Thursday, October 21, 2010

CLASSICAL DANCERS ,Mallika Sarabhai,Shovana Narayan,Sonal Mansingh,Yamini Krishnamurthy,Birju Maharaj

CLASSICAL DANCERS


In the Indian culture, classical dance has a lot of significance. It is not merely meant for entertaining oneself, but it serves as a fabulous way to express the innate feelings of heart. It is one of the best means to get connected to God.In the ancient times, dance was performed to appease the deities.
Dance performances took place inside the sanctum of the temple. As per the scriptures, this dance form was referred to as Agama Nartanam. Classical dances of India also found their way in the royal courts and they were popularly known as Carnatakam. There are numerous classical dancers who have made an incredible contribution in popularizing the dance forms of India abroad.

Mallika Sarabhai

She is a well known Kuchipudi and Bharatanatyam dancer of India. She is the daughter of renowned artists. Her mother is a great dancer and father is a famous scientist. Well, we are talking about the celebrated dancer Mallika Sarabhai. In this article, we will present you with the biography of Mallika Sarabhai.

Shovana Narayan

maestro of Kathak dance, she is a well known name that appears on the top in the list of eminent classical dancers of India. Her wonderful performances have left the people awestruck. Her teacher is none other than the famous Birju Maharaj. Well, we are talking about the great Indian Kathak dancer Shovana Narayan.

Sonal Mansingh

An eminent Indian classical dancer, she is the maestro of Odissi dance form. She is also proficient in performing other dance forms such as Kuchipudi, Bharatnatyam and Chhau. Well, we are talking about the great Indian dancer Sonal Mansingh, who has made Indians proud. In this article, we will present you with the biography of Odissi dancer Sonal Mansingh, one of the most prominent dancers of India.

Yamini Krishnamurthy

Born in the year 1940 to a Telugu family at Chidambaram in Tamilnadu, Yamini Krishnamurthy is an eminent Bharatnatyam dancer, who has swayed the entire country with her fabulous dance performance. She is also well known for her Kuchipudi dance style. When she was five years old, she started learning Bharatnatyam dance from the Kalashetra School of Dance in Chennai.

Birju Maharaj

Pandit Birju Maharaj is a legendary Kathak dancer. He belongs an illustrious family of dance masters of the Lucknow gharana. His two uncles Shambu and Lacchu Maharaj, and his father Acchan Maharaj were all well-known Kathak dancers.

Social Reformers,Kiran Bedi,Medha Patkar,Baba Amte ,Ramakrishna Paramhansa ,Raja Ram Mohan Roy,Dayanand Saraswati,

Social Reformers in India

India has produced numerous social reformers who have played a significant role in making India a more progressive and forward looking country. These social reformers have fought against several social evils such as Sati, widow remarriage, child marriage, casteism et al. Here is a brief profile of famous Indian social reformers.

Dayanand Saraswati

Dayanand Saraswati was one of the most radical socio-religious reformers in the history of India. Swami Dayanand Saraswati was the founder of Arya Samaj and propagated egalitarian approach of the Vedas at a time when widespread casteism was prevalent in the society.

Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Raja Ram Mohan Roy is known as the 'Maker of Modern India'. He was the founder of the Brahmo Samaj, one of the first Indian socio-religious reform movements. He played a major role in abolishing the role of Sati. Raja Rammohan Roy was a great scholar and an independent thinker.

Ramakrishna Paramhansa

Ramakrishna Paramhansa was one of the foremost Hindu spiritual leaders of the country. His teachings are still deeply revered by the people. He also played a key role in the social reform movement in Bengal in 19th century.

Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda was one of the most influential spiritual leaders of Vedanta philosophy. He was the chief disciple of Ramakrishna Paramahansa and was the founder of Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission. Swami Vivekananda was the living embodiment of sacrifice and dedicated his life to the country and yearned for the progress of the poor, the helpless and the downtrodden.

Vinoba Bhave

Vinobha Bhave’s original name was Vinayak Narahari Bhave. He was born in a Brahmin family on September 11, 1895 at the village of Gagoda in Kolaba district of Maharashtra. He was greatly influenced by his mother Rukmini Devi. Vinoba Bhave was well-read in the writings of Maharashtra's saints and philosophers.

