SWAMI
VIVEKANANDA - Philosopher and Religious Leader.
Founder of the Ramakrishna Mission.
He came to be known as Swami Vivekananda only when
he became a sannyasi or monk. His parents called
him Narendra. His father Vishwanatha Datta was a
lawyer. Narendra was born on 12th January 1863 in
Calcutta. As a child he was very lively and naughty.
Even as a child Narendra had great respect for sannyasis
or ascetics. He would give away anything to anybody
if asked for. The spirit of sacrifice and renunciation
was already blossoming in him.
Narendra excelled not only in sports; he was quick
and alert in his studies as well. After a single
reading he could remember any lesson. His memory
was amazing. Concentration was the key to his success
in studies. By 1880, Narendra passed his Matriculation
and Entrance Examination. He joined a college. Day
by day, his thirst for knowledge increased. He was
particularly fascinated by the secrets of God's.
creation. Apart from history and science, he was
well read in Western philosophy. As he advanced
in his studies, his thinking faculty developed.
Doubts and uncertainties overtook him. He gave up
blind beliefs but could not realize the Truth.
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SUBHASH
CHANDRA BOSE - Militant Freedom Fighter &
Founder of the Indian National Army.
Netaji's life
1897: Born to Sri Janaki Nath Basu and Pravabati
Devi in Cuttack, Orissa
1913: Stood second in the School leaving
examination and took admission in Presidency college,
Calcutta.
1915: Passed Intermediate examination in
first division.
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DR.
RAJENDRA PRASAD - Freedom Fighter & The
First President of the Republic of India.
Dr. Rajendra Prasad, son of Mahadev Sahai, was born
in Zeradei village in Bihar on December 3, 1884.
Rajen was a brilliant student throughout school
and college. He stood first in the entrance examination
of the University of Calcutta and was awarded a
Rs. 30 per month scholarship. It was first time
that a student from Bihar had excelled. He joined
the Calcutta Presidency College in 1902.
The partition of Bengal in 1905 fueled the swadeshi
and boycott movements. The movements had a deep
effect on students in Calcutta. One day, residents
of his hostel created a bonfire of all the foreign
clothing they had. When Rajen went through his belongings
he could not find a single item of foreign clothing.
In 1915, Rajen passed the Masters in Law examination
with honors, winning a gold medal. He then completed
his Doctorate in Law to attain the title, Dr. Rajendra
Prasad.
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LAL
BAHADUR SHASTRI - Freedom Fighter and the Second
Prime Minister of India.
Lal Bahadur Shastri was born in 1905 in Prayag.
His father Sharada Prasad, a schoolteacher at the
local school, passed away when Lal Bahadur was barely
a year and a half. Growing up without a father forced
Lal Bahadur to accept responsibility at an early
age. He was sent by his uncle to Varanasi to pursue
his studies.
After a short stay with a family that treated him
unkindly, Lal Bahadur stayed with a teacher, Mishraji.
Mishraji often sat and told stories about how India
lost her freedom to the British to young Lal Bahadur.
These conversations later inspired Lal Bahadur to
join the struggle for Indian freedom.
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AMITABH
BACHCHAN - Bollywood Filmstar of Great Fame.
Voted the "Man of the Millenium" by BBC.
The Superstar. The Mega star. The Mr. Bollywood.
Mr. Big B.
Amitabh has been the lifeline of bollywood for over
two decades. Rejected at his first screen test,
Amitabh bounced back with a vengeance in his 1973
hit Janzeer. That film established him as the angry
young man of Hindi films. Amitabh never looked back
after that. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, any
film that had Amitabh in it, was a stupendous success
(give or take a couple!).
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VINOD
DHAM - Hardware Genius & Creator of Super-fast
Computer Processors.
Vinod Dham known as the Father of Pentium is the
CEO of Silicon Spice Inc. In 1975, the Indian born
Vinod Dham arrived in the U.S. on an engineering
scholarship at the University of Cincinnati, with
less than $10 in his pocket. His first job at NCR
was in 1977, working for the memory design group.
Impressed with his paper on reprogrammable memory,
Intel took him on.
As the leader of Intel's Pentium team in the early
1990s he earned the sobriquet of "Father of
the Pentium" Later he quit to join a start
up, Nexgen.Nexgen, which was targeting the Intel-clone
market, was later acquired by Advanced Micro Devices
in 1995 for about $500 million. Three years later,
AMD's K6 chip, based on the Nexgen technology, has
become a major irritant for Intel. These two achievements
alone have made Dham somewhat of a star in the clandestine
world of chip design.
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