V. O. Chidambaram Pillai biography: born in 1872, the Tamil lawyer launched an Indian shipping company against the British monopoly in 1906…
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 biography: born in 1858, the orator and journalist of the Lal-Bal-Pal trio was a leader of the Swadeshi movement…
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 biography: born in 1897, the young ascetic led the hill tribes of Andhra in the Rampa Rebellion against British…
Kamala Nehru biography: born in 1899, the wife of Jawaharlal Nehru and mother of Indira Gandhi led women in the freedom movement…
Devika Rani biography: born in 1908, the actress and studio head known as the First Lady of Indian Cinema co-founded Bombay Talkies…
V. Shantaram biography: born in 1901, the director and producer of Duniya Na Mane and Do Aankhen Barah Haath made socially conscious…
Dr. Rajkumar biography: born in 1929, the actor and singer known as Annavru was the cultural icon of Karnataka, starring in more…
Savitri biography: born in 1935, the actress known as Mahanati was the greatest star of Telugu and Tamil cinema in the 1950s…
