98 Notable alumni of
Banaras Hindu University
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Banaras Hindu University is 609th in the world, 119th in Asia, and 9th in India by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 98 notable alumni from Banaras Hindu University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Bhupen Hazarika
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- music directorpoliticianwritercomposerfilm director
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Bhupen Hazarika BR, widely known as Sudha Kontho, was an Indian singer, songwriter, writer, filmmaker and politician from Assam. He has written songs mainly in the Assamese language, which are marked by humanity and universal brotherhood. His songs have been translated into many languages, most notably in Bengali and in Hindi.
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Jagjivan Ram
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- politician
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Jagjivan Ram, popularly known as Babuji, was an Indian independence activist and politician who served as a minister with various portfolios for over 30 years, making him the longest-serving Union Cabinet minister in Indian history. He also served as the Deputy Prime Minister of India from January 1979 to July 1979. He played a pivotal role as the Defence Minister of India during the Indo-Pak War of 1971, which led to the creation of Bangladesh. As Union Agriculture Minister during two separate tenures, he contributed significantly to the Green Revolution and the modernization of Indian agriculture, particularly during the 1974 drought when he was entrusted with addressing a severe food crisis.
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Ram Manohar Lohia
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- freedom fighterpoliticianeconomist
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Ram Manohar Lohia was an Indian freedom fighter of the Indian independence movement and a socialist politician. As a nationalist, he worked actively to protest against colonialism, raising awareness of the same. He founded multiple socialist political parties and later won elections to the Lok Sabha.
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M. S. Golwalkar
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- writerreligious leader
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Madhav Sadashivrao Golwalkar, popularly known as Guruji, was the second Sarsanghchalak ("Chief") of the Hindutva organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Golwalkar is considered one of the most influential and prominent figures among Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh by his followers.
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Nikesh Arora
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- scientist
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Nikesh Arora is an Indian-American business executive. He has been the chairman and chief executive officer of the American cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks since June 2018. Arora was formerly a senior executive at Google and president of SoftBank Group from October 2014 to June 2016. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, his net worth was estimated at $1.5 billion in early 2024.
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Robert M. Pirsig
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- philosopherwriterautobiographernovelist
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Robert Maynard Pirsig was an American writer and philosopher. He is the author of the philosophical books Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (1974) and Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (1991), and he co-authored On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Selected and Unpublished Writings (2022) along with his wife and editor, Wendy Pirsig.
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Manoj Sinha
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- politician
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Manoj Sinha is an Indian politician serving as the 2nd and the current lieutenant governor of Jammu and Kashmir. He served as the minister of state for Communications (independent charge) and minister of state for Railways in the government of India. Sinha was elected as member of parliament in the Lok Sabha, representing Ghazipur parliamentary constituency for three terms from the Bharatiya Janata Party. Sinha was in the race for the post of UP chief minister after 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election.
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Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao
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- physicistchemistresearcher
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Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao,, is an Indian chemist who has worked mainly in solid-state and structural chemistry. He has honorary doctorates from 86 universities from around the world and has authored around 1,800 research publications and 58 books. He is described as a scientist who had won all possible awards in his field except the Nobel Prize.
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Jayant Vishnu Narlikar
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- university teacherastronomerastrophysicistscience fiction writer
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Jayant Vishnu Narlikar FNA, FASc, FTWAS is an Indian astrophysicist and emeritus professor at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA). He developed with Sir Fred Hoyle the conformal gravity theory, known as Hoyle–Narlikar theory. It synthesises Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and Mach's principle. It proposes that the inertial mass of a particle is a function of the masses of all other particles, multiplied by a coupling constant, which is a function of cosmic epoch.
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Mannu Bhandari
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- writernovelistplaywright
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Mannu Bhandari was an Indian author, screenplay writer, teacher, and playwright. Primarily known for her two Hindi novels, Aap Ka Bunty (Your Bunty) and Mahabhoj (Feast), Bhandari also wrote over 150 short stories, several other novels, screenplays for television and film, and adaptations for theater. She was a pioneer of the Nayi Kahani movement in Hindi literature, which focused on the aspirations of the emerging Indian middle class, and her own work is notable for its depiction of the inner lives of middle class working and educated women. Her work tackles themes of family, relationships, gender equality, and caste discrimination in India.
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Sameer
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- screenwriterlyricistsongwriter
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Shitala Pandey, better known as Sameer Anjaan or Sameer, is an Indian lyricist, known for writing songs predominantly for Bollywood films. He is a Guinness World Record holder for writing the most songs.
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Harivansh Narayan Singh
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- journalistpolitician
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Harivansh Narayan Singh is an Indian journalist and politician serving as Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament. He is an MP in the Rajya Sabha representing the state of Bihar.
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Manoj Tiwari
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- actorpoliticiansingertelevision presenterfilm director
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Manoj Kumar Tiwari is an Indian politician, singer and actor serving as a Member of Parliament from North East Delhi since 2014. He contested the 2009 general election as a Samajwadi Party candidate from Gorakhpur Lok Sabha but lost to Yogi Adityanath. Again, he contested 2014 Indian general elections as a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate and won. He was appointed as Delhi BJP president in 2016. He was the head of the BJP organisation in Delhi when the party recorded a record victory in 2017 MCD elections.
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Raj Narain
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- politician
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Raj Narain was an Indian freedom fighter and politician. He won in a famous electoral malpractice case against the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, which led to her disqualification and imposition of the Emergency in 1975. He defeated Gandhi during the 1977 Lok Sabha elections.
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Krishan Kant
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- politician
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Krishan Kant was an Indian politician who served as the vice president of India from 1997 until his death in 2002. Prior to his vice presidency, Kant was the governor of Andhra Pradesh from 1990 to 1997. He was a member of both houses of the Indian Parliament, representing Chandigarh in the Lok Sabha from 1977 to 1980, and Haryana in the Rajya Sabha from 1966 to 1977.
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Raimon Panikkar
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- university teacherCatholic priesttheologianwriterphilosopher
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Raimon Panikkar Alemany, also known as Raimundo Panikkar and Raymond Panikkar, was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest and a proponent of Interfaith dialogue. As a scholar, he specialized in comparative religion.
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Mahendra Nath Pandey
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- politician
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Mahendra Nath Pandey is an Indian politician who was Minister of Heavy Industries and Minister for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship of India and Member of Lok Sabha for Chandauli from 2014 to 2024. He is a member of Bharatiya Janata Party and was the president of the party's Uttar Pradesh unit. He has also served as Union Minister of State for Ministry of Human Resource Development between 2016 and 2017. He is a member of Modi's second ministry. On 30 May 2019, he was appointed as Cabinet minister for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Government of India.
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Vinod Kumar Bansal
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- teacher
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Vinod Kumar Bansal or VK Bansal was an Indian educationist and the founder of the Bansal Classes in Kota, Rajasthan. He made Kota famous throughout India for IIT-JEE entrance exam preparation.
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Om Prakash Rawat
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- civil servant
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Om Prakash Rawat is a retired 1977 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Madhya Pradesh cadre who served as 22nd Chief Election Commissioner of India. He has also served as one of the two Election Commissioners of India and the Public Enterprise Secretary of India.
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B. P. Koirala
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- writerpolitician
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Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala, better known as B. P. Koirala (Nepali: बीपी कोइराला), was a Nepali revolutionary, political leader, and writer. He was the Prime Minister of Nepal from 1959 to 1960. He led the Nepali Congress, a social democratic political party. He was the grandfather of Bollywood actors Manisha Koirala and Siddharth Koirala, the elder brother of former prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala and the younger brother of former prime minister Matrika Prasad Koirala.
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Koenraad Elst
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- anthropologistorientalistjournalistphilosophercolumnist
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Koenraad Elst is a Flemish author, known primarily for his adherence to the Hindutva ideology and support of the Out of India theory, which is regarded as pseudo-historical by mainstream scholarship. Scholars accuse him of harboring Islamophobia.
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Namvar Singh
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- writer
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Namvar Singh was an Indian literary critic, linguist, academician and theoretician. He received his doctorate degree from Banaras Hindu University where he also taught for some time. He served as a professor of Hindi literature in several other universities. He was the founder and first chairman of Jawaharlal Nehru University's Centre of Indian Languages and continued to remain as a professor emeritus after his retirement in 1992.
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Janaki Ballav Patnaik
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- politician
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Janaki Ballabh Patnaik was an Indian politician who had been 25th Governor of Assam from 2009 to 2014. A leader of the Indian National Congress, he was Chief Minister of Odisha from 1980 to 1989 and again from 1995 to 1999, holding that post for the longest time on record before Naveen Patnaik. In 1950, he became the President of the Odisha state unit of the youth wing of the Congress. In 1980, he became the Union Minister for Tourism, Civil Aviation and Labour from 16 January to 7 June.
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Lalji Singh
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- biologist
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Lalji Singh was an Indian scientist who worked in the field of DNA fingerprinting technology in India and pioneer of Assisted reproductive technology, where he was popularly known as the "Father of Indian DNA fingerprinting". Singh also worked in the areas of molecular basis of sex determination, wildlife conservation forensics and evolution and migration of humans. In 2004, he received the Padma Shri in recognition of his contribution to Indian science and technology.
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Surya Pratap Shahi
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- politician
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Babu Shri Surya Pratap Shahi is an Indian politician. He is a Member of 9th, 11th, 13th, 17th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh and 18th Uttar Pradesh Assembly. Currently he is serving as Cabinet Minister in Uttar Pradesh Government with the portfolio of Agriculture, Agriculture Education and Agriculture Research. He has worked as the president of Uttar Pradesh state unit in the past. He is one of those distinguished BJP leaders who won election in 1985 despite sympathy wave after assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984.
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Vibhuti Narayan Singh
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- Sanskrit scholar
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Maharaja Vibhuti Narayan Singh was the king of Benares, a city considered holy, located in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. He was the last Bhumihar Brahmin king of the Kingdom of Kashi.
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Deepak Ahuja
- Enrolled in Banaras Hindu University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in ceramic engineering
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- engineer
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Deepak Prabhu Ahuja is an Indian-American financial executive working in the life sciences industry who previously worked in the automotive manufacturing industry. He is best known for being the former CFO of Tesla.
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Vina Mazumdar
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- university teachersociologist
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Dr. Vina Mazumdar was an Indian academic, left-wing activist and feminist. A pioneer in women's studies in India, she was a leading figure of the Indian women's movement. She was amongst the first women academics to combine activism with scholarly research in women's studies. She was secretary of the first Committee on the Status of Women in India that brought out the first report on the condition of women in the country, Towards Equality (1974). She was the founding Director of the Centre for Women's Development Studies (CWDS), an autonomous organisation established in 1980, under the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR). She was a National Research Professor at the Centre for Women's Development Studies, Delhi.
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K. N. Govindacharya
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- politician
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Kodipakam Neelameghacharya Govindacharya is a founder Bharat Vikas Sangam, Eternal Hindu Foundation and Rastriya Swabhiman Andolan, Formally Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh pracharak, environmental activist, social activist, political activist and thinker. He was associated with Bharatiya Janata Party but is now a staunch critic of that party as much as he is a critic of the Indian National Congress.
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Shyama Charan Shukla
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- politician
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Shyama Charan Shukla was an Indian National Congress politician and thrice Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.
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Sandeep Pandey
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- social worker
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Sandeep Pandey is an Indian social activist and the present General Secretary of the Socialist Party (India). He co-founded Asha for Education with Dr. Deepak Gupta (presently Professor at IIT Kanpur) and V.J.P Srivastava while working on his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught as a visiting professor at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, NALSAR University of Law and Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi.
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Kashinath Singh
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- writernovelistpoet
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Kashinath Singh is an Indian writer and scholar of Hindi language and known for writing novels and short stories in Hindi. He was formerly a professor of Hindi literature in Banaras Hindu University. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2011 for his novel Rehan Par Ragghu, and is considered one of the best chroniclers of the city of Varanasi. He has recently received 'Bharat Bharti Award', the state's highest literary award given by U.P. government.
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Colin Turnbull
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- ethnologistcuratorethnomusicologistanthropologistuniversity teacher
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Colin Macmillan Turnbull was a British-American anthropologist who came to public attention with the popular books The Forest People (on the Mbuti Pygmies of Zaire) and The Mountain People (on the Ik people of Uganda), and one of the first anthropologists to work in the field of ethnomusicology.
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Acharya Kuber Nath Rai
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- 1933-1996 (aged 63)
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- author
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Kuber Nath Rai, also written as Kubernath Ray and Kuber Nath Ray, was a writer and scholar of Hindi literature and Sanskrit.
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Kapila Vatsyayan
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- politicianart historianauthor
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Kapila Vatsyayan was a leading scholar of Indian classical dance, art, architecture, and art history. She served as a member of parliament and bureaucrat in India, and also served as the founding director of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts.
