65 Notable alumni of
Panjab University
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Panjab University is 880th in the world, 183rd in Asia, and 17th in India by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 65 notable alumni from Panjab 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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Manmohan Singh
- Enrolled in Panjab University
- In 1952 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in economics
- Occupations
- economistcivil servantpoliticianbanker
- Biography
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Manmohan Singh is an Indian politician, economist, academician and bureaucrat who served as the 13th Prime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014. He is the third longest-serving prime minister after Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi. A member of the Indian National Congress, Singh was the first Sikh and non-Hindu prime minister of India. He was also the first prime minister since Jawaharlal Nehru to be re-elected after completing a full five-year term.
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Sushma Swaraj
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Sushma Swaraj was an Indian lawyer and politician, who served as the Minister of External Affairs of India in the first Narendra Modi government from 2014 to 2019. She was the second person to complete a 5-year term as the Minister of External Affairs, after Jawaharlal Nehru. A senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Swaraj was the second woman to hold the office of Minister of External Affairs, after Indira Gandhi. She was elected seven times as a Member of Parliament and three times as a Member of the Legislative Assembly. At the age of 25 in 1977, she became the youngest cabinet minister of the Indian state of Haryana. She also served as 5th Chief Minister of Delhi for a short duration in 1998 and became the first female Chief Minister of Delhi.
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Kiran Bedi
- Occupations
- writerpoliticiantennis playerpolice officer
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Kiran Bedi, is a former tennis player who became the first woman in India to join the officer ranks of the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1972 and was the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry from 28 May 2016 to 16 February 2021. She remained in service for 35 years before taking voluntary retirement in 2007 as Director General, Bureau of Police Research and Development.
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Kirron Kher
- Occupations
- television actorpoliticianstage actortelevision presenterfilm actor
- Biography
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Kirron Anupam Kher is an Indian politician; theatre, film and television actress; television personality; singer; entertainment producer; and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. In May 2014, she was elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Indian Parliament, from Chandigarh. During her film career, she is the recipient of two National Film Awards and four Filmfare Award nominations.
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Vandana Shiva
- Occupations
- university teacherwriterecofeministpoliticianenvironmentalist
- Biography
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Vandana Shiva is an Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, ecofeminist and anti-globalization author. Based in Delhi, Shiva has written more than 20 books. She is often referred to as "Gandhi of grain" for her activism associated with the anti-GMO movement.
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Gul Panag
- Occupations
- beauty pageant contestantmodelpoliticianactor
- Biography
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Gul Panag is an Indian actress, voice actress, and model. She was crowned Femina Miss India Universe 1999 and represented India at Miss Universe 1999. She began her career in Hindi films with the 2003 film Dhoop directed by Nagesh Kukunoor and since then, she has starred in several films like Jurm along with the TV series Kashmeer.
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Sunil Mittal
- Occupations
- entrepreneurbusinesspersoninternational forum participant
- Biography
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Sunil Bharti Mittal is an Indian billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder and chairman of Bharti Enterprises, which has diversified interests in telecom, insurance, real estate, education, malls, hospitality, Agri and food besides other ventures. Bharti Airtel, the group's flagship company is one of the world's largest and India's largest telecom company with operations in 18 countries across Asia and Africa with a customer base of over 399 million. Bharti Airtel clocked revenues of over US$14.75 billion in FY2016. In 2023 he was ranked the 10th richest person in India by Forbes, with an estimated net worth of US$14.8 billion.
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Romila Thapar
- Occupations
- historianwriteruniversity teacherprofessor
- Biography
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Romila Thapar is an Indian historian. Her principal area of study is ancient India, a field in which she is pre-eminent. Thapar is a Professor of Ancient History, Emerita, at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.
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Jaspal Bhatti
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriteractortelevision presenter
- Biography
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Jaspal Singh Bhatti was an Indian television personality known for his satirical take on the problems of the common man. He is most well known for his television series Flop Show, Full Tension and mini capsules Ulta Pulta which ran on Doordarshan, India's national television network, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He was commonly known as "King of Comedy" and also "King of Satire". He carried out various anti corruption crusades in Chandigarh. His frontal attack on issues like redtapism, nepotism, and corruption was both comic and awakening for masses.
