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Habib Rahman, the architect of independent India was one of the visionaries who laid the foundation of the architectural vocabulary of independent India by playing a pivot role in shaping the modern architecture of Delhi. Habib Rahman, the inscriber of…

Jayant Pandurang Naik, also known as J. P. Naik (September 5, 1907 – August 30, 1981) was an Indian educator. A great humanist, freedom fighter, polymath, encyclopedic thinker and socialist educationist. Recognized by the UNESCO alongside Rabindranath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi as three pioneering…

Mogubai Kurdikar (15 July 1904 – 10 February 2001) was a renowned Hindustani classical music vocalist of the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana. Mogu Kurdikar was born in the village of Kurdi in the then Portuguese Goa. In 1913, when she was ten years old, her mother, Jayashreebāi, took her to…

Chintamoni Kar (19 April 1915 – 3 October 2005) was a renowned Indian sculptor. He received civilian awards from the Indian and French governments and won an Olympic silver medal on behalf of Great Britain. Born on 19 April 1915 in Kharagpur, West Bengal, Kar trained…

Vasant Shankar Huzurbazar (15 September 1919 – 15 November 1991) was an Indian statistician from Kolhapur. Huzurbazar was the founder head of the department of statistics, University of Pune from 1953 to 1976.From 1979 to 1991, he served as professor at University of Denver, Colorado until his death. He served as…

Devanahalli Venkataramanaiah Gundappa, popularly known as DVG, was a Kannada writer and philosopher. His most notable work is the Mankuthimmana Kagga ("Dull Thimma's Rigmarole", 1943), which is similar to the wisdom poems of the late medieval poet Sarvajna. He also wrote Srimad BhagavadGeeta Tatparya, also known as Jeevana…

Dhirendra Nath Ganguly (26 March 1893 – 18 November 1978), better known as Dhiren Ganguly or D.G, was a Dadasaheb Phalke Award-winning and Padma Bhushan recipient film entrepreneur/actor/director of Bengali Cinema. He had set up a number of film production companies: Indo British Film company, British Dominion Films, Lotus Film Company.…

Camille Bulcke (1 September 1909 – 17 August 1982) was a Belgian Jesuit missionary in India, who attained pre-eminence in the Hindilanguage and came to be known as "India's most famous Christian Hindi scholar" Camille Bulcke was born in Ramschapelle, a village in Knokke-Heist municipality in the Belgian…

Alice Boner

By F5 Buddy, In Padma Bhushan

Alice Boner (July 22, 1889 – April 13, 1981) was a Swiss painter and sculptor, art historian, and an Indologist. She completed her training as a painter and sculptor in Munich, Brussels and Basel, where she studied with Paul Burkhardt. In her drawings she used pencil, charcoal,…

K.Sukumaran

By F5 Buddy, In Padma Bhushan

K. Sukumaran (8 January 1903 – 18 September 1981), was the Editor of Kerala Kaumudi Daily, the third most circulated newspaper in Malayalam which celebrated its centenary in 2011. He served as the President of Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam…