PROMINENT PEOPLE OF THE WORLD

NICOLAUS STENO

2012-01-11T03:54:00.000+05:30

NICOLAUS STENO Nicolas Steno, Latinized to Nicolaus Steno , (born 11 January, 1638-died 25 November 1686) was a Danish pioneer in both anatomy and geology. His given name was Niels Stensen, but he is generally referred to by the Latinized version, Nicolas Steno. His name also has a variety of other spellings, such as Steensen, Stenonis (Latin), Stenone (Italian) and Stenon (French). Already

MARY WOLLSTENCRAFT

2011-12-23T21:57:00.000+05:30

It is a challenge to write about Mary Wollstonecraft, an 18th century English writer and women's rights advocate whose life is overshadowed by her famous daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, among other works.The challenge is twofold: While Wollstonecraft would seem to be a founding feminist, she would not have considered herself such. And while

FRIDA KAHLO

2011-12-08T02:21:00.001+05:30

FRIDA KAHLO-I On a rainy day in September 1925, Frida Kahlo and her boyfriend Alejandro Gómez Arias were in Mexico City waiting for a bus that would take them to her home in Coyocán, Mexico. The bus came, and they

2011-10-21T22:42:00.000+05:30

MARY BLAIR Mary Blair (October 21, 1911 – July 26, 1978), born Mary Robinson, was an American artist who was prominent in producing art and animation for The Walt Disney Company, drawing concept art for such films as Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Song of the South and Cinderella. Blair also created character designs for enduring attractions such as Disneyland's It's a Small World, the

ਸਾਂਝੇ ਪੰਜਾਬ ਦਾ, ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਦਾ ਅਣਖੀਲਾ ਲੋਕ ਕਵੀ:

2011-09-09T22:53:00.001+05:30

100ਵੇਂ ਜਨਮ ਦਿਵਸ 3 ਸਤੰਬਰ ’ਤੇ ਵਿਸ਼ੇਸ਼ ਚਿਰਾਗ ਦੀਨ ਦਾਮਨ ਉਜਾਗਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਚਿਰਾਗ ਦੀਨ ਦਾਮਨ ਸਾਂਝੇ ਪੰਜਾਬ

PUNJABI PAINTERS

2011-03-13T01:26:00.001+05:30

SOHAN QADRI Sohan Qadri (born November 2, 1932, in Punjab, India) is a yogi, poet and a painter from India who has lived in Copenhagen for the past 30 years. His paintings result from states of deep meditation, and are informed by the colors of India: luminous, dye-infused works on meticulously serrated paper. Over his long career, Qadri has interacted with a wide array of cultural figures

FRANZ KAFKA-III

2011-01-18T23:46:00.000+05:30

Kafka Biography A Little Fable Franz Kafka was born into the flux of social discord and bureaucratic dead weight that was otherwise known as Prague. With both God and father wielding hammers above his head, Kafka came of age in a city which had, under the assault of the modern world, ceased to make any sense. It was a city that had lost its own cultural identity. Burdened

FRANZ KAFKA-II

2011-01-18T23:17:00.000+05:30

Franz Kafka – Vegetarian Activist Rai Bahadur Gujarmal Modi is counted among the noted industrialists of India who have aided in the building & strengthening of the pillars of Indian autonomy. He had a multi-faceted personality. He was a born administrator and an ardent believer of God. He was never after power and had led a very simple life. Throughout his life, he helped many people

INDIAN BUSINESS PIONEERS

2010-09-07T23:55:00.000+05:30

KARAM CHAND THAPAR Karam Chand Thapar (1900 to 1963) was the founder of the Thapar group of companies. He was originally from Punjab. He started his career in 1920 as a coal trader in Calcutta, and built up the family fortune through Karam Chand Thapar and Bros. He then started JCT Limited[1]

FAMOUS SPORTSMEN

2010-09-07T14:14:00.001+05:30

ANDY MURRAY Andrew "Andy" Murray (born 15 May 1987) is a Scottish professional tennis player and current British No.1. He is currently ranked No.4 in the world, but was ranked No.2 from 17 August 2009 to 31 August 2009. Murray achieved a top 10 ranking by the Association of Tennis Professionals for the first time on 16 April 2007. He has reached two Grand Slam finals, the 2008 US Open and the