Kiran Bedi

Kiran Bedi is truly an icon of heroism. She was the first Indian woman to join the Indian Police Services. She was born on June 9, 1949 at Amritsar in Punjab. She is one of the most renowned police officers, who have put in their whole hearted effort in serving the society.

Medha Patkar

Medha Patkar is a well known social activist of India. She was born on 1st December in the year 1954. Prior to becoming a social reformer, she completed her M.A. in Social Work from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS).She left Ph. D. in the midst and got actively involved in the agitations conducted by tribals and peasants of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat.

Shanta Sinha

Shanta Sinha, the Ramon Magsaysay award winner, has recently been appointed for the post of chairperson of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights. She is the founder secretary trustee of the Mamidipudi Venkatarangaiya (MV) Foundation, Secunderabad.

Baba Amte

Baba Amte is one of the greatest social reformers India's ever had. He gave his lucrative career as barrister for social service. He was so great a person that he dedicated his entire life to the care and rehabilitation of leprosy patients.

Jyotiba Phule

Jyotirao Govindrao Phule, who was a prominent activist, thinker and social reformer from the Indian state of Maharashtra during the 19th century, was also famous by the name of Mahatma Jyotiba Phule. During his time, he tried bringing in positive renovations in the spheres of education, agriculture, caste system, social position of women et al.

Shahu Chhatrapati

Shahu Chhatrapati was the Maharaja or the king of the Indian princely state of Kolhapur. Also known by the name of Rajarshi Shahu, he was known to be a great social reformer of his time. Shahu Chhatrapati was born on 26 June in the year 1874 as Yeshwantrao Ghatge.

great leaders,Indian freedom struggle,Rajiv Gandhi,Dr. B.R. Ambedkar,Lala Lajpat Rai,

Leaders


Indian has produced a plethora of great leaders. Some of them have played a vital part in Indian freedom struggle while other have taken India to great heights post independence. The simplicity, courage, and fortitude of these leaders continue to be a source of inspiration for the common people.

Here are some of great leaders.


Annie Besant ,Aruna Asaf Ali, Aurobindo Ghose, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Shaheed Bhagat Singh

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar ,Chandrashekhar Azad , Dadabhai Naoroji, Gopal Krishna Gokhale ,

Jawaharlal Nehru , Lala Lajpat Rai , Lal Bahadur Shastri ,Maulana Abul Kalam Azad ,

Motilal Nehru , Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Rajiv Gandhi , Sardar Patel , Sarojini Naidu ,

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan , Subhas Chandra Bose , Veer Savarkar , Kasturba Gandhi ,

Madam Cama, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur , Sucheta Kriplani , Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit ,

Abdul Ghaffar Khan , Ajmal Khan , Pattabhi Sitaramayya , Bipin Chandra Pal , Chittaranjan Das ,

Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari , Gopinath Bordoloi , Jayaprakash Narayan , K Kamaraj ,

Mangal Pandey , Mridula Sarabhai , Rani Gaidinliu , S. Srinivasa Iyengar ,

Sir Surendranath Banerjee

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

VOCALISTS,Girija Devi,Kumar Gandharva, classical music , Hindustani Classical Music ,Carnatic music,Pandit Jasraj,Balamurali Krishna

VOCALISTS

Indian classical music has two distinct genres consisting of Hindustani classical music and Carnatic music. Hindustani Classical Music is the north Indian classical music tradition and it's believed to have evolved from 12th centuries AD onwards. Hindustani Classical Music is said to have been evolved out of a homogeneous amalgamation of different musical genres like the Vedic chant tradition, Persian tradition of Musiqi-e assil and existant folk music culture. Carnatic music, on the other hand, is the classical music tradition in the southern part of India.
India has been blessed with a number of renowned classical vocalists like Ananda Shankar, Tansen, Tyagaraja, Beghum Akhtar, Swathi Thirunal, Ghulam Ali Khan, Girija Devi and so on.

