78 Notable alumni of
Savitribai Phule Pune University
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Savitribai Phule Pune University is 713th in the world, 146th in Asia, and 12th in India by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 78 notable alumni from Savitribai Phule Pune 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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Radhika Apte
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- film actorfilm director
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Radhika Apte is an Indian actress. She began acting in theatre and made her film debut with a brief role in the fantasy drama Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi! (2005). Her first lead role was in the 2009 Bengali drama Antaheen. She gained attention for her supporting roles in three of her 2015 Bollywood productions: the revenge drama Badlapur, the comedy Hunterrr, and the biographical film Manjhi - The Mountain Man. Her leading roles in the 2016 independent films Phobia and Parched earned her acclaim.
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Tanushree Dutta
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- modelactorbeauty pageant contestant
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Tanushree Dutta is an Indian former actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Femina Miss India Universe 2004 and then represented her country at Miss Universe 2004 in Ecuador where she placed Top 10.
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Devendra Fadnavis
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- politician
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Devendra Gangadharrao Fadnavis is an Indian politician who is currently serving as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra since 5 December 2024 with Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar as his deputies, and previously held this position for two terms from 2014 to 2019. He previously served as the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, alongside Ajit Pawar in the Eknath Shinde government. Besides this, from 2019 to 2022, he served as the Leader of the Opposition in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He was the President of BJP's Maharashtra state unit from 2013 to 2015. He became Chief Minister at the age of 44, making him the second-youngest in Maharashtra's history after Sharad Pawar.
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Vishwanath Pratap Singh
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- politician
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Vishwanath Pratap Singh was an Indian politician who served as the prime minister of India from 1989 to 1990 and the Raja Bahadur of Manda.
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Pooja Batra
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- modelactorbeauty pageant contestant
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Pooja Batra Shah is an Indian-American actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder. She primarily works in Hindi films. She won the runner-up title at the Femina Miss India contest in 1993 and was crowned Femina Miss India International 1993 and represented India at Miss International 1993.
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Sonali Kulkarni
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- actortelevision actor
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Sonali Kulkarni is an Indian actress, producer, and writer who primarily appears in Marathi, Hindi and few Tamil films. Kulkarni is considered as one of the highest-paid actresses in Marathi cinema, and is a recipient of several accolades including a National Film Award, four Filmfare Marathi Awards and four Maharashtra State Film Awards. She was honoured with V. Shantaram Special Contribution Award in 2010 by the Government of Maharashtra.
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Purushottam Laxman Deshpande
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- film directorscreenwriteractorpoetcomposer
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Purushottam Laxman Deshpande, popularly known by his initials ("Pu. La.") or as P. L. Deshpande, was a Marathi writer and humorist from Maharashtra. He was also an accomplished film and stage actor, script writer, author, composer, musician, singer and orator. He was often referred to as "Maharashtra's beloved personality".
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Cyrus S. Poonawalla
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- businessperson
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Cyrus S. Poonawalla is an Indian billionaire businessman, and the chairman and managing director of the Cyrus Poonawalla Group, which includes the Serum Institute of India, an Indian biotech company which is the largest vaccine manufacturer in the world and Poonawalla Fincorp a leading NBFC in India. In 2022, he is ranked as the 4th richest person in India on Forbes India rich list with a net worth of $24.3 billion. He is ranked number 1 on the Hurun Global Healthcare Rich List 2022.
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Nagraj Manjule
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- screenwriterfilm directoractor
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Nagraj Popatrao Manjule is an Indian film director, actor, producer, scriptwriter, poet, screenwriter, and filmmaker. He works in Marathi cinema, and is best known for Sairat and Pistulya—the latter for which he received National Film Award in the National Film Award for Best First Non-Feature Film of a Director. He made his Hindi Cinema debut in 2022, with a film called Jhund, starring Amitabh Bachchan.
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Mugdha Godse
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- actor
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Mugdha Veira Godse is an Indian actress and model who appears in Hindi films. A former model, Godse was a semi-finalist at the Femina Miss India 2004 competition. She made her acting debut in Madhur Bhandarkar's 2008 film, Fashion. She was one of the judges in a Marathi reality show, Marathi Paul Padte Pudhe. She also acted in Tamil film Thani Oruvan.
