Sanskrit and Persian, he also studied philosophy and religion, besides astronomy, photography and carpentry, and was fluent in many languages. Amrita spent the initial years of her childhood in Europe. [...]
Mrinalini Sadananda is an internationally recognized Kuchipudi dancer, an Indian classical dance. She is also a distinguished teacher and an outstanding choreographer. Mrinalini Sadananda belongs to a family of artists. All her seven brothers and sisters excelled in one art form or another. Her father Vinjamuri Parthasarathy Iyengar was an established lawyer but had keen interest in music and loved violin. Her mother Smt. Kamala Devi was a housewife and an excellent violinist. Mrinalini Sadananda [...]