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Man Mohan Adhikari
- Enrolled in Banaras Hindu University
- Studied in 1942
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- civil servantpolitician
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Man Mohan Adhikari was the 31st Prime Minister of Nepal from 1994 to 1995, representing the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist). He was the first communist Prime Minister in Nepal and one of the first communist politician in the world to be democratically elected as a head of government.
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Satya Vrat Shastri
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- 1930-2021 (aged 91)
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- translatorliterary scholarpoetacademicuniversity teacher
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Satya Vrat Shastri was an Indian Sanskrit scholar, writer, grammarian and poet. He wrote three Mahakavyas, three Khandakavyas, one Prabandhakavyas and one Patrakavya and five works in critical writing in Sanskrit. His important works are Ramakirtimahakavyam, Brahattaram Bharatam, Sribodhisattvacharitam, Vaidika Vyakarana, Sarmanyadesah Sutram Vibhati, and "Discovery of Sanskrit Treasures" in seven volumes.
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Dev Kant Baruah
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- journalistpolitician
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Dev Kant Barooah was an Indian politician from Assam, who served as the 83rd President of the Indian National Congress during the Emergency from 1975 to 1978 and the seventh Governor of Bihar from 1971 to 1973. He also served as union cabinet minister for Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas in Second Indira Gandhi ministry from 5 February 1973 to 10 October 1974. He was a member of the 1st Lok Sabha and 6th Lok Sabha. the elder brother of famous assamese poet, Navakanta Barua and the first Assamese person to become the President of the Indian National Congress.
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Chantal Maillard
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- translatorpoetuniversity teacherwriterphilosopher
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Chantal Maillard is a contemporary Belgo-Spanish poet and philosopher.
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Bhupi Sherchan
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- poet
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Bhupendra Man Sherchan, popularly known as Bhupi Sherchan was a Nepali poet and academician. He is one of the most beloved and widely read Nepali poets. He was awarded the Sajha Puraskar for his 1969 poetry collection Ghumne Mech Mathi Andho Manche, which remains his most popular work.
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Vishwanath Tripathi
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- 1931-.. (age 94)
- Occupations
- writer
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Vishwanath Tripathi is a Hindi writer. He has around 20 publications to his credit which include literary criticism, memoirs and poetry collection.
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Radha Burnier
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- writerfilm actor
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Radha Burnier was born in Adyar, India. She was president of the Theosophical Society Adyar from 1980 until her death in 2013. She was General Secretary of the Indian Section of the Society between 1960 and 1978, and was previously an actress in Indian films and Jean Renoir's The River.
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Kedar Pandey
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- politician
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Kedar Pandey was an Indian freedom fighter and Indian National Congress politician, who remained the Chief Minister of Bihar from March 1972 to 2 July 1973 and Minister of Railways in the Union Cabinet from 12 November 1980 to 14 January 1982 in the Government of India.
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K. L. Shrimali
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- politician
- Biography
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Kalu Lal Shrimali was a parliamentarian, educationist, and author, who served as the 2nd Union Minister of Education for Government of India.
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Gurumukh Nihal Singh
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- 1895-1969 (aged 74)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gurmukh Nihal Singh was the first Governor of Rajasthan and second Chief Minister of Delhi from 1955 to 1956 and was a Congress leader. He was the successor of Brahm Prakash and assumed office in 1955 just for one year. The noted journalist and editor of The Statesman, Surendra Nihal Singh (1929-2018) was Gurmukh Nihal Singh's son.
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Sandeep Das
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- composerpercussionist
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Sandeep Das is an Indian tabla player and composer currently based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
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Prahalad Chunnilal Vaidya
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- 1918-2010 (aged 92)
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Prahalad Chunnilal Vaidya, was an Indian physicist and mathematician, renowned for his instrumental work in the general theory of relativity. Apart from his scientific career, he was also an educationist and a follower of Gandhian philosophy in post-independence India, specifically in his domicile state Gujarat.
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Tapan Singhel
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- businesspersonchief executive officer
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Tapan Singhel is an Indian insurance executive that has been the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Bajaj Allianz General Insurance company since April 2012.
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Sarat Chandra Sinha
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- politician
- Biography
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Sarat Chandra Sinha was an Indian politician and Chief Minister of Assam. He was a leader of Indian National Congress, Indian National Congress (Socialist) and Nationalist Congress Party.
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Sahu Ramesh Chandra Jain
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- philanthropist
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Sahu Ramesh Chandra Jain was a leading mediaperson, philanthropist, promoter of Indian literature, and a prominent member of the Jain religion. He was a descendant of the well-known Sahu Jain family of Najibabad (Bijnor District, Uttar Pradesh).