INDIAN COMPUER GENIUS

2010-09-03T00:30:00.000+05:30

ANKIT FADIA Ankit Fadia is an Indian computer security consultant based in Silicon Valley, USA. He has authored several books on computer security. Fadia is currently pursuing his Bachelors in Management Science & Engineering at Stanford University. Fadia was educated at Delhi Public School. He started a website called “HackingTruths”, which he claims was judged as the “

INDIAN I.T.WIZKIDS

2010-09-03T00:19:00.001+05:30

AMAN REHMAN Eight-year-old computer wizkid Aman Rehman. Tribune photo: Vinod Pundir For Aman Rehman, an eight-year-old animation wizard from Dehradun who is the son of a motor mechanic, recognition at the international level has started pouring in even as the boy applies for an entry into the Guinness Book of World Records under the young achievers category. Aman has made

INDIAN GENIUS

2010-09-03T00:15:00.000+05:30

SHAKUNTALA DEVI Shakuntala Devi (Kannada: ಶಕುಂತಲಾ ದೇವಿ) is a calculating prodigy who was born on November 4, 1939 in a Brahmin family in Bangalore, India. Her father worked in a "Brahmin circus" as a trapeze and tightrope performer, and later as a lion tamer and a human cannonball. Her calculating gifts first demonstrated themselves while she was doing card tricks with her father when she

INDIAN I.T.WIZKIDS

2010-08-29T00:25:00.009+05:30

KRANTHI KIRAN VISTAKULA A Smart StitchKranthi Kiran Vistakula’s climate control jackets and other gear have propelled him to the No. 1 spotBy Smita Sengupta The cold winds of the US East Coast that he faced while studying at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) forced Hyderabad-born Kranthi Kiran Vistakula to invent his first climagear — a jacket that would

INDIAN I.T.WIZKIDS

2010-08-28T23:53:00.000+05:30

Indrani Medhi ASSOCIATE RESEARCHER Contact me at indranim at microsoft dot com About me: Indrani Medhi is an Associate Researcher in the Technology for Emerging Markets Group at Microsoft Research India in Bangalore. Her research interest is in the area of Ethnographic UI Design. Her current work has been in User

INDIAN I.T.WIZKIDS

2010-08-28T23:35:00.000+05:30

RANVEER CHANDRA Researcher Networking Research Group ranveer@microsoft.com Tel: (425) 706-7034 Fax: (425) 936-7329 Ranveer Chandra is a Researcher at Microsoft Research. He completed his undergraduate studies in Computer Science from IIT Kharagpur, India, and his Ph.D. in

PROMINENT PAINTERS

2010-08-22T23:00:00.007+05:30

MANJIT BAWA Manjit Bawa (1941 – 29 December 2008), born in Dhuri, Punjab, India, was an Indian painter Bawa's older brothers encouraged him to pursue art. He studied fine arts at the College of Art, New Delhi between 1958 and 1963, where his professors included Somnath Hore, Rakesh Mehra, Dhanaraj Bhagat and B.C. Sanyal. "But I gained an identity under

CANADIAN SIKHS

2010-08-20T02:31:00.000+05:30

SARDAR GIAN SINGH KOTLI S.Gian Singh Kotli a prominent canandian from Surry (Canada) who's services to the cause of Punjabi language and literature are widely acclaimed, both in Canada and outside who is credited with propagating Sikhism among the white youth in canadian school, colleges, churches and universities, was introduced to the audience and presented with a memento and Siropa of

AKAL TAKHT JATTHEDAARS

2010-08-09T00:46:00.000+05:30

JATTHEDAR TEJA SINGH BHUCCHAR

GREAT PUNJABIS

2010-08-07T01:12:00.004+05:30

Sardar Ajit Singh: Hero of the ‘Pagdi Sambhal Jatta’ Movement Shaheed Bhagat Singh’s family, which had a rich political heritage of resistance to colonialism, had a deep influence on his development. His great grandfather, Sardar Fateh Singh was one of the valiant Sikhs of Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s army who had fought bravely till the end against the British in the Anglo-Sikh war

GREAT PUNJABIS

2010-08-06T22:11:00.002+05:30

TEJA SINGH SWATANTAR SWATANTRA, SHRI TEJA SINGH, M.A., (Com.) Punjab-Sangrur—1971, Son of Shri Kirpal Singh; b. at Aluna, Punjab, July 16, 1901; educated at Punjab University and Kutb University, Moscow, and also graduated in Military Sciences (Turkey); married to Shrimati Tej Kaur Bhajan, June, 1918; Prominent Social Worker political activist; associated with