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Sukhbir Singh Badal
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sukhbir Singh Badal is an Indian politician and Sikh rights advocate who served thrice as the Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab and is currently the president of Shiromani Akali Dal, along with being a member of Parliament from the Firozpur Lok Sabha constituency. He is the son of Parkash Singh Badal, who has served five times as the Chief Minister of Punjab. He holds lots of power over the Sikh organizations of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee and the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee. A businessman at heart, Badal and his family have ownership stakes in an array of businesses- including real estate, transport and other activities to promote Punjab's economic condition on a national level.
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Charanjit Singh Channi
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Charanjit Singh Channi is an Indian politician who served as the 16th Chief Minister of Punjab. He is a member of the Indian National Congress. He was also Minister of Technical Education and Training in Second Amarinder Singh ministry and leader of the opposition in the Punjab Legislative Assembly. He was the first Dalit to become the CM of Punjab.
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Shiv Kumar Batalvi
- Occupations
- poetsongwriterwriterlyricist
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Shiv Kumar Batalvi was an Indian poet, writer and playwright of the Punjabi language. He was most known for his romantic poetry, noted for its heightened passion, pathos, separation and lover's agony, due to that he was also called Birha Da Sultan.
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Aditya Puri
- Occupations
- bankerentrepreneur
- Biography
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Aditya Puri is a senior advisor at The Carlyle Group. He was the managing director of HDFC Bank, India's largest private sector bank. He assumed this position in September 1994. Puri was the longest-serving head of any private bank in the country. India Today ranked him at #24 in India's 50 Most Powerful People of 2017 list.
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Satinder Sartaaj
- Years
- 1982-.. (age 42)
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Satinder Pal Singh, popularly known as Satinder Sartaaj, is an Indian singer, songwriter, actor and poet primarily associated with Punjabi songs and films. He gained fame with his song "Sai". Since then he has performed across the world. Sartaaj made his film debut as Maharaja Duleep Singh in The Black Prince in 2017.
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Rajiv Pratap Rudy
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rajiv Pratap Rudy is an Indian politician from the Bharatiya Janata Party, and a Member of Parliament representing Saran (Lok Sabha constituency) in Bihar, India.
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Shekhar Gupta
- Years
- 1957-.. (age 67)
- Occupations
- authorjournalistinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Shekhar Gupta is an Indian journalist and author. He is the founder and the current editor-in-chief of ThePrint. He is also a columnist for the Business Standard and pens a weekly column which appears every Saturday.
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Bhupinder Singh Hooda
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Bhupinder Singh Hooda is an Indian National Congress politician who is the current Leader of the Opposition in Haryana Legislative Assembly. He also served as the Chief Minister of Haryana from 2005 to 2014.
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Jagdish Singh Khehar
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Jagdish Singh Khehar is a former senior advocate and a former judge, who served as the 44th Chief Justice of India in 2017. Khehar is the first chief justice from the Sikh community. He has been a judge in Supreme Court of India from 13 September 2011 to 27 August 2017 upon superannuation. He served for a brief period but gave many landmark judgements such as the Triple Talaq and the Right to Privacy verdict. He was succeeded by Justice Dipak Misra.
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Sunil Arora
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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Sunil Arora was the 23rd Chief Election Commissioner of India. He is also the chairman for Association of World Election Bodies (A-WEB). He is a retired 1980 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Rajasthan cadre. He also served as a secretary to the Government of India in two ministries.
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Anil Vij
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Anil Vij is an Indian politician belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party and Cabinet Minister in the Government of Haryana.
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Narinder Nath Vohra
- Years
- 1936-.. (age 88)
- Occupations
- Indian Administrative Servicecivil servant
- Biography
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Narinder Nath Vohra, popularly referred as N. N. Vohra, is a retired 1959 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Punjab cadre who was the 12th governor of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. He was the first civilian governor of Jammu and Kashmir in eighteen years after Jagmohan.
