Surendranath Banerjee biography: born in 1848, the teacher and orator founded the Indian Association in 1876, led the campaign against the partition…
Shivaram Rajguru biography: born in 1908 near Pune, the marksman of the HSRA shot the police officer Saunders in Lahore and was…
Bipin Chandra Pal (1858–1932) was a Sylhet-born nationalist and journalist, one of the Lal-Bal-Pal trio, who helped lead the Swadeshi movement and…
Sukhdev Thapar biography: born in 1907, the revolutionary organiser of the HSRA in Punjab was hanged with Bhagat Singh and Rajguru on…
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar biography: born in 1883, the revolutionary who spent ten years in the Cellular Jail later formulated the ideology of…
Alluri Sitarama Raju (1897-1924) led the Rampa rebellion of hill tribes against British rule in the Godavari Agency and was shot at…
Kamala Nehru biography: born in 1899, the wife of Jawaharlal Nehru and mother of Indira Gandhi led women in the freedom movement…
Himanta Biswa Sarma biography: born in 1969, the former Congress minister joined the BJP in 2015, built its base across the North-East…
K. S. Thimayya biography: born in Coorg in 1906, the general took tanks over the Zoji La in 1948, won praise in…
Abdul Hamid (1933-1965) was a Grenadiers havildar killed at Asal Uttar in the 1965 war and posthumously awarded the Param Vir Chakra.…
Arjan Singh (1919–2017) was Chief of the Air Staff in the 1965 war and, in 2002, became the only Indian Air Force…
K. M. Cariappa biography: born in Coorg in 1899, he became the first Indian Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army on 15 January…