SIKH LEADERS

2010-08-06T14:46:00.000+05:30

Teja Singh Akarpuri Teja Singh Akarpuri, Jathedar, was an Indian politician, an active figure in the Gurdwara Reform movement. He was born at Akarpura, a village 13 km northwest of Batala (31°49'N, 75"12'E), in the Gurdaspur district of the Punjab. His father was Pala Singh and mother Partap Kaur. He matriculated from Khalsa Collegiate School, Amritsar, in

SIKH EDUCATIONISTS

2010-08-06T01:11:00.000+05:30

PRINCIPAL TEJA SINGH Teacher, scholar and translator of the Sikh sacred texts, Principal Teja singh (1894 - 1958) was born Tej Ram on 2 june 1894 at the village of Adiala in Rawalpindi district, now in Pakistan. His mother's name was Srusti (Saraswati) and his father's name was Bhalakar Singh. At the age of three, Tej ram was sent to Gurdwara to learn and to read and write

JATHEDARS OF AKAL TAKHT

2010-08-06T00:59:00.001+05:30

Achchar Singh Twice Jathedar of Akal Takht Sahib (1892-1976) A Gurdwara offciant and Akali politician who twice held office as Jathedar (provost) of Sri Akal Takht at Amritsar, was born on 18 January 1892 in a farming family of modest means at Ghanienke, a village in Lahore district. The youngest son of Hukam Singh and Gangi, he learnt to read Gurmukhi letters and to recite the Scripture at

SIKH POLITICIANS

2010-08-06T00:43:00.000+05:30

Ishar Singh, Majail Politician, Legislator and Campaigner (1901-1977) Was born in January 1901, the son of Bhai Asa Singh and Mai Basant Kaur, an agriculturist couple of Sarai Amanat Khan village, in Amritsar district. He was only about two and a half years old when his father went abroad to Indonesia in search of a better living. He died in Indonesia soon after and Ishar Singh was brought up

SIKH EDUCATIONISTS

2010-08-06T00:24:00.000+05:30

Harkrishan Singh, Bawa Educationist, lover of poetry and intellectual (1892-1978) Was born at Dera Isma'il Khan on 26 July 1892, the son of Bawa Dasaundha Singh. After taking his Master's degree in English literature from Forman Christian College, Lahore, in 1912, he joined the Khalsa College at Amritsar, as a lecturer in English. Later, he had a long spell at Khalsa College, Gujranwala,

TRAVOLOGUE WRITERS

2010-08-05T23:58:00.000+05:30

DEAN MAHOMET(1759-1850) FIRST INDIAN TO WRITE A BOOK IN ENGLISH A Closer Look at Dean Mahomet (1759-1850) Though I've known about Dean Mahomet for a long time, it wasn't until recently that I actually read through the free online version of edition of The Travels of Dean Mahomet, for a class I'm teaching. For people who haven't heard of him, Dean Mahomet is the first Indian

PUNJABI KAVEESHARS

2010-08-05T23:31:00.000+05:30

RANJIT SINGH SIDHWAN Kavishar Ranjit Singh Ji Sidhwan used to sing with and without music. As most of us know that to sing unplugged is no ordinary skill, but Kavishar ji was a master of it. Kavishar ji was honoured with prestigious awards like Prof. Mohan Singh Award, Prof. Sohan Singh Sital Award and Amar Singh Award. He had the company of Shiromani Kavishar Sh.

SIKH SAINTS

2010-08-05T00:25:00.001+05:30

Sohan Singh, Sant Saint and Gurdwara Reformer (1902-1972) IntroductionSant Sohan Singh ji, by his own free will decided to keep his Kesh and become Amritdhari. By his own free will, Bhai Sahib decided to work for the SGPC at a time when most people wanted to avoid doing this. Whichever task Prof Sahib Singh decided to do, he would put in one hundred percent and was

SIKH PIONEERS

2010-08-05T00:01:00.005+05:30

MJS WARAICH [Gadri Babian Da Munshi] MJS Waraich has been reconstructing the history of Ghadar movement page by glorious page. "I am not a historian, I am a mere collector," says Waraich, sitting in his room full of books, court judgments, government records, manuscripts and Ghadar memorabilia he has been collecting with rare perspicacity and rather