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Yash Pal
- Occupations
- science communicatorphysicist
- Biography
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Yash Pal was an Indian scientist, educator and educationist. He was known for his contributions to the study of cosmic rays, as well as for being an institution-builder. In his later years, he became one of the leading science communicators of the country.
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Nuruddin Farah
- Occupations
- novelistwriter
- Biography
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Nuruddin Farah is a Somali novelist. His first novel, From a Crooked Rib, was published in 1970 and has been described as "one of the cornerstones of modern East African literature today". He has also written plays both for stage and radio, as well as short stories and essays. Since leaving Somalia in the 1970s he has lived and taught in numerous countries, including the United States, Britain, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Sudan, India, Uganda, Nigeria and South Africa.
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Atul Gurtu
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Atul Gurtu is a high energy physicist in India. He joined the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, in 1971, and retired in 2011 as a senior professor, after a career spanning four decades in particle physics research.
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Ghulam Ahmed Pervez
- Occupations
- theologianexegete
- Biography
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Ghulam Ahmad Parwez was a well-known teacher of the Quran in India and Pakistan. He posed a challenge to the established Sunni doctrine by interpreting Quranic themes with a logical approach. The educated populace held Parwez in high esteem, despite his encounter with numerous criticisms from conservative Islamic scholars throughout his tenure. The work 'Islam: A Challenge to Religion' is widely acknowledged as one of the most significant works in the history of Pakistan, according to Nadeem F. Paracha.
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PL Punia
- Occupations
- politiciancivil servant
- Biography
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Panna Lal Punia, usually known as P. L. Punia, is an Indian politician and Member of the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh from 2014 till 2020. He was member of the Lok Sabha from 2009 to 2014 and represented Barabanki. He is a Dalit leader of the Indian National Congress party. He was also chairperson of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes between 2013 and 2016 and as such sat ex officio on the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).
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Krishan Kant Paul
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- 1948-.. (age 76)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Krishan Kant Paul is a former Indian Police Service officer, who served as the Commissioner of Police, Delhi from February 2004 to July 2007. Following his retirement from the IPS, he served as the governor of several states—Meghalaya (2013–15), Manipur (2014-15) and Uttarakhand (2015–18). He had also held the governorships of Mizoram and Nagaland briefly, as additional charges.
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Sushila Nayyar
- Occupations
- physicianpoliticianteacher
- Biography
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Sushila Nayyar, also spelt 'Nayar', was an Indian physician, a lifelong follower of Mahatma Gandhi, and a politician. She played a leading role in public health, medical education and social and rural reconstruction in India. She became Gandhi's personal physician and an important member of his inner circle. Later, she wrote several books based on her experiences. Her brother, Pyarelal Nayyar, was the personal secretary to Gandhi. In post-Independent India, she contested elections for political office and served as India's health minister.
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Arzu Rana Deuba
- Occupations
- politiciansocial workeractivist
- Biography
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Arzu Rana Deuba is a Nepali social worker, psychologist and politician, currently serving as a Member of Parliament (MP) representing the Nepali Congress Party of Nepal. She had joined the NC in 1996 and was elected Central Committee member of the party since December 2021. In the 2022 Nepalese general election she was elected as a proportional representative from the Khas people category. She is the wife of former PM Sher Bahadur Deuba.
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Ajay K. Sood
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Ajay Kumar Sood is an Indian physicist and researcher currently serving as the 4th Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India.
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Adarsh Kumar Goel
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Adarsh Kumar Goel is an Indian judge. He is Chairperson of National Green Tribunal. He is former judge of the Supreme Court of India. He is also former chief justice of the Orissa High Court and Gauhati High Court, and a former judge of the Gauhati High Court and Punjab and Haryana High Court.
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Pratip Chaudhuri
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- banker
- Biography
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Pratip Chaudhuri, is an Indian Banker. An alumnus of the 1974 batch of University Business School - Chandigarh, he is a former Chairman of State Bank of India. He took charge from O. P. Bhatt, on 7 April 2011 and retired on 30 September 2013. Prior to that he was the Deputy Managing Director (DMD) of the International Division of SBI.