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Prakash Javadekar
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- politicianspokesperson
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Prakash Keshav Javadekar is an Indian politician and former parliamentarian. He served as the Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change two times, from May 2014 to July 2016 and from May 2019 to July 2021.
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Kusumagraj
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- lyricistwritersongwriterpoet
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Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar, popularly known by his pen name, Kusumāgraj, was a Marathi poet, playwright, novelist and short story writer, who wrote of freedom, justice and emancipation of the deprived.
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Anjali Patil
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- film directormodelactor
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Anjali Patil is an Indian actress who works in Hindi, Marathi, Telugu and Tamil film productions. She has received several awards including a National Film Award and a Filmfare Marathi Award. She received the IFFI Best Actor Award Silver Peacock Award at the 43rd International Film Festival of India her role in the Sri Lankan film With You, Without You
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Mukta Barve
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- actortelevision actor
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Mukta Barve is an Indian film, television, and theatre actress and a producer. One of the most popular Marathi celebrities, she has established a career in Marathi films. She is a recipient of seven Maharashtra State Film Awards one for Best Debut and other six for Best Actress in different plays and films.
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Shriram Lagoo
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- stage actorfilm actortheatrical director
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Dr. Shriram Lagoo was an Indian film and theatre actor, in Hindi and Marathi, in addition to being an ENT Surgeon. He was known for his character roles in films. He acted in over 250 films including Hindi and Marathi films as well as Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati plays, and directed over 20 Marathi plays. He was also very vocal and active in furthering progressive and rational social causes, for example in 1999, he and social activist G. P. Pradhan undertook a fast in support of anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare. He won the 1978 Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor for the Hindi film Gharaonda. His autobiography is titled Lamaan (लमाण), which means "the carrier of goods".
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Laxman Narasimhan
- Enrolled in Savitribai Phule Pune University
- Studied mechanical engineering
- Occupations
- business executive
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Laxman Narasimhan is an Indian-born American business executive and former chief executive officer (CEO) of Starbucks and Reckitt.
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Sister Shivani
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- nunmotivational speakerteacher
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Shivani Verma, better known as BK Shivani, is a motivational speaker and spiritual mentor representing the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual Organization.
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Jitendra Joshi
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India - Occupations
- actortelevision actor
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Jitendra Joshi is an Indian actor and reality show host who predominantly works in Marathi cinema. He is well known for his lead role as Sant Tukaram Maharaj in the 2012 marathi movie Tukaram. He starred as constable Katekar in the hit Netflix television series Sacred Games.
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Shereen Bhan
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- 1976-.. (age 49)
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Shereen Bhan is an Indian journalist and news anchor who currently serves as the Managing Editor of CNBC-TV18. Bhan took over the role from 1 September 2013 after her predecessor Udayan Mukherjee decided to step down.
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Kaka Kalelkar
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- social reformerjournalisthistorianpedagoguewriter
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Dattatreya Balkrishna Kalelkar, popularly known as Kaka Kalelkar, was an Indian independence activist, social reformer, journalist and an eminent follower of the philosophy and methods of Mahatma Gandhi.
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Agatha Sangma
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- lawyerpolitician
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Agatha Kongkal Sangma is an Indian politician. A former Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha representing the Tura constituency of Meghalaya. At the age of 29, she is the youngest member of parliament ever in India to be appointed Union Minister in Government of India till date. Sangma is the second woman from Northeast India to be appointed a union minister in the Government of India after Renuka Devi Barkataki from Assam. She is a member of National People's Party.
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Girish Bapat
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- politician
- Biography
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Girish Bapat was an Indian politician who served as a member of Parliament in the 17th Lok Sabha. He was elected to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India from Pune, Maharashtra in the 2019 Indian general election as a member of Bharatiya Janata Party. Earlier he served as the Cabinet Minister for Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection, Food and Drugs Administration and Parliamentary Affairs in the First Fadnavis ministry. He was a member of 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly and one of the top Bharatiya Janata Party leaders in Vidhan Sabha. He was elected from Kasba Peth constituency to the Vidhan Sabha in five consecutive elections since 1995.