PROMINENT MOHYAL

2010-07-30T23:50:00.000+05:30

SIR GANESH DATT SINGH Sir Ganesh Dutt Singh KCSI, KCIE (1868–1943) was an Indian administrator and educationist. He did much to improve education and health services in the state of Bihar and Orissa in the pre-independence era.] Dutt made generous donations from his earnings and personal property for the development of educational institutions, such as the radium institute in Patna Medical

PROMINENT MOHYALS

2010-07-30T22:52:00.000+05:30

ZORAWAR CHAND BAKHSHI Lt. Gen. Zorawar Chand Bakhshi (Hindi: ज़ोरावर चन्द बख़शी) (b 1919) is a famous retired soldier of the Indian Army, and has the distinction of being "India's most decorated General" Gen. Bakhshi belongs to the Lau clan of the Mohiyal community, noted for its martial tradition. His father, Sardar Bahadur Bakshi Lal Chand Lau OBI was a decorated soldier as well, in the

INDIAN ENTREPRENEURS

2010-07-29T23:10:00.000+05:30

SHOBHNA BHARTIA Born - 1957 Achievements - Daughter of renowned industrialist KK Birla, Shobhana Bhartia is the vice-chairperson as well as the editorial director of the Hindustan Times group, which is among India's major newspaper and media houses. In the year 2001, she received the Outstanding Business Woman of the Year award. Born in the year 1957, the daughter of renowned

INDIAN ENTREPRENEURS

2010-07-29T23:06:00.001+05:30

KIRAN MAZUMDZR SHAW Born: March 23, 1953 Achievement: Chairman & Managing Director of Biocon Ltd; Felicitated with Padmashri (1989) and Padma Bhushan (2005). Kiran Mazumdar Shaw is the Chairman & Managing Director of Biocon Ltd, India's biggest biotechnology company. In 2004, she became India's richest woman. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw was born on March 23, 1953 in Bangalore. She had her

INDIAN ENTREPRENEURS

2010-07-29T22:57:00.000+05:30

RAUNAQ SINGH Born: 1922 Achievement: Founder of Raunaq Group; Elected as a member of the Executive Board of the International Chamber of Commerce, Paris Raunaq Singh was one of the earliest entrepreneurs of independent India who made it big. He was the founder of Raunaq group. The Raunaq Group's major companies include Apollo Tyres Ltd, Bharat Gears Ltd, Bharat Steel Tubes Ltd, Raunaq

INDIAN ENTREPRENEURS

2010-07-29T22:49:00.000+05:30

BHAI MOHAN SINGH Born: December 30, 1917 Achievement: Founder of pharmaceutical giant Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd; Awarded with Padma Shri Bhai Mohan Singh can be called as the doyen of pharmaceutical industry in India. He is the founder of pharmaceutical giant Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. Bhai Mohan Singh was born on December 30, 1917 in Rawalpindi district. His father Bhai Gyan Chand was a Hindu

INDIAN ENTREPRENEURS

2010-07-29T22:38:00.002+05:30

KUSHAL PAL SINGH [K.P.Singh] Born: August 15, 1931 Achievement: Chairman of DLF Group; Recipient of the 'Delhi Ratna' Award for his valuable contribution to Delhi K.P. Singh is the Chairman of DLF Group and can be christened as the real estate baron of India. DLF has a strong leadership presence in Indian real estate industry and the company is credited with developing the modern township of

PROMINENT PUNJABI WOMEN

2010-07-21T23:07:00.016+05:30

KIRAN BEDI -A Sensitive Lady With Iron Spirit I'm here to do my best for the day" - Kiran Bedi Inspirational true life stories are tagged as favorite celebrities for decades. One such well known celebrity around the globe who is recognized for her courage, welfare strategies and tag line 'I Dare' is Kiran Bedi. She dreamt and worked for a better world and she achieved it. Read all about the

PROMINENT PUNJABI WOMEN

2010-07-21T00:22:00.001+05:30

KEWAL KAUR From the information provided by Amarjit Chandan, this is all we know about Kewal Kaur: Kewal Kaur (c1940. Samrai BhodaN. Jalandhar – 1982) An activist of the Maoist-Naxalite CPI (ML) in East Punjab, Kewal Kaur was jailed during Moga agitation in 1972. She was the Editor of a Punjabi magazine Ma (The Mother). Kewal Kaur was forced to commit suicide in Jalandhar in 1982.

