Girija Devi is an Indian classical singer of the Banaras gharana. She performs classical and light classical music and has helped elevate the profile of thumri.
Early life
Girija Devi was born in Varanasi,on May 8, 1929. Her father played the harmonium and taught music, and had Devi take lessons in singing ...
Monty Sharma is a music composer from India scoring music for Bollywood. He is popular for being the background music composer for Black (2005) and music director for Saawariya (2007).
Early life
Monty Sharma was born on 17 April 1970 in Mumbai. He started learning music at the age of five and ...
Ghanshyam Das "G.D." Birla (April 10, 1894 – June 11, 1983) was an Indian businessman and member of the influential Birla Family.
Family history
Ghanshyam Das Birla was born on 10 April 1894 at Pilani village, in the Indian state then known as Rajputana, as a member of the Marwari Maheshwari community. ...
Phanishwar Nath 'Renu' was one of the most successful and influential writers of modern Hindi literature in the post-Premchand era. He is the author of Maila Anchal, which after Premchand's Godaan, is regarded as the most significant Hindi novel.
Phanishwar Nath 'Renu' is best known for promoting the voice of the ...
Pran (born Pran Krishan Sikand, 12 February 1920) is a multiple Filmfare and BFJA award-winning Indian actor, known as a movie villain and character actor in Hindi cinema from the 1920s to the 1990s. He has appeared in 350 films. He was referred as the 'Villain of the Millennium'.
In 2010, ...
Swami Vivekananda was an Indian Hindu monk. He was a key figure in the introduction of Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the western world and was credited with raising interfaith awareness, bringing Hinduism to the status of a major world religion in the late 19th century. He was ...
Mahendra Kapoor was an Indian playback singer.
In a career spanning five decades, his repertoire extended to 2500 songs in various regional languages, including popular songs such as ‘Chalo ek baar phir se Ajnabi ban jayen hum dono’ Gumrah, ‘Neele gagan ke taale’ Hamraaz. His name however became most closely associated ...
Atal Bihari Vajpayee is an Indian statesman who was the 10th Prime Minister of India, first for 13 days in 1996 and then from 1998 to 2004. A leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he is the only Prime Minister from outside the Indian National Congress party to serve ...
Chaudhary Charan Singh was the fifth Prime Minister of the Republic of India, serving from 28 July 1979 until 14 January 1980.
Born into a Jat family in 1902, Charan Singh entered politics as part of the Independence Movement. After independence he became particularly notable in the 1950s for opposing and ...
Khanzada Mirza Khan Abdul Rahim Khan-e-Khana also known as Rahim is a renowned composer during the time of Mughal emperor Akbar. He was one of the main nine ministers (Diwan) in his court, also known as the Navaratnas. Rahim is famous for his Hindi couplets and his books on Astrology. ...