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Madhav Gadgil
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- professorbiologistecologist
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Madhav Dhananjaya Gadgil is an Indian ecologist, academic, writer, columnist and the founder of the Centre for Ecological Sciences, a research forum under the aegis of the Indian Institute of Science. He is a former member of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India and the Head of the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP) of 2010, popularly known as the Gadgil Commission.
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Prahlad
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- 1950-.. (age 75)
- Occupations
- film directorfilm producerrestaurateur
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Prahlad Kakkar is an Indian ad film director, best known for his work on a Pepsi TV commercial with Amitabh Bachchan and Sachin Tendulkar. He is the founder and main director of Genesis Film Productions, established in 1977.
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Khaled Bahah
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- diplomatpolitician
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Khaled Mahfoudh Bahah is a Yemeni politician and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Yemen between 2014 and 2016, as well as Vice President of Yemen from 2015 until he was dismissed on April 3, 2016, by the former President of Yemen Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi.
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Vijay Kelkar
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- 1942-.. (age 83)
- Occupations
- scientisteconomist
- Biography
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Vijay L. Kelkar is an Indian economist and academic, who is the chairman of the Forum of Federations, Ottawa & India Development Foundation, New Delhi and chairman of Janwani – a social initiative of the Mahratta Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture (MCCIA) in Pune. He has been appointed as a trustee of Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust (Puttaparthi, A.P.) on 4 January 2014. He was also the chairman of the Finance Commission until January 2010. He was earlier advisor to the Minister of Finance (2002–2004), and is known for his role in economic reforms in India. Prior to this, he remained Finance Secretary, Government of India 1998–1999, and in 1999 he has been nominated as Executive director of India, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Sri Lanka on the board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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Suresh Tendulkar
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- economist
- Biography
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Suresh D. Tendulkar was an Indian economist and former chief of the National Statistical Commission. Tendulkar was a member of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC) from 2004 to 2008 and then served as its chairman from 2008 to 2009 when C. Rangarajan vacated the post to enter the Rajya Sabha. He died on 21 June 2011, as a result of cardiac arrest at Prayag Hospital, Pune (India).
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Anjum Rajabali
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- actorscreenwriter
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Anjum Rajabali is a veteran Indian screenwriter and teacher. He has written films like Drohkaal, Ghulam (1998), The Legend of Bhagat Singh (2002) and Raajneeti (2010). He is also known for his leadership and lobbying for the rights of Indian screenwriters, as a senior activist of the Screenwriters Association, India.
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Rima Das
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- film directorfilmmakeractorcinematographerscreenwriter
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Rima Das is an Indian filmmaker best known for her 2017 film Village Rockstars, which won several national and international awards and became India's official entry for the 90th Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category. Chosen out of 28 other entries in India, it was also the first Assamese film to be submitted for Oscars. The film won India's National Award for Best Film and Best Editor.
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A. Sivathanu Pillai
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- electrical engineer
- Biography
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A Sivathanu Pillai is an Indian scientist who formerly served as Honorary Distinguished Professor at Indian Space Research Organisation and an honorary professor at IIT Delhi in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (2015–2016) and a visiting professor at Indian Institute of Science (2014–2015).
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Kiran Nagarkar
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- film screenwriterscreenwriterfilm criticwriterplaywright
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Kiran Nagarkar was an Indian novelist, playwright and screenwriter. A noted drama and film critic, he was one of the most significant writers of post-colonial India.
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Sambhaji Patil Nilangekar
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- politician
- Biography
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Sambhaji Patil Nilangekar is an Indian politician and leader of a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from Maharashtra currently representing Nilanga constituency, Maharashtra as Member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly.
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Thomas Kailath
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- university teachermathematicianacademicelectrical engineer
- Biography
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Thomas Kailath is an Indian born American electrical engineer, information theorist, control engineer, entrepreneur and the Hitachi America Professor of Engineering emeritus at Stanford University. Professor Kailath has authored several books, including the well-known book Linear Systems, which ranks as one of the most referenced books in the field of linear systems.
