Rafi Ahmed Kidwai   India : A Famous National Leader Born : AD 1896           Died : AD 1954 Rafi Ahmed Kidwai was the Food and Agriculture Minister in the Nehru Ministry. During 1952, the prices of wheat suddenly shot up and the dealers started taking advantage of the situation but it was with Rafi Ahmed’s presence of mind and efficient handling of the situation that a major catastrophe in the...

Govind Ballabh Pant   India : An Able Administrator Born : AD 1887           Died : AD 1961 Govind Ballabh Pant was born on 10 December 1887 at Almora in “Uttarakhand” (at that time Uttar Pradesh). He was born in a rich family. He was educated mostly at Allahabad. He passed his B .A. in 1907 and law in 1909. He then started practice and earned name, fame and money. He...

Udham Singh   India : A Famous Revolutionary Born : AD 1899          Died : AD 1940 Udham Singh’s name is linked inseparably with Jallianwala Bagh, because he was the man who took his revenge on General O’Dwyer, the British officer who had ordered firing on a peaceful gathering at Amritsar on a Baisakhi Day. Thousands of men, women, children and old men died in the massacre. Many tried to escape...

Ram Prasad Bismil   India : A Great Revolutionary Born : AD 1897                    Died : AD 1927 Ram Prasad Bismil spent his entire life for the cause of India’s freedom. At a very early age, he plunged into India’s freedom struggle. He took to the armed revolution when Bhai Parmanand was hanged in 1916. When Ram Prasad was in eighth class, the Indian National Congress session was held in Lucknow....

Chandra Shekhar Azad   India : A Revolutionary Born : AD 1905           Died : AD 1931 Chandra Shekhar Azad will always remain immortal in the annals of history as a man who sacrificed his life on the altar of freedom. At a time when Gandhiji was busy with his Non-Violence Movement to liberate the country, a couple of fiery youngmen were dubious of his methods. They were sure, the best...

Ras Behari Bose   India : A Great Revolutionary Born : AD 1886                    Died : AD 1945 Ras Behari Bose is remembered with reverence as he was one of the great revolutionaries. He was of the opinion that only violence can force the British to leave India. He was a militant. He wanted the British to leave not only India but Asia also. Ras Behari was involved in 1912 bomb...

Khudi Ram Bose   India : A Young Revolutionary Born : AD 1889           Deed : AD 1908 Bengal has produced many revolutionaries, patriots, nationalists and leaders. Khudi Ram Bose was a revolutionary. For a revolutionary there was no joy in life except the hangman’s noose round his neck for the cause of freedom of his motherland. Khudi Ram was a living example of this sacrifice. An inborn patriot, Khudi Ram...

T.S. Eliot   England : Poet and Writer Born : AD 1888           Died : AD 1965 T.S. Eliot was born in America but he came to England and lived in England all his life. He was educated at various places in England and on the European continent. He knew French and English and was a master of French language, English literature and history. As is usually the case with writers,...