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Anil Bhardwaj
- Enrolled in Banaras Hindu University
- 1987-2002 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
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- astronomerphysicistresearcher
- Biography
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Anil Bhardwaj is an Indian astrophysicist. He is the director of the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), which is a unit of the Department of Space of Government of India in Ahmedabad, India.
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Pulickel Ajayan
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- 1962-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- engineerresearcher
- Biography
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Pulickel Madhava Panicker Ajayan, known as P. M. Ajayan, is the Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Engineering at Rice University, Houston. He is the founding chair of Rice University's Materials Science and NanoEngineering department and also holds joint appointments with the Department of Chemistry and Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Prior to joining Rice, he was the Henry Burlage Professor of Material Sciences and Engineering and the director of the NYSTAR interconnect focus center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute until 2007. Known for his pioneering work of designing and carrying out the first experiments to make nanotubes intentionally.
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Nagendra Kumar Singh
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- agronomist
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Nagendra Kumar Singh is an Indian agricultural scientist. He is presently a National Professor Dr. B.P. Pal Chair and JC Bose National Fellow at ICAR-National Institute for Plant Biotechnology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. He was born in a small village Rajapur in the Mau District of Uttar Pradesh, India. He is known for his research in the area of plant genomics, genetics, molecular breeding and biotechnology, particularly for his contribution in the decoding of rice, tomato, wheat, pigeon pea, jute and mango genomes and understanding of wheat seed storage proteins and their effect on wheat quality. He has made significant advances in comparative analysis of rice and wheat genomes and mapping of genes for yield, salt tolerance and basmati quality traits in rice. He is one of the highest cited agricultural scientists from India for the last five years.
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Tiruppattur Venkatachalamurti Ramakrishnan
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- physicistuniversity teacheracademic
- Biography
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Tiruppattur Venkatachalamurti Ramakrishnan FRS is an Indian theoretical physicist known for his contributions in condensed matter physics. He is at present DAE Homi Bhabha Professor of Physics at Benaras Hindu University and also the chancellor of Tripura University.
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Rewa Prasad Dwivedi
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- writer
- Biography
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Rewa Prasad Dwivedi was a Sanskrit scholar, poet, writer, teacher, and critic. His original works include poetry as epics and lyrics, plays, and prose. He wrote the new literature under the pseudonym "sanatana", meaning 'the eternal'. He is also known as 'Acharya' Dwivedi ('the scholar' or 'the expert' Dwivedi).
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Amitabha Singh
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- film directorfilm producercinematographer
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Amitabha Singh is an Indian cinematographer and producer known for the film Khosla Ka Ghosla and the award-winning Chillar Party, among others. The Good Road, a 2013 film he produced, fetched numerous accolades and was screened at various international film festivals. It was also nominated as India's official entry in the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 86th Academy Awards. It won the award for Best Gujarati film at the 60th National Film Awards. Singh started his career in 1994. In 2016, he launched the social enterprise Cinevidya, which organizes workshops and festivals to expose children to filmmaking tools and techniques.
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Sonam Topgyal
- Occupations
- researcher
- Biography
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Sonam Topgyal was Prime Minister (officially Kalön Tripa) of the Central Tibetan Administration (Tibetan government-in-exile). He held the position from 1996 to 2001.
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Ashok Agarwal
- Born in
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India - Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Ashok Agarwal is the Director of the Andrology Center, and also the Director of Research at the American Center for Reproductive Medicine at Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, USA. He is Professor at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, USA. Ashok is a Senior Staff in the Cleveland Clinic's Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute. He has published extensive translational research in human infertility and assisted reproduction.
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Shankar Dayal Singh
- Occupations
- authorpolitician
- Biography
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Litterateur and parliamentarian Shankar Dayal Singh was twice elected to the Parliament of India. He was one of the youngest members of the Fifth Lok Sabha, in which he represented the Chatra parliamentary constituency in Bihar (now in Jharkhand). Contesting his maiden Lok Sabha election in 1971, he defeated Smt. Vijaya Raje, the wife of Sri Kamakhya Narayan Singh, Raja of Ramgarh. He was again elected to the upper house, the Rajya Sabha, in 1990 from Bihar.
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Samir Kumar Saha
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Samir Kumar Saha is an eminent Bangladeshi microbiologist and public health expert. He is the professor, senior consultant and head of the department of Diagnostic Division of Microbiology at the Dhaka Shishu Hospital for children and also the executive director of The Child Health Research Foundation (CHRF) at the Bangladesh Institute of Child Health.