Girija Devi

She is an eminent Indian classical vocalist representing the Banaras gharana. She is proficient singers of various different genres of Hindustani vocal music like Khyal, Thumri, Dadra, Chaiti and Kajari. But her forte lies in singing the Poorab and Thumri. She is, thus, called the Queen of Thumri.

Kumar Gandharva

A renowned Indian Hindustani classical singer, the most unique feature about the singing style of Kumar Gandharva was that he refused to be circumscribed by the specific tradition and rules of a Gharana. He was a child prodigy and a genius at creating innovative compositions.

Vishwanath Rao Ringe

An eminent Indian Hindustani classical music stalwart, late Pt. Vishwanath Rao Ringe is credited for composing as many as 2000 bandishs in about 200 ragas. Due to this reason, his name was enlisted in the prestigious Limca Book of Records.

Pandit Jasraj

Foremost exponent of Mewati gharana; Recipient of Padma Bhushan, Surer Guru , Sangeet Martand , Sangeet Kala Ratna, Sangeet Natak Academy Award , Maharashtra Gaurav Puraskar , and Dinanath Mangeshkar Award.

Balamurali Krishna

Balamurali Krishna turned out to be a child prodigy, who began staging musical shows from the age of five. He composed the Raganga Ravali that's a detailed work on the 72 Melakarta scheme when he was merely 14 years old. Also he is said to have composed as many as 400 Carnatic musical compositions.

Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan

Belonging from the illustrious Patiala Gharana, Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan was considered the king of Hindustani classical music genre. Infact, the people were so much in love with his voice that many called him the Tansen of the 20th century.

Bhimsen Joshi

Enriched the Kirana gharana by adding his own distinctive style and adapting characteristics from other gharanas; Improvised and combined ragas to create new ragas; Recipient of Padma Shri, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Vibhushan

Monday, October 18, 2010

SCIENTISTS,C.V. Raman,Homi Bhabha,Jagdish Chandra Bose,Vikram Sarabhai,APJ Abdul Kalam,Srinivasa Ramanujan

SCIENTISTS


Indian scientists have played an important role in the development of India. Indian scientists have proved their mettle in the face of international sanctions and have made India one of the scientific powerhouses of the world. Here is a brief profile of famous Indian scientists.

C.V. Raman

C.V. Raman is one of the most renowned scientists produced by India. His full name was Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman. For his work on scattering of light, C.V. Raman won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930.

Homi Bhabha

Homi Bhabha, whose full name was Homi Jehnagir Bhabha, was a famous Indian atomic scientist. In India, Homi Jehnagir Bhabha, with the support of Jawaharlal Nehru, laid the foundation of a scientific establishment and was responsible for the creation of two premier institutions, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and Bhabha Atomic Research Centre.

Jagdish Chandra Bose

Jagdish Chandra Bose was born on November 30, 1858 in Mymensingh (now in Bangladesh). His father Bhagabanchandra Bose was a Deputy Magistrate. Jagadish Chandra Bose had his early education in village school.


Meghnad Saha

Meghnad Saha was born on October 6, 1893 in Sheoratali, a village in the District of Dacca, now in Bangladesh. He was the fifth child of his parents, Sri Jagannath Saha and Smt. Bhubaneshwari Devi. His father was a grocer in the village.


M. Visvesvaraya

Sir M. Visvesvaraya was born on September 15, 1860 in Muddenahalli village in the Kolar district of the erstwhile princely state of Mysore. His father Srinivasa Sastry was a Sanskrit scholar and Ayurvedic practitioner. His mother Venkachamma was a religious lady. He lost his father when he was only 15 years old.


Satyendra Nath Bose

Satyendra Nath Bose was an outstanding Indian physicist. He is known for his work in Quantum Physics. He is famous for "Bose-Einstein Theory" and a kind of particle in atom has been named after his name as Boson.


Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century. He did commendable work in astrophysics, physics and applied mathematics. Chandrasekhar was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983.


Vikram Sarabhai

Vikram Sarabhai was one of the greatest scientists of India. He is considered as the Father of the Indian space program. Apart from being a scientist, he was a rare combination of an innovator, industrialist and visionary.


Anil Kakodkar

Dr Anil Kakodkar is a very distinguished nuclear scientist of India. He is presently the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India (AECI) as well as the Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Atomic Energy.