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Satish Alekar
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- theatrical directoractorplaywright
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Satish Vasant Alekar is a Marathi playwright, actor, and theatre director. A founder member of the Theatre Academy of Pune, and most known for his plays Mahanirvan (1974), Mahapoor (1975), Atirekee (1990), Pidhijat (2003), Mickey ani Memsahib (1973), and Begum Barve (1979), all of which he also directed for the Academy. Ek Divas Mathakade (2012) and Thakishi Samvad (2024) these two recent plays were directed by Nipun Dharmadhikari and Anupam Barve respectively. Along with Mahesh Elkunchwar and Vijay Tendulkar he is considered among the most influential and progressive playwrights in modern Marathi and Indian theatre.
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Farrukh Dhondy
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- journalistscreenwriter
- Biography
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Farrukh Dhondy is an Indian-born British Parsi writer, playwright, screenwriter and left-wing activist who resides in the United Kingdom.
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C. Kumar N. Patel
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- electrical engineerphysicistuniversity teacher
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Chandra Kumar Naranbhai Patel is an electrical engineer. He developed the carbon dioxide laser in 1963; it is now widely used in industry for cutting and engraving a wide range of materials like plastic and wood. Because the atmosphere is quite transparent to infrared light, CO2 lasers are also used for military rangefinding using LIDAR techniques.
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Anil Shirole
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- politician
- Biography
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Anil Shirole, alias Padmakar Gulabrao Shirole,, hails from the Shiledar Shirole (Patil) family. He represented Pune constituency in the 16th Lok Sabha from 2014 to 2019. He was previously a member of Pune's municipal corporation. He completed his graduation in BA from University of Pune.
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Arvind Lal
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- pathologist
- Biography
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Brigadier Arvind Lal is an Indian billionaire, pathologist, medical administrator and the chairman and managing director of Dr Lal PathLabs, a medical diagnostic centre in Delhi. A medical graduate and a medical academic, he is reported to have modernized Indian medical diagnostics and initiated the first Public Private Partnership in the field of laboratory testing in India. He holds the rank of a Brigadier in the Indian Armed Forces, an honorary rank conferred by the Army. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2009, for his contributions to Medicine.
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Ramesh Raskar
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- information scientistuniversity teachercomputer scientist
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Ramesh Raskar is a Massachusetts Institute of Technology associate professor and head of the MIT Media Lab's Camera Culture research group. Previously he worked as a senior research scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories during 2002 to 2008. He holds 132 patents in computer vision, computational health, sensors and imaging. He received the $500K Lemelson–MIT Prize in 2016. The prize money will be used for launching REDX.io, a group platform for co-innovation in Artificial Intelligence. He is well known for inventing EyeNetra (mobile device to calculate spectacle glasses prescription), EyeCatra (cataract screening) and EyeSelfie (retinal imaging), Femto-photography (trillion frames per second imaging) and his TED talk for cameras to see around corners.
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Ranjan Mathai
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- diplomat
- Biography
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Ranjan Mathai is an Indian civil servant of the IFS cadre who was a former Indian Foreign Secretary and Indian High Commissioner to the UK. Prior to this, he served as Foreign Secretary of India from 1 August 2011 to 31 July 2013.
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Padmanabhan Balaram
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- 1949-.. (age 76)
- Occupations
- biochemist
- Biography
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Padmanabhan Balaram is an Indian biochemist and a former director of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India. He is a recipient of the third highest Indian civilian honour of Padma Bhushan as well as the TWAS Prize (1994). He has been conferred the 2021 R. Bruce Merrifield Award by the American Peptide Society.
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Mangesh Hadawale
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- film director
- Biography
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Mangesh Hadawale is an Indian film writer-director and ad-film maker. His first film Tingya (2008, Marathi) received huge commercial as well as critical acclaim. Dekh Indian Circus, his second film, was in Hindi and won various national and international awards.
