110th Birth Anniversary Of Amrita Sher-Gil: The National Gallery of Modern art in association with Liszt Institute, Hungarian Cultural Centre, New Delhi celebrated the 110th birth anniversary of Amrita Sher-Gil. Amrita was an Indian-Hungarian painter and one of the avant-garde women artists. Though her art education was from Paris, she has discovered the artistic traditions […]
Category: Important Personalities
Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
Swami Sahajanand Saraswati: The Union Home Minister will take part in a celebration commemorating farmer leader Swami Sahajanand Saraswati’s birth anniversary in Patna, Bihar. Swami Sahajanand Saraswati was an ascetic, a nationalist and a peasant leader of India. Although born in present-day UP, his social and political activities focussed mostly on Bihar in the initial […]
International conference on the contributions of J C Bose
International conference on the contributions of J C Bose: Ministry of Culture organized an “International conference on the contributions of J C Bose” on his 164th birth anniversary (1858-1937). J C Bose discovered wireless communication and was named the Father of Radio Science He invented Crescograph to measure plant growth He did pathbreaking work on […]
Sir CP Ramaswamy Iyer
Sir CP Ramaswamy Iyer: Senior BJP leader Prakash Javadekar and state education minister V Sivankutty traded allegations over erstwhile Travancore Diwan Sir CP Ramaswamy Iyer. About Sir CP Ramaswamy Iyer: From 1936 to 1947, Sir Chetput Pattabhiraman Ramaswamy Iyer/Sir CP was the Diwan of the old Travancore princely state. His policies led to a massive […]
Ela Ramesh Bhatt : Gandhian Activist
Ela Ramesh Bhatt : Gandhian Activist Ela Ramesh Bhatt, popularly known as Elaben, a noted Gandhian, leading women’s empowerment activist, and renowned founder of the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) passed away recently. Born in Ahmedabad in 1933, she studied law and joined the legal cell of the Majur Mahajan Sangh or the Textile Labour Association […]
Arattupuzha Velayudha Panicker
Arattupuzha Velayudha Panicker: The recently-released Malayalam film Pathonpatham Noottandu (‘Nineteenth Century’), directed by Vinayan, has earned both critical acclaim and audience approval. It is based on the life of Arattupuzha Velayudha Panicker, a social reformer from the Ezhava community in Kerala who lived in the 19th century. Born into a well-off family of merchants in […]
Mary Roy
Mary Roy: Mary Roy, educator and women’s rights activist, died at the age of 89. She is known for winning a Supreme Court lawsuit in 1986 against the gender biased inheritance law prevalent within the Syrian Malabar Nasrani community of Kerala. The judgement ensured equal rights for Syrian Christian women as with their male siblings […]
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev: Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader who brought the Cold War to a peaceful end, has died aged 91. Mikhail Gorbachev (1931 – 2022) was a Russian and Soviet politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union. As the country’s head of state from 1988 to 1991, he served as […]
150th Birth Anniversary Of Shri Aurobindo Ghosh
150th Birth Anniversary Of Shri Aurobindo Ghosh: To commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Shri Aurobindo Ghosh, the central government is holding spiritual programmes from August 12 to August 15, 2022, across 75 prisons in India. About Sri Aurobindo: In Pondichéry he founded a community of spiritual seekers, which took shape as the Sri Aurobindo […]
Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray
Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray: Ministry of Culture organised a curtain raiser for two days International Conference on the “Contributions of Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray as a Chemist and Freedom Fighter” at the Department of Chemistry, Delhi. The Conference will be held on the 161st birth anniversary of Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray on 2nd-3rd August 2022, […]