APJ Abdul Kalam

Apart from being a notable scientist and engineer, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam served as the 11th President of India from the period 2002 to 2007. He is a man of vision, who is always full of ideas aimed at the development of the country and is also often also referred to as the Missile Man of India.
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Srinivasa Ramanujan was a mathematician par excellence. He is widely believed to be the greatest mathematician of the 20th Century. Srinivasa Ramanujan made significant contribution to the analytical theory of numbers and worked on elliptic functions, continued fractions, and infinite series.


Dr. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar

Dr Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar was a distinguished Indian scientist. He was born on 21 February 1894 at Shahpur, which is located in Pakistan in present times. His father passed away sometime after the birth of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar. As such, he spent his childhood days with his maternal grandfather who was an engineer and it was here that he developed an interest in science and engineering.

Writers

Writers

India has produced several great writers who have influenced a whole generation and continue to inspire the coming generations by their writings. Their works vividly portray the picture of Indian society and subtly bring out the ills it. Indian writers have played a progressive part in the reform of Indian society. Here is a brief profile of Famous Indian writers.


Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee also known as Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay was one of the greatest novelists and poets of India. He is famous as author of Vande Mataram, the national song of India.

Premchand

Premchand popularly known as Munshi Premchand was one of the greatest literary figures of modern Hindi literature. His stories vividly portrayed the social scenario of those times.

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore was an icon of Indian culture. He was a poet, philosopher, musician, writer, and educationist. Rabindranath Tagore became the first Asian to became Nobel laureate when he won Nobel Prize for his collection of poems, Gitanjali, in 1913. He was popularly called as Gurudev and his songs were popularly known as Rabindrasangeet.

Anita Desai

Anita Desai is an Indian novelist and short story writer. She is known for her sensitive portrayal of the inner feelings of her female characters. Many of Anita Desai's novels explore tensions between family members and the alienation of middle-class women.

Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy is a famous Indian novelist and social activist. Arundhati Roy came into limelight in 1997 when she won the Booker Prize for her first novel "The God of Small Things". She was awarded Sydney Peace Prize in 2004.


Jhumpa Lahiri

Jhumpa Lahiri is a famous Indian American author of Bengali origin. Her first novel, "The Namesake" was a major national bestseller and was named the New York Magazine Book of the Year. Jhumpa Lahiri became the first Asian to win the Pulitzer Prize when she won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her book "Interpreter Of Maladies".


Mulk Raj Anand

Mulk Raj Anand was an Indian novelist, short-story writer. He was among the first writers to incorporate Punjabi and Hindustani idioms into English. Mulk Raj Anand's stories depicted a realistic and sympathetic portrait of the poor in India.


R.K. Narayan

R.K. Narayan is one of the most famous and widely read Indian novelists. His stories were grounded in a compassionate humanism and celebrated the humour and energy of ordinary life.

Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie is one of the most famous Indian origin authors. He is best known for the violent backlash his book The Satanic Verses (1988) provoked in the Muslim community. Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Khomenei issued a fatwa against Salman Rushdie, calling for his assassination, forcing Rushdie to go underground.


Vikram Seth

Vikram Seth was born on June 20, 1952 at Kolkata. His father, Prem, was an employee of the Bata India Limited shoe company who migrated to post-Partition India from West Punjab in Pakistan. Vikram Seth's childhood was spent in the town of Batanagar near Calcutta, Patna, and London.

V.S. Naipaul

V.S. Naipaul (Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul) was born on August 17, 1932, at Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago. His forefathers came as indentured labourers from India. Naipaul's upbringing familiarised him with every sort of deprivation, material and cultural. He got a scholarship to Oxford University and thus came to England.


Kiran Desai

Daughter of a well known Indian author, she is the winner of the 2006 Booker prize. Well, we are talking about the eminent Indian novelist Kiran Desai. She was born on the 3rd of September in the year 1971 in Chandigarh. She spent the early years of her life in Pune and Mumbai.