PROMINENT PUNJABI WOMEN

2010-07-20T22:48:00.001+05:30

BIBI GULAB KAUR- THE LITTLE-KNOWN HEROINE OF GHADAR PARTY Gulab Kaur, a revolutionary of early 1900s, is the first Great Punjabi Woman featured here though we know little about her. Yet there is this amazing possibility that this post may find someone who can tell us more. Gulab Kaur (circa 1890 Bakhshiwala District Sangrur – 1931) According to Amarjit Chandan, Gulab joined Ghadr

PUNJABI LYRICISTS

2010-07-19T23:55:00.007+05:30

NAND LAL NOORPURI It’s the oft repeated, unheard story of a poet’s legacy, in the city he lived, amongst people who still look for him and those who don’t remember.Sourabh Gupta writes about Nand Lal Noorpuri, and his poetic spirit On the night of May 13, 1966, in Model House Colony, Jalandhar, Gurbachan Dua, a young student, heard a loud splash from the well outside her house. She

SIKH PAINTERS

2010-07-19T00:09:00.000+05:30

PHOOLAN RANI S.G Thakur Singh made an illustration on the collapse of the British system of slavery for the title page of Kirti, a paper, then edited by Shaheed Bhagat Singh and Com Sohan Singh Josh”. Many such interesting nuggets of information on art can be had from the octogenarian artist Phulan Rani. She is indeed a live-encyclopaedia of artists. SG Thakur Singh, an admirer of Phulan

PUNJABI FOLK SINGERS

2010-07-18T23:31:00.002+05:30

HAZARA SINGH RAMTA Hazara Singh Ramta (b. August 1, 1926 -) is a Punjabi folk singer, Poet and Comedian. Ramta was born in Sahiwal, Pakistan. Though Hazara Singh Ramta is a born poet and an epitome of artistic faculties, he started his singing career in 1952 with All India Radio and HMV by broadcasting and recording his beautiful ghazals and hilarious songs.

SIKH HISTORIANS

2010-07-18T23:19:00.000+05:30

KARAM SINGH HISTORIAN Karam Singh (1884-1930), pioneer of Sikh research in Sikh history was born on 18 March 1884, the son of Jhanda Singh (a Dhillon Jat), and Mai Bhisan Kaur, at Jhabal village 15 km west of Tarn Taran in the Amritsar district of Punjab. The family that claimed descant from Bhai Langhah, a prominent Sikh contemporary of Guru Arjan dev ji and Guru Hargobind, later shifted to

BAHADUR SHAH ZAFAR

2010-07-17T23:26:00.002+05:30

1 BAHADUR SHAH ZAFAR The last Mughal king, Bahadur Shah, better known as Bahadur Shah Zafar, was born in 1775 at Delhi. He was the son of Akbar Shah from his Hindu wife Lalbai. Bahadur Shah, after the death of his father, was placed on the throne in 1837 when he was little over 60 years of age. He was last in the lineage of Mughal emperors who ruled over India for about 300 years. Bahadur Shah

SIKH SAINTS

2010-07-17T22:24:00.001+05:30

MAHANT TIRATH SINGH JI SEVAPANTHI Mahant Tirath Singh Ji 'Seva Panthi' (February 12, 1925 - January 14th, 2008) was the 12th spiritual descendant of Bhai Kanhaiya Ji. He was a true saint and gnostic, and a soul of a very high order. He perceived the Almighty immanent in His creation and was always absorbed in Him. He was a very kind and generous humanitarian. He was extremely knowledgeable

SIKH SAINTS

2010-07-17T22:06:00.000+05:30

SANT GULAB SINGH JI GHOLIAGulab Singh Gholia (1853-1936), Sikh saint and scholar, was born in 1853 to Bhai Dal Singh and Dharam Kaur of Bhattivala, a village 6 km south of Bhavanigarh, in the present Sangrur district of the Punjab. He received his early education in the village dharamsala, and then spent five years at the dera of Bhai Ram Singh, at Manuke, in Faridkot district, learning kirtan

SIKH SAINTS

2010-07-15T23:16:00.000+05:30

BABA KARAM SINGH JI HOTI MARDAAN Baba Karam Singh Ji was born in 1828 at village Kazipur, District Rawalpindi(now in Pakistan). Bhai Kirpa Singh, of a thorough spiritual nauture, was his father.Bibi Subi Kaur was his mother. From early childhood, Baba Ji would sit aloof and did not talk much.He did not mix with other children.He was taught Gurmukhi and Gurbani by his father.He took very

