Showing posts with label Famous Person. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Famous Person. Show all posts

Sunday, September 17, 2006

Dr. Rajendra Prasad


Dr. Rajendra Prasad was born in Zeradei village in Saran dist of Bihar on December 3, 1884.His father name was Mahadev Sahai and mother name was Kamleswari Devi.At the age of five, the young Rajendra Prasad was sent to a maulvi for learning Persian. After that he was sent to Chappra Zilla School for further primary study.
Rajendra prashad was married when he was barely 12 years old to Rajvanshi Devi. He then went on to study at R.K. Ghosh's Academy in Patna to be with his older brotherMahendra Prasad. Soon afterward, however, he rejoined the Chhapra Zilla School, and it was from there that he passed the entrance examination of Calcutta University, at the age of 18. He stood first in the first division of that examination. He joined the Presidency College in 1902. He passed in 1915 with a Gold medal in Masters in Law examination with honors. He went on to complete his doctorate in Law.
Dr. Prasad called for non-cooperation in Bihar as part of Gandhiji's non-cooperation movement. Dr. Prasad gave up his law practice and started a National College near Patna, 1921.In July 1946, when the Constituent Assembly was established to frame the Constitution of India, Dr. Rajendra Prasad was elected its President. Two and a half years after independence, on January 26, 1950, the Constitution of independent India was ratified and Dr. Rajendra Prasad was elected the nation's first President. 1962, after 12 years as President, Dr. Prasad retired, and was subsequently awarded the Bharat Ratna, the nation's highest civilian award.Satyagraha at Champaran" (1922), "India Divided" (1946), his autobiography "Atmakatha" (1946), "Mahatma Gandhi and Bihar, Some Reminisences" (1949), and "Bapu ke Kadmon Mein" (1954) these were his some famous book written by him . Dr. Prasad spent the last few months of his life in retirement at the Sadaqat Ashram in Patna. He died on February 28, 1963.

Swami Viveka Nand


Swami Vivekanand was born in Calcultta on 12th January 1863 .His child hood name was Narendra Nath. His mother call him by "Vireshwar".His parents name were Bhuvaneshwari Devi and Vishwanath Datta.He was very sharp child and a natural leader.He would give anything he had if asked for.Narendra performed well in sports and studies.
Vivekanand started studying in college after he passed the matriculation exam. He read books on philosophy, religion, history, creation, science and western philosophy. He asked more and more questions about Religion and God. No body was able to satisfy him.In early 1882, he went his friends to Dakhsineshwar, to meet Sri Ramkrishna Paramahans. Paramahans was the priest at the Kali temple.By the time he completed his BA, he had also become the best disciple of Shri Pramhans.
In 1886, Sri Ramkrishna left this world. Narendra became a monk and was named "Vivekanand". He then started travelling to spread the knowledge and teachings of his Guru. He travelled to many parts of India likeVrindavan, Ayodhya, Varanasi, Jaipur, Ajmer, Hyderabad, Madras, Mysore and Kanyakumari.

In 1893, Swami Vivekanand earned International Recognition as he represented Hinduism at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago. He founded Brooklyn Naitik Sabha and Vedanta Society in New York. He has also written speeches on different aspects of Yoga published in three different volumes titled Rajyoga, Karmayoga and Jnanayoga. Swami Vivekanand died on 4th July 1902 at Calcutta.

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.