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Mohan Dharia
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Mohan Dharia was a Union minister, a lawyer and social worker. During his last days he stayed in Pune. Dharia was an environmentalist and ran a non-government organisation Vanarai. He was elected to the Lok Sabha twice from Pune Lok Sabha constituency, first in 1971 as an Indian National Congress (INC) member and became a Minister of State, and later in 1977 as a Bharatiya Lok Dal member, and joined the Morarji Desai Ministry as Union Minister of Commerce. Prior to it, he remained member of the Rajya Sabha twice from INC, first 1964-1970 and then 1970- 1971
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Aruna Ramchandra Dhere
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- writer
- Biography
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Aruna Ramchandra Dhere is a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India. She was the President of the 92nd Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan held at Yavatmal in 2019.
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Anand Bhate
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- 1971-.. (age 54)
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Anand Bhate is an Indian classical vocalist from the Kirana gharana. He is popular for his classical singing of songs from the Marathi film Balgandharva (2011).
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Narasimha Chintaman Kelkar
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- editorteacherpoliticianwriterpublisher
- Biography
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Narasimha Chintaman Kelkar, popularly known as Sahityasamrat Tatyasaheb Kelkar (24 August 1872 – 14 October 1947), was a lawyer from Miraj as well as a dramatist, novelist, short story writer, poet, biographer, critic, historian, writer on philosophical and political themes. He was born in Chitpavan Brahmin family. He was a literary and political figure in Maharashtra, India, and also both editor and trustee of the newspaper Kesari. He served as editor twice when Tilak was imprisoned in 1897 and 1908.
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Dilip Walse-Patil
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dilip Datta Walse is an Indian politician, from Ambegaon, Maharashtra, and a seven-time Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). He is a minister in the Government of Maharashtra, since July 2023. He previously served as the Minister of Home Affairs in the Government of Maharashtra. He formerly headed the Ministry of Finance and Planning, Energy Ministry, Higher and Technical Education Ministry, and Medical Education Ministry, all as a Cabinet Minister from 1999 to 2009.
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Nirmala Deshpande
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- authorpolitician
- Biography
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Nirmala Deshpande was a noted Indian social activist who had embraced Gandhi and philosophy. She devoted her adult life to the promotion of communal harmony and service to women, tribal people, and the dispossessed in India.
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Anand Modak
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- composeractor
- Biography
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Anand Modak was an acclaimed Marathi film composer and music director in Marathi cinema and Marathi theatre, known for his experimental style. His notable films include 22 June 1897 (1979), Kalat Nakalat (1989), Chaukat Raja (1991), Mukta (1994), Doghi (1995), Rao Sahab (1996), Sarkarnama (1997), Tu Tithe Mee (1998), Harishchandrachi Factory (2009), and Samaantar (2009). In theatre, his notable compositions were for Mahanirvan, Mahapoor, Kheliya, Raigadala Jeva Jag Yete, Begum Barve, Chaukatcha Raja and Mukta.
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Vinay Kumar
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- pathologist
- Biography
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Vinay Kumar is the Lowell T. Coggeshall Distinguished Service Professor of Pathology at the University of Chicago, where he was also the Chairman (2000-2016) of the Department of Pathology. He is a recipient of Life Time Achievement Award by National Board of Examinations.
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Datto Vaman Potdar
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- writerhistorianeditor
- Biography
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Dattatray Vaman Potdar, better known as Datto Vaman Potdar, was an Indian historian, writer, and orator. He was the Vice-Chancellor of University of Pune during 1961 - 1964.
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Parmjeet Parmar
- Years
- 1970-.. (age 55)
- Occupations
- politicianpolitical candidate
- Biography
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Kushmiita Parmjeet Kaur Parmar is a New Zealand politician.
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Nikhil Kanetkar
- Occupations
- badminton playerOlympic competitorbadminton coach
- Biography
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Nikhil Kanetkar is an Indian former badminton player from Pune.
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Rashid Askari
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Harun-Ur-Rashid Askari, known as Rashid Askari, is a writer, columnist, media personality, and an academic in Bangladesh. He was the 12th vice-chancellor of Islamic University, Bangladesh. He served as the Director General of the Bangla Academy for less than a month in 2024. Among post-1990s Bangladeshi writers, He is easily on par with the major ones who gained identical and impressive mastery over both Bangla and English.