SIKH HISTORICAL FIGURES

2010-07-12T22:51:00.004+05:30

BHAI KANHAYYA JI Guru Tegh Bahadur had a personal follower, one Kanhaya Lal a Dhamman (Dhiman) Khatri was born in 1648 in a town called Sohadara now in Pakistan. In time Originally an officer in the service of the Mughals, he became a drawer of water to.the Guru's horses and to all with him and a menial at his table day and night. The Guru taught him and invested him with the seli and

SIKH POETS

2010-07-04T22:29:00.005+05:30

MAHAKAVI BHAI SANTOKH SINGH Along the road from Tarn Taran to Lahore, through Jhabaal, thrives the village of "Sarai Noor Din" (Now re-named Kila Kavi Santokh Singh). At this village in September 1787, this great Sikh historian Bhai Santokh Singh was born to Sardar Deva Singh and Mata Raj Devi. At the age of eleven his father sent him to Amritsar to be tutored by Giani

MUSIC DIRECTORS

2010-07-04T22:24:00.000+05:30

SANTOKH SINGH Santokh Singh is India’s most promising and talented young dynamic music director who created waves with his super-duper music albums. He is among the top music directors in India and has a significant position in Indian music Industry. As a music director Santokh has created music for popular Indian films and performed with many leading singers. He is well recognizable by

PUNJABI WRITERS

2010-07-02T22:18:00.000+05:30

Santokh Singh Dhir 1920–2010 By Amarjit Chandan Santokh Singh Dhir, who has died aged 90, was a major Punjabi writer and one of our last links with the second generation of grandees. Dhir was born to a Sikh father and a Hindu mother. His life was a hard struggle raising a large family. He started to work as a tailor, but soon left tailoring to work as a journalist for Preet Lari ਪ੍ਰੀਤ ਲੜੀ,

GHADAR PARTY HEROES

2010-06-24T22:25:00.002+05:30

BABA SOHAN SINGH BHAKNA Founder president of the Ghadr party in the U.S.A. (1870-1968) Was the only son of Bhai Karam Singh, of the village of Bhakna, 16 km southwest of Amritsar. He was born in January 1870 at Khutrai Khurd, parental home of his mother, Ram Kaur, 3 km northeast of Guru ka Bagh

GADARI MARTYRS

2010-06-20T22:22:00.000+05:30

Surrey, Canada: Sep. 8,2009: A candle vigil was held in Surrey in memory of Sikh Bhai Bhag Singh, many have given him the title ‘the first Indian martyr on Canadian soil”. In commemoration of the 95th anniversary of the death of Bhai Bhag Singh, hundreds gathered in his honour. The event was organised by the Indo Canadian Workers’ Association (ICWA) at Bear Creek Park at 13750-88 Avenue

SIKH SPIRITUALISTS

2010-06-19T23:16:00.001+05:30

GURU CHARAN SINGH Gurucharan Singh Khalsa is a psychotherapist, teacher and writer, and is a world recognized expert in Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan. He heads a business consulting firm, has a broad-based therapy practice, instructs at MIT and directs a large community of yoga practitioners. Dr. Khalsa is an expert in the mind and in the applied psychology of meditation and peak

SIKH ECONOMISTS

2010-06-17T03:08:00.000+05:30

Prof. MANOHAR SINGH Associate Professor of Finance, MANOHAR SINGH coauthored a paper titled “Capital Market Impact of Product Marketing Strategy: Evidence from the Relationship between Advertising Expenses and Cost of Capital” that was published in the Academy of Marketing Science’s special issue on marketing and finance interface. The paper that appears in the Journal of the Academy of

THEATRE ACTORS

2010-06-17T03:01:00.000+05:30

MANOHAR SINGH Manohar Singh (1938 - 14 November 2002) was a distinguished[1][2] Indiantheatre actor-director and a character actorin Hindi films. He is best known for his performances in films such as Party (1984) and Daddy (1989). Starting his acting career from theatre, he went on to become a theatre director and later the chief ofNational School of Drama Repertory Company, 1976 to 1988,