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Kameshwar C. Wali
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Kameshwar C. Wali was an Indian-born American theoretical physicist who was the Distinguished Research Professor of Physics Emeritus at Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences. He was a specialist in high energy physics, particularly symmetries and dynamics of elementary particles, and the author of Chandra: A Biography of S. Chandrasekhar and Cremona Violins: a physicist's quest for the secrets of Stradivari.
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Modadugu Vijay Gupta
- Occupations
- biologist
- Biography
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Dr. Modadugu Vijay Gupta is an Indian biologist and fisheries scientist. He was awarded the World Food Prize in 2005, for development and dissemination of low-cost techniques for freshwater fish farming (using tilapia species) by the rural poor. He is considered a pioneer in the blue revolution of Southeast Asia. In 2015, was selected for the first Sunhak Peace Prize, in recognition of his creating an aquaculture system for the poor, rural populations in Asia, Africa and the Pacific.
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Anand Mohan
- Occupations
- earth scientistgeologist
- Biography
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Anand Mohan is registrar of Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra (India) and former professor at Department of Geology, Banaras Hindu University. He is a scientist in the field of geology, petrology and mineralogy. He is a member of XII Five Year Plan (2012–2017) of Planning Commission sub-committee on "Strengthening Community Engagement in Higher Education Institutions". He is also expert reviewer for earth sciences at Union Public Service Commission, India. He is Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences, India (FASc) and National Academy of Sciences, India (FNASc).
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Selina Sharma
- Years
- 1970-.. (age 55)
- Occupations
- musicologist
- Biography
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Selina Sharma is an Italian-born Indian musicologist and vocalist. Her theoretical work concentrates on South Asia, in particular on the devotional music tradition of the Vraja region, the Bauls of Bengal as well as on the philosophical and spiritual aspects of music. Currently she is the Vice-Secretary and Academic Director of Vraja Kala Sanskriti Sansthana (Institute of Vraja Art and Culture) at Vrindaban.
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Gauri Shankar Pandey
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Shri Gauri Shanker Pandey, was a veteran Indian politician and a former Minister of Bihar. He represented Bettiah constituency in Bihar assembly and served in various ministerial portfolios.
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Kamal Dixit
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Kamal Mani Dixit was the founder and chair of the Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya library and the Madan Puraskar award. He was the author of numerous Nepali books and made important contributions to Nepali literature.
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Godey Murahari
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Godey Murahari in Jamshedpur was former Deputy Speaker of 6th Lok Sabha and Member of Lok Sabha, Parliament of India. He was also member of Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh from 1962 to 1977 and Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman from 1972 to 1977. He belongs to Perike (Puragiri Kshatriya) caste. He died in 1982.
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Saket Kushwaha
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Saket Kushwaha is an Indian educationist and Agricultural economist. He is serving as Vice Chancellor (VC) of University of Ladakh and former Vice Chancellor of Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh and Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Bihar. He is a Professor of Agricultural Economics at the Banaras Hindu University, on lien.
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Kamanio Chattopadhyay
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Kamanio Chattopadhyay is an Indian materials engineer and an honorary professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. He is the chair of the Mechanical Sciences Division of IISc and a former chair of the Department of Materials Engineering.
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Shyam Sunder Surolia
- Occupations
- politicianphilosopher
- Biography
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Pandit Shyam Sunder Surolia was an Indian freedom fighter since 1934. Then a 14-year-old child, he raised his voice against the feudal powers of the state of Rajasthan.
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Anil Srivastava
- Born in
- India
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Anil Srivastava is an Indian politician and district president of the Indian National Congress, Varanasi.His political party is the Indian National Congress.
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Lal Mani Joshi
- Occupations
- pedagogue
- Biography
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Lal Mani Joshi was a Buddhist scholar and professor of comparative religions and Buddhist studies in a number of distinguished universities of India and USA.
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Narayanprasaddasji Swami
- Occupations
- religious leader
- Biography
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Narayanprasaddasji Swami, also known as Tapomurti Shastri Swami and Guruji by his devotees, was one of the most noted swamis of the Swaminarayan Sampraday. He has been called one of the most legendary Hindu saints of India.