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Vishwanath Tripathi
- Years
- 1931-.. (age 93)
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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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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Anjum Moudgil
- Occupations
- sport shooter
- Biography
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Anjum Moudgil is an Indian sport shooter. She is from Chandigarh and represents Punjab. She is supported by GoSports Foundation through the Rahul Dravid Athlete Mentorship Programme.
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Meenakshi Wadhwa
- Years
- 1968-.. (age 56)
- Occupations
- researcherplanetary scientist
- Biography
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Meenakshi Wadhwa is a planetary scientist and educator who studies the formation and evolution of the Solar System through the analysis of planetary materials including meteorites, Moon rocks and other extraterrestrial samples returned by spacecraft missions. She is director of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University.
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Krishan Chander Singh
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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K.C. Singh is an Indian Civil servant and was the Indian ambassador to Iran and UAE.
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Sardara Singh Johl
- Occupations
- bankerwritereconomist
- Biography
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Sardara Singh Johl is an Indian agriculture economist, writer, politician and the chancellor of the Central University of Punjab. A former National Professor of Agricultural Economics of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, he served as the vice chancellor of the Punjabi University and Punjab Agricultural University during different tenures and chaired the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices set up by the Government of India. He is a former director of the Central Board of Governors of the Reserve Bank of India and a former consultant to international bodies such as Food and Agriculture Organization, World Bank and United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia. The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan, in 2004, for his contributions to Agriculture and agriculture education.
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Ashok Chopra
- Occupations
- autobiographerjournalist
- Biography
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Ashok Chopra is a publisher, author, editor, and literary columnist. Author of Memories of Fire: A Novel, A Scrapbook of Memories: My Life with the Rich, the Famous and the Scandalous and Of Love and Other Sorrows, he has co-authored Agnostic Khushwant: There Is No God with the Indian author-columnist Khushwant Singh and A Grain of Sand in the Hourglass of Time with Arjun Singh, which he completed after his death on March 4, 2011, in 2012. He was executive editor with Vikas Publishing House, vice-president Macmillan India, publishing director UBS Publishers, executive director and publisher of the India Today Book Club and Books Today, as well as chief executive and publisher of HarperCollins Publishers India. Presently, he is the chief executive of Hay House Publishers in India.
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Zahid Abrol
- Years
- 1950-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- writerpoet
- Biography
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Vijay Kumar Abrol,, better known by his pen name Zahid Abrol, is a well-versed Indian Urdu poet. He has done 'the first-ever Urdu translation' of the 12th century Sufi-poet Baba Farid's shlokas and shabads and that too in verse.
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Rachna Singh
- Occupations
- politiciantrade unionist
- Biography
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Rachna Singh is a Canadian politician and trade unionist who has represented the electoral district of Surrey-Green Timbers in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia since 2017. A member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party (BC NDP) caucus, she has served as Minister of Education and Child Care of British Columbia since December 2022.
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Shamsher Singh Dullo
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Shamsher Singh Dullo, is an Indian politician and former Rajya Sabha M.P.
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Kavita Singh
- Years
- 1964-2023 (aged 59)
- Occupations
- art historianwriter
- Biography
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Kavita Singh was an Indian art historian. A professor of art history, she served as the dean at the School of Arts and Aesthetics of Jawaharlal Nehru University.
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Kewal Krishan
- Occupations
- anthropologist
- Biography
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Kewal Krishan, an Indian forensic anthropologist, is a professor of physical anthropology and former Chair of Department of Anthropology at Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. He has contributed to the development of forensic anthropology in India. He is one of the very few forensic anthropology experts of the nation.
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Jagtar
- Occupations
- writerpoet
- Biography
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Jagtar was a Punjabi poet. He was widely credited for being a stickler for meter and rhyme. He was very popular among the politically conscious Punjabi readers having left-wing leanings. In the early period of his popularity he was known by his pen name Jagtar “Papiha” which he later dropped.