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Prerana Deshpande
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- choreographerdancer
- Biography
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Prerana Deshpande is a recognized Indian exponent of Kathak dance.
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Shaiju Mathew
- Occupations
- writerfilm director
- Biography
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Shaiju Mathew is an Indian–Canadian author, screenplay writer, movie reviewer and director, known for his 2010 book Knocked Up. Knocked Up is set to become a feature film in Hindi, with Mathew co-producing. A Marathi movie Timepass loosely based on Knocked Up released in February 2014. The film was the highest grossing Marathi film until the release of Lai Bhaari in the same year, which broke its record. Andhra Pori starring Puri Akash son of Puri Jagannadh is also based on Mathew's novel Knocked Up.
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Kaivalya Kumar Gurav
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Pandit Kaivalya Kumar Gurav is a third generation singer from the Kirana Gharana of Indian classical music.
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Amina Salum Ali
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Amina Salum Ali is a Tanzanian politician. She is the African Union former Ambassador to the United States since 2007. Succeeded by Arikana Chihombori Quao who became the second African Union Ambassador to the United States of America in 2017. Now, in 2016 she was appointed the Minister of Trade, Industry and Marketing, in the Zanzibar Government.
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Raji Arasu
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 76)
- Occupations
- computer scientistengineer
- Biography
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Raji Arasu is an Indian American technology executive. She currently is the executive vice president and chief technology officer of Autodesk, where she drives the company's technology strategy to accelerate connectivity, intelligence, and productivity for customers, partners, and development teams. Previously as SVP of Platform Engineering at Intuit, Raji helped shape the platform strategy and technology culture, led the company's cloud transformation, and expanded foundational core capabilities that amplified innovation for customers.
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Mohan Deep
- Occupations
- biographer
- Biography
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Mohan Deep, is an Indian writer. He has written multiple books on Bollywood film personalities, including the books: The Mystery and Mystique of Madhubala, Simply Scandalous: Meena Kumari, and Eurekha!: The Intimate Life Story of Rekha (an unauthorised biography of Rekha). In recent years, he has focused on writing fiction. Two of his novels are The Five Foolish Virgins (2013) and Color Me Rich (2016).
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Uday Salunkhe
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Dr. Uday Salunkhe is the director of the Welingkar Institute of Management Development & Research, Mumbai and Bangalore. He is the chairman of Ad Hoc Board of Studies in Management Courses of Mumbai University and Chairman of the Local Management Committee of Association of Management Development Institutions in South Asia – a SAARC initiative. He took over as the President of Association of Indian Management Schools (AIMS) for year 2007–2008. AIMS is the 2nd largest body of management schools in the world with more than 500 member. His work is strongly influenced by the likes of Jack Welch and Arya Chanakya.
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Gauri Pathare
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Gauri Pathare is an Indian musician and a winner of the All India Radio competition.
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Nandini Nimbkar
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Nandini Nimbkar is an agricultural scientist from India, and currently the President of the Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute. She is the daughter of B. V. Nimbkar and granddaughter of Irawati Karve and Kamala Nimbkar.
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Yogesh Moreshwar Joshi
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- chemical engineer
- Biography
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Yogesh Moreshwar Joshi is an Indian chemical engineer, rheologist and the Mr. & Mrs. Gian Singh Bindra Chair Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He is known for his studies on metastable soft matter and is an elected fellow of the Society of Rheology, Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences,The National Academy of Sciences, India, and Indian National Academy of Engineering. In 2015, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded Joshi the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology for his contributions to Engineering Sciences. In 2023, he received prestigious J C Bose fellowship constituted by the Science and Engineering Research Board, Government of India.
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Teotonio de Souza
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- historianauthor
- Biography
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Teotónio Rosário de Souza was a Portuguese historian and the founder-director of the Xavier Centre of Historical Research (XCHR), at Alto Porvorim, Goa. Based in Portugal since 1995, de Souza was Head and chair, Department of History in the Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias from 1999 to 2014. He was also a fellow of the Portuguese Academy of History since 1983, and of the Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa since 2000.
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Shridhar Ramachandra Gadre
- Occupations
- chemist
- Biography
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Shridhar Ramachandra Gadre is an Indian scientist working in computational quantum and theoretical chemistry.