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Anil Karanjai
- Years
- 1940-2001 (aged 61)
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Anil Karanjai was an accomplished Indian artist. Born in East Bengal, he was educated in Benaras, where his family settled subsequent to the Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. As a small child he had spent long hours playing with clay to make toys and arrows. He also began very early to draw animals and plants, or whatever inspired him. In 1956 he dropped out of school to become a full-time student at Bharatiya Kala Kendra, headed by Karnaman Singh, a master of the Bengal school and a Nepali by origin. This teacher encouraged Anil to experiment widely and to study the art of every culture. Anil remained here until 1960, exhibiting regularly and teaching other students. During the same period, he practised miniature painting at Bharat Kala Bhavan (Benaras Hindu University) under the eye of the last court painter to the Maharaja of Benaras. He also enrolled at Benaras Polytechnic to learn clay modelling and metal casting.
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Raghunath Prasanna
- Years
- 1913-1999 (aged 86)
- Occupations
- musicianflautist
- Biography
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Pandit Raghunath Prasanna was an Indian classical shehnai and flute player. He was known for using the techniques of shehnai in flute playing inspired by vocal music.
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Ragini Trivedi
- Occupations
- musicologist
- Biography
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Ragini Trivedi is an Indian classical musician performing on vichitra veena, sitar and jal tarang. Daughter of the vichitra veena player and musicologist Lalmani Misra, she is an exponent of Misrabani and is the creator of a digital music notation system called Ome Swarlipi.
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Ved Kumari Ghai
- Occupations
- Sanskrit scholar
- Biography
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Ved Kumari Ghai was an Indian Sanskrit scholar from Jammu City, Jammu and Kashmir. She was head of the Sanskrit department in Jammu University.
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Amod Prasad Upadhyay
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Amod Prasad Upadhyay is a Nepalese social worker and politician.
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Ram Badan Singh
- Born in
- India
- Occupations
- biologist
- Biography
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Ram Badan Singh is an Indian agricultural scientist, academic and the chancellor of the Central Agricultural University.
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Krishna Chandra Sharma
- Years
- 1923-2003 (aged 80)
- Occupations
- politiciannovelist
- Biography
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Krishna Chandra Sharma, also known as Bhikkhu, was an Indian radio broadcaster and author. He was the Director General of All India Radio from 1980 to 1981. He was a noted novelist and wrote over twenty literary works in his lifetime.
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Satchit Rana
- Years
- 1934-2007 (aged 73)
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Satchit Shamsher Jung Bahadur Rana was the 34th Chief of Army Staff of the Royal Nepalese Army. He was a member of the Rana Dynasty of Nepal.
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B. L. Deekshatulu
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Bulusu Lakshmana Deekshatulu is an Indian academic who has made important contributions to Digital Image Processing and Control Theory. He is a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences, Fellow of Indian National Science Academy, The National Academy of Sciences, India, Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and IEEE.
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Ramachandra Behera
- Occupations
- writershort story writer
- Biography
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Ramachandra Behera is an Odia story writer, novelist, dramatist and lecturer. He received the state sahitya academy award for his novel "Abhinayara Paridhi" in 1993.
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Arvind Mohan Kayastha
- Occupations
- agronomistbiochemist
- Biography
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Arvind Mohan Kayastha is an Indian Biologist in the field of plant biochemistry and enzyme technology. He is a Professor at the School of Biotechnology, Banaras Hindu University and was the coordinator of the School of Biotechnology. He is a fellow of National Academy of Sciences, India, National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and National Academy of Medical Sciences.
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Damodar Hota
- Occupations
- music educatorcomposer
- Biography
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Pandit Damodar Hota was an Indian classical vocalist, musicologist, composer, and guru based in Odisha, India. He was an exponent of Hindustani classical music as well as Odissi classical music (Udra Paddhatiya Sangita).
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Awadh Kishore Narain
- Occupations
- historianauthornumismatist
- Biography
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Awadh Kishore Narain was an Indian historian, numismatist and archaeologist, who published and lectured extensively on the subjects related to South and Central Asia. He was well known for his book, The Indo-Greeks, published by Clarendon Press in 1957, in which he discussed the thesis of British historian Sir William Woodthorpe Tarn.
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Rabindra Nath Upadhyay
- Occupations
- social worker
- Biography
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Rabindra Nath Upadhyay was an Indian social worker, Gandhian and the founder of Tamulpur Anchalik Gramdan Sangha (TAGS), a non governmental organization working for the social development of the rural people in the Kumarikata village of Assam. He was a recipient of the 2003 Jamnalal Bajaj Award. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian award of the Padma Shri, in 2000, for his services to the society.