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Akram Khan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Akram Khan is an Indian politician, a leader of the Indian National Congress (INC) and the former minister of state for Home, Govt. of Haryana. He became the Deputy Speaker of Haryana for the first time in March 2010. In the Haryana assembly elections of 2009, he became the lone MLA of the BSP in Haryana. Since 1966, he has been the first Muslim deputy speaker of Haryana.
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Hemant Batra
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Hemant Batra is an Indian business, public policy, corporate and commercial senior practicing lawyer, newspaper – columnist writer author, TV anchor/Host, public speaker, commentator (law & public policy), mentor, and legal counsel. He was the co-founder and counsel at Kaden Boriss Global, an alliance and forum of independent and autonomous law firms and legal enterprises. Hemant holds a position as the Secretary General of SAARCLAW (South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation in Law). SAARCLAW is a regional Apex body of SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation). He has also authored several books on law and policy. He was engaged by the Lok Sabha as a Guest Anchor and Guide for a fresh series of Sansad TV called `75 Years: Laws That Shaped India' The other Guest Anchors engaged by the Parliament for Sansad TV being Bibek Debroy, Dr Karan Singh, Amitabh Kant, Shashi Tharoor, Maroof Raza and Sanjeev Sanyal. The global TV channel Sansad TV was launched by the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi, Vice President of India Venkaiah Naidu and Speaker of Lok Sabha Om Birla on 15 September 2021.
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Kamaljit S. Bawa
- Enrolled in Panjab University
- In 1967 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in botany
- Occupations
- university teacherbiologistecologist
- Biography
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Kamaljit Singh Bawa, FRS is an evolutionary ecologist, conservation biologist and a distinguished professor of Biology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is also the founder of Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment (ATREE). In 2012, Bawa received the first Gunnerus Sustainability Award, the world's major international award for work on sustainability. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019.
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Jatinder Mauhar
- Occupations
- screenwritercolumnist
- Biography
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Jatinder Mauhar is an Indian Film Director, Script Writer, Columnist and Researcher. In the very beginning, he started his career with music videos and it was after some time that Jatinder Directed his debut film Mitti. Jatinder Mauhar established himself as a style through Mitti, Sarsa appropriated by producer as Sikandar (2013) and Qissa Punjab (2015). He has written extensively about cinema and is one of the best speakers in Punjabi on cinema. He did his professional training in Knitting Technology, and worked in the industry for couple of years before pursuing his interest in cinema. His journey from a keen watcher to filmmaker is punctuated with training in Zee Institute of Media Arts, Mumbai and on job training in making music videos as director. He has written story, screenplay and dialogues of Mitti. In Sarsa he collaborated with Daljit Ami. Jatinder worked on a documentary film on cross-border train Samjhauta Express as a researcher with filmmaker Gerry Troyna For BBC.
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Alka Pande
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Alka Pande is an Indian academic, author and museum curator.
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Jagdish Chandra Kapur
- Occupations
- ecologist
- Biography
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Jagdish Chandra Kapur was an Indian social scientist, entrepreneur and the founder of Kapur Surya Foundation and Kapur Solar Farms. He was also the Editor of World Affairs Journal, a publication aiming at and providing a platform for better interaction between the developed and the developing nations. The Government of India honoured him in 2010, with the Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian award, for his services to the fields of science and technology.
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Harkishan Singh
- Years
- 1928-2020 (aged 92)
- Occupations
- chemist
- Biography
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Harkishan Singh was Professor Emeritus at the Panjab University (Chandigarh, India). He was a well recognized pharmaceutical academic, medicinal chemistry researcher and science historian. He had more than half a century experience in his respective fields to his credit. He worked at the Banaras Hindu University, University of Saugar, and the Panjab University in India, and abroad at the University of Maryland, University of Mississippi and the University of London.
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Amarjit Chandan
- Occupations
- writerpoet
- Biography
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Amarjit Chandan is a Punjabi writer, editor, translator and activist. He has written eight collections of poetry and five collections of essays in Punjabi. He has been called "the global face of modern Punjabi poetry".
