Valiant soldier (1911-1994) Major General Rajinder Singh, nicknamed ‘Sparrow’, was born on 3 October 1911.…
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A multi-faceted artist (1924-2016) Kalpathi Ganpathy Subramanyan, who passed away recently in Vadodara at the…
A man of letters (1915-2016) The world of Kannada literature lost one of its outstanding…
A music teacher par excellence (1862-1972) Allauddin Khan or Baba Allauddin Khan, born in 1862,…
Soldier of integrity and courage (1921-1980) General Raina was born on 21 January 1921, in…
A celebrated war hero (1923-2016) Lt. Gen. J.F.R. Jacob, hailed as the hero of the…
Tireless chronicler of Mumbai (1942-2012) When souls are conjoined, be they people or, a person…
An engineer with foresight (1860-1962) Sir M.Visvesvaraya once said, “The curse of our country is…
Valiant commander (1926-1986) General Arun Kumar Vaidya was born on 27 January 1926, and was…
Revolutionary litterateur (1926–2016) Born in 1926, Mahasweta Devi who passed away in a Kolkata nursing…