Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Dhiru Bhai Ambani

Dhiru bhai Ambani was born on 28 dec 1932 at Chorwad, Gujarat, into a Modh family. His full name was Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani .His father was a school teacher.
After completing his matriculation at the age of 16, Dhirubhai moved to Yemen. He worked there as a gas-station attendant, and as a clerk in an oil company. He returned to India in 1958 with Rs 50,000 to full fill his dream and set up a textile trading company.Helped by his two sons, Mukesh and Anil, Dhiru Bhai Ambani built India's largest private sector company, Reliance India Limited, from a scratch.
1992 was important for him because in 1992, Reliance became the first Indian company to raise money in global markets, its high credit-taking in international markets limited only by India's sovereign rating. Reliance also became the first Indian company to feature in Forbes 500 list.Dhirubhai Ambani was named the Indian Entrepreneur of the 20th Century by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). Reliance the greatest creator of wealth in the century.Dhiru bhai created wealth for his investor for company.Dhirubhai Ambani died on July 6, 2002, at Mumbai at the age of 69 years.

NARAYAN MURTI

NARAYAN MURTI
Narayana Murthy had a very humble beginning. His father was a school teacher in the Kolar district of Karnataka. Born on August 20, 1946. He grew up to acquire a degree in Electrical Engineering from Mysore University, and later went on to study Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur.In 1981, Narayana Murthy founded Infosys Technologies along with six of his friends.In the year ending March, 2000, the company earned $61.3 million on sales of $203.4 million. Infosys has done well not only in the domestic stock markets but also in the international markets. Infosys is the first Indian company to be listed in the U.S. NASDAQ. He was selected as one of the 50 most powerful people in Asia for the year 2000 in a poll conducted by Asiaweek. In 1998, he was awarded the prestigious J.R.D. Tata Corporate Leadership Award .He has also served, from 1992 to 1994, as the President of National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM). He has also served, since 1998, as a director of Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL). He is a Fellow of the All India Management Association (AIMA).

SUBHASH CHANDRA BOSE

SUBHASH CHANDRA BOSE
Subhas Chandra Bose was born on January 23, 1897. His father was Rai Bahadur Janakinath Bose, a prominent lawyer of Cuttack, Orissa.After completing his early studies at the European Protestant Collegiate School in Cuttack, he came to Calcutta to study at Presidency College in 1913. Upon completing his graduation, he left India for England to appear at the Indian Civil Service Examination, but he was reluctant to work under the British Government. Thus he resigned and returned to India on the call of Chittaranjan Das.He was elected president of the Indian National Congress in 1938 and 1939.He slipped out of India in 1941 and carried on his struggle against the British from Nazi Germany and later from Southeast Asia. In 1944 he invaded India from Burma (Myanmar) with a small army of Indian nationals and Japanese, but his army was soon forced to retreat. He fled Southeast Asia after the Japanese surrender in 1945 and died of burns suffered in a plane crash. He is believed to have died on 18 August 1945 in a plane crash over Taiwan, however, contradicting evidence exists regarding his death in the accident.

Stamp Collection

Stamp collection is the collecting of postage stamps and related objects, such as covers (envelopes or packages with stamps on them). It is one ofCollecting is not the same as philately, which is the study of stamps.The first postage stamp, the One Penny Black, was issued by Britain in 1840. It pictured a young Queen Victoria, was produced without perforations (imperforate), and consequently had to be cut from the sheet with scissors in order to be used.Some of the more popular collecting areas include:Postage stamps - particular countries and/or time periods .Postal stationerySouvenir sheets.Souvenir sheetsStamp catalogues are the primary tool used by serious collectors to organize their collection, and for the identification and valuation of stamps.Stanley Gibbons (Britain) Scott catalog (USA) Michel (German) Yvert (French)

Vande Materam

Vande Mataram
Vande Mataram
Vande MataramSujalam,
suphalam,malayja shitalam,
ShasyashyamalamMataram!
Vande Mataram!
Shubhrajyotnapulakitayaminim
Phullakusumita drumadalashobhinimSuhasinim
madhurabhashinim,
S khadam varadam,Mataram!
Vande Matram!
English Translation of Vande Matram (By Aurobindo Ghosh)
I bow to thee,
Mother,richly-watered,
richly-fruitedcool with the winds of thesouth,
dark with the crops of theharvests,
The Mother!
Her nights rejoicing in the
glory of the moonlighther lands clothed
beautifullywith her trees inflowering bloomsweet of laughter,
sweet ofspeechThe Mother,
giver of boons,giver of bliss!