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Amit Rawal
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Amit Rawal is an Indian Judge of the Kerala High Court, the highest court in the Indian state of Kerala and in the Union Territory of Lakshadweep, which is headquartered at Ernakulam, Kochi.
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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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Gurpreet Singh Lehal
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Gurpreet Singh Lehal is a professor in the Computer Science Department, Punjabi University, Patiala and Director of the Advanced Centre for Technical Development of Punjabi Language Literature and Culture. He is noted for his work in the application of computer technology in the use of the Punjabi language both in the Gurmukhi and Shahmukhi script.
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Sherub Gyeltshen
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dasho Sherub Gyeltshen is a Bhutanese politician who served as the Minister for Home and Cultural Affairs from November 2018 to 6 May 2021 when he resigned. He was a member of the National Assembly of Bhutan from October 2018 to May 6, 2021.
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Neelkamal Puri
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Neelkamal Puri is an Indian author, columnist and a college teacher. Born in Ludhiana, Punjab, she grew up in the princely state of Patiala, where she did her schooling from the Yadavindra Public School. She was one of the first 30 girls to be admitted to the school, the school being boys only before that. Since 1979, she has worked as a lecturer in English Literature at different colleges in Patiala and Chandigarh. She is currently teaching Literature and Media Studies at the Government College for Girls, Chandigarh.
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Tsering Dhondup
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tsering Dhondup, also known as Tsering Dhundup Yangdhar, is the Minister of Finance of the Tibetan-government-in-exile, officially known as Central Tibetan Administration.
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Ashok Vijh
- Occupations
- chemist
- Biography
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Ashok K. Vijh, is an Indian born Canadian chemist. He was born in Punjab but moved to Canada in 1962.
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Rajesh Bhola
- Occupations
- journalistsocial workerblogger
- Biography
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Rajesh Bhola is a social worker, psychotherapist, journalist, author, columnist and writer on spiritual subjects from India. Bhola also contributes to Inner Voice of the Hindustan Times
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Raj Pathria
- Years
- 1933-.. (age 91)
- Occupations
- authorphysicist
- Biography
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Raj Kumar Pathria is a theoretical physicist, a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at University of Waterloo, and an Urdu poet.
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Bhagwan Singh Josh
- Occupations
- writerhistorian
- Biography
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Bhagwan Singh Josh is an Indian historian, specialising in social and political history of modern India. He is Professor of Contemporary History at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is one of the project committee members of the Europe–South Asia Maritime Heritage Project. He has also been co-director of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) project, History of the Indian National Congress, 1885–1947. He has specialized on the Indian national liberation movement and is considered to be one India's foremost scholars on communist movements in India. His best known book is Struggle for Hegemony in India which combines the various perspectives of India's history—the colonial state, the various political parties, the trade unions, and the mobilization of the work force—to form a cohesive whole on the basis of Antonio Gramsci's hegemonic concepts.
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Bhai Baldeep Singh
- Occupations
- writersingerpoetmusical instrument makerresearcher
- Biography
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Bhai Baldeep Singh is a Ragi known for his Shabad Kirtan.He is a researcher and revivalist for conventional string instruments like Dhrupadi Rabab, Saranda, Tambura (Tanpura), Dilruba used for Sikh music since Guru's Times. He is an accomplished Pakhawaj Mridang Jori player. He is the founder and chairman of Anad Foundation organisation dedicated to Sikh music. He was an unsuccessful candidate of Aam Aadami Party in 2014 general elections for Punjab state of India.
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Ranjay Vardhan
- Occupations
- sociologist
- Biography
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Dr Ranjay Vardhan is an Indian sociologist who is serving as Head, Department of Sociology at the Post Graduate Government College for Girls, Sector 42, Chandigarh. He has developed the concept of Covidalization, i.e., Covid Socialization. He has published works in the field of Family and Gender Studies and has done pioneering works in the field of broken hearts.
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Tenzin Tsetan Choklay
- Occupations
- film director
- Biography
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Tenzin Tsetan Choklay is a Tibetan filmmaker.
