The golden voice of Assam, Dr. Bhupen Hazarika is a singer, lyricist, music director, poet and director who enjoys cult status in the entire Northeast, West Bengal and even Bangladesh. Born in the remote town of Sadiya of Assam in 1926,he came to Guwahati for his Intermediate in Arts from Cotton College, Guwahati in 1942 before moving on to the Banaras Hindu University where he earned his Bachelors and Masters degrees. He then went over [...]
About Deepika Padukone is one of the most highly-paid actresses in the world and also the most popular and attractive personality in the nation. She has acted is some of the best movies of Bollywood and also bagged several awards. Besides acting, she is the founder of The Live Love Laugh Foundation and even designed her own line of clothing. Personal Life She was born on 5 January 1986, in Denmark, to a former badminton [...]
Ashutosh Rana is known for his acting skills. Married to actress Renuka Shahane, a famous actor in her own right. Ashutosh Rana started his film career with the popular serial Swabhimaan. After that his biggest moment came with the film Dushman where he played a cold-blooded murderer and psychopathic killer. Apart from his role as a psychopath killer in Sangharsh, he played the role of hero in Kewal Krishna’s Pardesi Re opposite to Shama Sikander. [...]
About Anil Kapoor is a well-known Indian actor who has been associated with Bollywood for more than 40 years and also did international films and television series. He has also been a producer since 2005. Personal Life He was born in Chembur, a suburb of Mumbai on 24 December, 1959. Born in the family of film makers, Anil acquired a graduate degree from the Film and T.V Institute of India (FTII) in Pune. Both his [...]
Amitabh Bachchan, the ‘Shehenshah’ of Bollywood, has evolved to become one of the most recognised names in the country. He was born on October 11, 1942, to eminent poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan and Teji Bachchan. He is well-known internationally, active in helping out in social issues and also connects well with the masses. His appearance on the TV show ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’, gave a new lease of life to his career and helped him earn [...]
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, also known as Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, was a great poet, writer, and journalist. Born on June 27, 1838, in West Bengal’s Kantalpara village, he did his schooling from Midnapur. He graduated from Mohsin College at Hoogly. He is most famous for penning down Vande Mataram, which is later adapted to as India’s national song. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee was a voracious reader and was especially interested in Sanskrit literature. He got admission in [...]
Mahadevi Verma, a famous Hindi poet and writer, was born in 1907, in Farrukhabad in a family of lawyers. She was the eldest among her four siblings. She received her education at Jabalpur,Madhya Pradesh and was married to Dr. Swarup Narayan Verma at an early age. After marriage she continued to live with her family and receive education. She went to Allahabad University for higher education and obtained her Master’s degree in Sanskrit from Allahabad [...]
Last Updated – 11 July 2019 ***** Jhumpa Lahiri: Indian American Author Jhumpa Lahiri Vourvoulias was born as Nilanjana Sudeshna on July1,1967 in London, and brought up in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. Jhumpa won the Pulitzer Prize in the year 2000 for Debut Fiction for her book Interpreter of Maladies, the first Asian to do so. An Indian American author of Bengali origin, she did her Bachelors in English literature from Barnard College in 1989, following it up [...]
About V-S-Naipaul Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, a British novelist was born on August 17, 1932, in Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago. His forefathers hailed from Gorakhpur in eastern Uttar Pradesh. A recepient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990. Married to Nadira Naipaul, his works have been criticized by many for his allegedly unsympathetic portrayal of the Third World. His views on the rise of Hindutva [...]
Khushwant Singh is one of the most prominent novelists and journalists of India, Khushwant Singh was born on 2 February 1915 in Hadali (in present-day Pakistan). He graduated from the Government College, Lahore, before studying law at King’s College, London. He wrote a weekly column, “With Malice towards One and All”, which was published in several leading newspapers all over the country. He had been the editor of Yojana, The Illustrated Weekly of India, The [...]