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Muhammad Hashim Gazdar
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Muhammad Hashim Gazdar was one of the three representatives from Sindh to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan, and the second Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan.
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Shaikh Abdus Salam
- Occupations
- writeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Shaikh Abdus Salam is a Bangladeshi academic, writer sports organizer and professor. He was the 13th vice chancellor of the Islamic University serving during 2020–2024. He was a professor of University of Dhaka.
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Faisal Hawar
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Faisal Ahmed Yusuf "Hawar" is a Somali Entrepreneur. He is the CEO/President and co-founder of the International Somalia Development Foundation as well as the Maakhir Resource Company.
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K. M. Phadke
- Occupations
- psychologist
- Biography
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Kishor Moreshwar Phadke, also known as K. M. Phadke, was an Indian psychologist, and practitioner and trainer in Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT). He held M.A. degree in psychology from Pune University. He is first Indian psychologist who enjoys the unique distinction of being a fellow and supervisor of the Albert Ellis Institute in New York City. He is best known as a pioneer of REBT in India. Due to his distinguished contributions to REBT, Indian psychologists consigned a unique title to his therapy – Ellis-Phadke therapy. He has authored nine Marathi books, several popular articles and papers and co-authored five English books.
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Sheetal Agashe
- Enrolled in Savitribai Phule Pune University
- Graduated with Master of Business Administration
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- actor
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Sheetal Dnyaneshwar Agashe is an Indian businesswoman and former actress, who has served as managing director of Brihans Natural Products since 2013, for which she has received various accolades, including a Times Visionary Award, a Femina Pune's Most Powerful Award, and two Times Women of the Year Awards. A former actress, she had a recurring role from 1999 to 2003 on the sitcom Yes Boss (1999–2009), and a leading role in the independent film Minus One (2005).
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Amol Redij
- Occupations
- author
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Amol Redij is author, poet, and creative content designer from Maharashtra, India. He was awarded Literoma Author Achiever Award 2021.
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Deepak T. Nair
- Occupations
- academic
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Deepak Thankappan Nair is an Indian Structural Biologist and a scientist at Regional Centre for Biotechnology. He is known for his studies on DNA and RNA polymerases. Deepak was a Ramanujan fellow of the Science and Engineering Research Board (2008–2013) and a recipient of the National BioScience Award for Career Development (Dept. of Biotechnology). 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 biological sciences in 2017. He was inducted as a fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (New Delhi, India) in December, 2022.
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Ganesh Bagler
- Occupations
- researcher
- Biography
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Ganesh Bagler is known for his research in computational gastronomy, an emerging data science of food, flavors and health. By blending food with data and computation he has helped establish the foundations of this niche area. Starting with the investigation of food pairing in the Indian cuisine, his lab has contributed to computational gastronomy with studies on culinary fingerprints of world cuisines, culinary evolution, benevolent health impacts of spices, and taste prediction algorithms.
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Anant Ramachandra Gokhale
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Anant Ramachandra Gokhale was an educationalist. In 20th century India, many great personalities walked in multifaceted fields of Indian society. Many amongst them served the nation in different capacities through various occupations. Some of them contributed immensely in the field of education all over India. Gokhale was amongst such personalities who worked all his life for women education and welfare.
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Tapan Sinha
- Occupations
- military personnel
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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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Kullal Chickappu Naik
- Years
- 1903-1973 (aged 70)
- Occupations
- author
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Kullal Chickappu Naik, abbreviated as K. C. Naik was an Indian agricultural scientist mainly dealing with horticulture. He was also an academic administrator and author. He was the first vice chancellor of University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore.
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Lalthantluanga
- Years
- 1947-.. (age 78)
- Occupations
- biochemist
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R. Lalthantluanga is a retired professor of biochemistry and the former vice chancellor of Mizoram University, India. He is the first Mizo to become vice chancellor of Indian universities, and he is the third vice chancellor of Mizoram University. He is the former head, professor and founding faculty of the Department of Biochemistry, Dean of School of Life Sciences, and pro-vice-chancellor of North Eastern Hill University.