VETERAN ATHLETES

2010-06-16T22:30:00.002+05:30

THIS AGED IS STILL AGILE A. Ghulati Rohtak, April 27 Vintage Surat Singh with medals d the joy in athletics. But he entered the fray in the competitive world of athletics at an age when the life of most of the people come to a standstill, their limbs fail to respond and they start counting their

SIKH MILITARY HEROES

2010-06-16T22:27:00.000+05:30

GANDA SINGH DATTSardar Bahadur Risaldar Major Ganda Singh Datt (1830 - July 1903) was a decorated soldier in the British Indian Army, who served in the 19th Bengal Lancers also known as Fane's Horse. MILITARY CAREER & AWARDSGanda Singh was a Muhiyal (Mohyal) born into a Hindu family but brought up as a Sikh, a practice often followed in Muhiyal families at the time. He belonged to the village

INDIAN GADARI BABAS

2010-06-15T00:03:00.000+05:30

GANDA SINGH 'GADARI BABA' Ganda Singh (Phangureh), district Hoshiarpur (1883–18 March 1958) was one of the original freedom fighters and ghadarites. He was the son of Nikka Singhof Pandori, Hariana, Hoshiarpur In 1907, Ganda Singh moved to North America aboard the S.S. Monteagle where he took part in various movements for national independence. There he also lived among the pioneers of the

SIKH HISTORIANS

2010-06-14T23:52:00.000+05:30

Dr.GANDA SINGH Dr Ganda Singh (1900-1987) is the celebrated Sikh historian, who by his sustained and pioneer work in the field of historical research, initiated new trends in Sikh historiography and who, by his critically important work, became a vital and pervasive influence in historical learning in the field of Sikh Studies, He was born on 15 November 1900, at

SIKH PAINTERS

2010-06-14T00:00:00.000+05:30

BHAGAT SINGH BEDI Bhagat Singh paints with both skill and passion. His subjects? Sikh history, heros and warriors and the very essence of the Sant-Siphai spirit! A self-taught artist and a science student, Bhagat Singh Bedi, was born in Ludhiana, and moved to Canada when he was very young. After he moved to Canada, he immediately got involved in Gurudwara activities, and Gurmat camps. In the

SIKH SPIRITUALISTS

2010-06-13T22:44:00.002+05:30

Dr. BHAGAT SINGH THIND Dr. Thind in 1924 Bhagat Singh Thind Bhagat Singh Thind (1892-1967) was born in Punjab and came to America in 1913. A year later, he was paying his way through the University of California at Berkeley by working in an Oregon lumber mill during summer vacations. When America entered World War I, he joined the U.S. Army. He was honorably discharged on 16th of December,

INDIAN FILM ACTRESSES

2010-06-08T00:17:00.000+05:30

SUCHITRA KRISHNAMURTHY EARLY LIFEShe was born and brought up in Mumbai in a Telugu Brahmin family in Mumbai to V. Krishnamoorthi-commissioner of income tax and Dr Sulochana Krishnamoorthi, a historian and professor.CAREER She started her career with the TV series Chunauti while still in school.She was a successful model in the early nineties having endorsed many products such as Palmolive soap

CLASSICAL DANCERS

2010-06-07T00:13:00.000+05:30

YAMINI KRISHNAMURTHY Yamini Purna Tilaka Krishnamurthy alias Yamini Krishnamurthy, accomplished Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi dancer who has dedicated her life to Indian classical dance for decades, was born in 1940, in Madanapalli, Andhra Pradesh. She hails from an eminent family which was more literarily than artistically inclined. Yamini’s father, M. Krishnamurthy, was a Sanskrit scholar and

PUNJABI NRI;s

2010-06-06T23:54:00.000+05:30

SANT SINGH CHHATWAL Sant Singh Chhatwal born in 1946 Rawalpindi, Punjab (British India), is an Indian-American businessman, owner of the Bombay Palace chain of restaurants and Hampshire Hotels & Resorts.The son of a small tea stall owner in district courts Faridkot, Punjab claiming to have been a former pilot in the Indian Navy, Chatwal migrated to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where in course of

SIKH THEOLOGIANS

2010-06-05T22:44:00.005+05:30

GYANI SANT SINGH JI MASKEEN Gyani Sant Singh Maskeen (1934-18 February 2005) was born in 1934 at a place called Lak Marwat in District Bannu today part ofPakistan. The only son of his parents, Gyani ji lived in Alwar, Rajasthan for the last 57 years of his life.He was honoured by the Sikh community with the rare title of “Panth Rattan” for his services to mankind through the