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A. K. Mukherjee
- Occupations
- academicbiologist
- Biography
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Ashis K. Mukherjee is an Indian biochemist specializing in snake venom biochemistry, molecular biology and microbiology. He served as the Head of the Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of Tezpur University during 2008– 2011. Known for his research on snake venom biochemistry, proteomic composition and other proteins related work from microbial and plant background, Mukherjee serves as the head and coordinator of the Nodal Center for Medical Colleges and Biomedical Research Institutes of North East India at Tezpur University. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, for his contributions to biosciences, in 2013. Mukherjee has also received the Visitor's Award 2018 for research in the fields of basic and applied sciences from the President of India.
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B.C. Nirmal
- Years
- 1952-.. (age 73)
- Occupations
- author
- Biography
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B C Nirmal born 19 February 1952, is an Indian Professor of Law specialized in International law, Human rights. He has 42 years teaching and research experience in law, and has played a role in the overall development of the BHU Law School. He was vice chancellor at National University of Study and Research in Law, Ranchi, Jharkhand. Before that, he was Head and Dean of Law School, Banaras Hindu University (Varanasi). He has also been the Vice-President of Indian Society of International Law (ISIL, New Delhi), Vice President of All India Law Teachers Congress, Member of Executive Council, Indian Society of International Law, New Delhi and Member of Governing Council of Indian Law Institute, New Delhi. He has also been a Member of the Academic Council of Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Deen Dayal University, Gorakhpur. Before he took on the post of vice chancellor, he was a member of the Academic Council and honorary professor at Gujarat National Law University, Gujarat. He has written on Public International Law, Human Rights, Humanitarian Law, Refugee Law, International Space Law, Intellectual Property Law, International Institutional Law, International Environmental Law and Legal Education.
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Mandagere Subbarao Krishnamurthy
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Mandagere Subbarao Krishnamurthy, known by the pen name Indiresh or Ma Su Krishnamurthy, is an Indian Kannada writer and Hindi writer.
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Sri Niwas
- Years
- 1945-2012 (aged 67)
- Occupations
- physicistgeophysicist
- Biography
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Sri Niwas was an Indian geophysicist and a professor at the Department of Earth Sciences of the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. He was known for his researches on the Inversion of Geophysical Data. He was an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz. Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, India as well as Indian Geophysical Union and was an elected member of the Association of Exploration Geophysicists. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary Sciences in 1991.
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Tapan Sinha
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Surgeon Vice Admiral Tapan Sinha, SM is the Director General Medical Services of the Indian Navy and a former Additional Director General Armed Forces Medical Services.
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Laxmi Ganesh Tewari
- Occupations
- musicologistethnomusicologist
- Biography
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Pandit Laxmi Ganesh Tewari is a Hindustani vocalist from India. He is an exponent of the Gwalior gharana (tradition) of vocal music. After studying with Lalmani Misra at Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, he pursued education and teaching opportunities in America. At Sonoma State University since 1974, his career has combined performance, scholarship and teaching.
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Achal Das Bohra
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Achal Das Bohra was an Indian engineer, academician, author, educator and philanthropist. Bohra, affectionately known as "Papaji" and "Bohra Saab", was a leader of the Pushkarna Brahmin community in Rajasthan and a tireless advocate of women's rights and the balance of modernity and traditional Hindu philosophical thought.
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Surendra Nath Pandeya
- Years
- 1939-2012 (aged 73)
- Occupations
- chemist
- Biography
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Professor Surendra Nath Pandeya was an Indian medicinal and organic chemist. He made several contributions in the design and discovery of anticonvulsant, antitubercular, anti-HIV, anti-cancer, antibacterial, and antimicrobial molecules. His research focused on semicarbazones, Mannich bases, thiadiazoles, benzothiazoles, and oxindole compounds.
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Prabhat C. Chandra
- Occupations
- geophysicistphysicistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Prabhat C Chandra is an Indian geophysicist. Since 1973, he has done extensive work in the field of hydrogeophysics, encompassing groundwater exploration, development and management with a specialization in groundwater geophysics using various geophysical methods.
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Vinodini Terway
- Years
- Died in 2002
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Vinodini Tarway was a female Indian academic, born in the heritage city of Gaya, Bihar.
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Mahendra Shukla
- Occupations
- cricketer
- Biography
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Mahendra Shukla is a former Indian first-class cricketer.