PUNJABI WRITERS

2010-06-05T22:18:00.000+05:30

SANT SINGH SEKHON Sant Singh Sekhon (1908-97) was a genius par excellence. To call him a multi-faceted genius is in fact to state the obvious. With MA in Economics and English, he started his literary career as a poet. In the thirties and early forties, his poems written in English, were published along with those of W H Auden and Stephen Spender. But then he shifted to writing in Punjabi.It was

SCIENTISTS

2010-06-05T21:09:00.000+05:30

Stephen Benton : Pioneer of modern holography Stephen Benton (1941-2003) as well, is amongst the pioneers of modern holography. He is the inventor of Benton holography, also referred to as rainbow holography (1969), a fascinating holographic process that allowed the subsequent realization of holograms that can be illuminated with white light, holograms that display in true colours, and

SCIENTISTS

2010-06-05T21:06:00.000+05:30

Yuri Denisyuk : Pioneer of modern holography The eminent Russian gentleman and physicist Yuri Denisyuk (1927-2006) together with Emmett Leith (1927-2005) and Juris Upatnieks (b. 1936) must be honoured as one of the pioneers of modern holography. After lasers became available Denisyuk developed "volume reflection holography" rightfully also called "Denisyuk holography". Denisyuk began experiments

SCIENTISTS

2010-06-05T21:02:00.000+05:30

Emmett Leith:- Pioneer of Modern Holography As early as 1956, Emmett Leith of the University of Michigan reinvented holography as a spin-off of his research on side-reading radar. Only in the early 1960s, after the invention of the laser, the first off-axis laser transmission holograms were recorded by Leith and his colleague Juris Upatnieks. These novel holograms of diffusely reflecting objects

SCIENTISTS

2010-06-05T20:58:00.004+05:30

Gabriel Lippmann : Pioneer in photography Gabriel Lippmann (1845-1921) developed a method of capturing coloured images in black-and-white photographic emulsions. His stunning invention, now called Lippmann colour photography, was based on the phenomenon of light interference in thin films. In hindsight, it is straightout unbelievable that this advanced photographic process was developed

SCIENTISTS

2010-06-05T14:27:00.003+05:30

Willebrordus Snellius - Refraction of light Â© Willebrord Snel van Roijen (1580-1626) was a distinguished Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer. He used the latin name "Willebrordus Snellius" as his scientific alias. Snel (written with one l) is most famous for his discovery in 1621 of the law of refraction, generally referred to as "Snel's law". Phenomena such as "the broken stick",

NOBEL LAUREATES

2010-06-05T13:43:00.005+05:30

Dennis Gabor Born5 June 1900 Budapest, Hungary Died9 February 1979 (aged 78) London, England CitizenshipBritish / Hungarian FieldsElectrical engineering InstitutionsImperial College London British Thomson-Houston Alma materTechnical University of Berlin Technical University of Budapest Known forInvention of holography Notable awardsNobel Prize in Physics (1971) IEEE Medal of Honor (

SIKH SAINTS-1

2010-06-04T22:55:00.004+05:30

Siri Singh Sahib Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogi Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji (born as Harbhajan Singh Puri)[1] (August 26, 1929 - October 6, 2004), also known as Yogi Bhajan and Siri Singh Sahib, was a charismatic and influential proponent of Kundalini Yoga and Sikh Dharma. He is best known as the spiritual director of the 3HO (Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization) Foundation, which today is

CULTS AND SECTS OF PUNJAB-1

2010-06-04T22:41:00.001+05:30

Dr. HARBHAJAN SINGH Commissioned by Sant Kirpal Singh to carry on His work, Dr Harbhajan Singh was an outstanding personality in the history of Sant Mat. He distinguished himself by performing the task of a master in the role of a disciple (Gurmukh), which he maintained throughout his life. Often he used to quote Sant Kirpal Singh's words, "I want to work through thousands of hands" - "

PUNJABI FOLK SINGERS-1

2010-06-02T03:29:00.000+05:30

ALAM LOHAR Allam Lohar was born in the small village of Aach Goach outside Gujrat, Punjab, into a family of blacksmiths. He was gifted with a melodious voice and began singing as a child. Strongly attracted to music, he took little interest in his studies and dropped out of school to pursue a singing career, much to the dismay of his father, until Malik Shah, his spiritual guide,