Mahadevi Varma

She is a well known Hindi poet of the Chhayavaad generation, the times when every poet used to incorporate romanticism in their poetry. She is more often called the modern Meera. Well, we are talking about the famous Mahadevi Varma, who achieved the Jnanpith award in the year 1982.

Shashi Deshpande

Shashi Deshpande is a well known name in the field of Indian literature. She was born in Dharwad in Karnataka as the daughter of the renowned Kannada dramatist as well as a great Sanskrit scholar Sriranga. She pursued her education in Dharwad, Bombay and Bangalore.

Shobha De

Shobha De is an eminent Indian novelist, who is often known as India's Jackie Collins. She was born as Shobha Rajadhyaksha to the Saraswat Brahmin family of Maharashtra on the January 7, 1947. She completed her graduation from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai and obtained degree in Psychology.

Khushwant Singh

Khushwant Singh is a senior prominent Indian novelist cum journalist. He was born on 2 February 1915 at Hadali in British India that is now a part of Punjab in Pakistan. A significant post-colonial writer in the English language, Khushwant Singh is known for his clear-cut secularism, humor and a deep passion for poetry.

Nirad C. Chaudhuri

Nirad C. Chaudhuri was a famous Bengali Indian writer. He was born on 23 November in 1897 at Kishoreganj located in the Mymensingh district of East Bengal of those days or today's Bangladesh. He studied at Kishorganj and then in Kolkata city.


Subhadra Kumari Chauhan

Subhadra Kumari Chauhan was a prominent poetess in India, whose writings used to be very emotionally charged. She was born in 1904 at the Nihalpur village in Allahabad district. But after her wedding to a Thakur Laxman Singh of Khandwa, Chauhan shifted to Jabalpur in the year 1919.

Subramanya Bharathi

Subramanya Bharathi was a Tamil poet, reformer and freedom fighter during the pre-independence era. Also referred to by the name of Mahakavi Bharathiyar meaning Great Poet of Tamil, Bharathi's name is counted amongst the most celebrated bards of the country.

Mahasweta Devi

Mahasweta Devi is a reputed Indian writer who was born in the year 1926 into a middle class Bengali family at Dacca, which is located in present day Bangladesh. She received her education from the prestigious Shantiniketan set up by great Indian philosopher and thinker, Rabindranath Tagore that went on to become a part of the Visva Bharti University later on.

Sunday, October 17, 2010

MUSICIANS,Ustad Ali Akbar Khan,Hariprasad Chaurasia,MS Subbulakshmi,Bismillah Khan,Ravi Shankar,Zakir Hussain,AR Rahman,Muthuswami Dikshitar

MUSICIANS

Indian classical musicians and singers have played a great role in popularizing Indian music all across the world. They have enriched the world of music and enthralled the audiences with their masterful artistry. Their soulful rendition has brought s olace to many a hearts. Here is a brief profile of Famous Indian classical musicians.
Ustad Ali Akbar Khan

Ustad Ali Akbar Khan was one of the most accomplished Indian classical musicians, admired all over the world for his brilliant compositions and his mastery of the sarode.
Ustad Amjad Ali KhanUstad Amjad Ali Khan was born at Gwalior Madhya Pradesh in 1945. He belongs to the illustrious Bangash lineage rooted in the Senia Bangash School of music and is the sixth generation sarod player in his family.

Hariprasad Chaurasia

Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, is a world-renowned exponent of the bansuri or bamboo flute. He is one of those rare classical musicians who expanded the peripheries of classical music by taking it to the common masses.

MS Subbulakshmi

MS Subbulakshmi was a legendary Carnatic musician. She was popularly known as Nightingale of India. Her rendering of bhajans (devotional songs) was divine and used to enthrall and transfix listeners, and transport them into a different world

Bismillah Khan

The legendary shehnai player, Ustad Bismillah Khan was one of India's most celebrated classical musicians. Bismillah Khan has been credited with taking the shehnai from the marriage mandap to the concert hall.

Ravi Shankar

Ravi Shankar is a legendary sitar player and one of India's most esteemed classical musicians. Pandit Ravi Shankar has made a major contribution in popularizing Indian classical music in the West through his association with The Beatles (especially George Harrison).

Shiv Kumar Sharma

Shiv Kumar Sharma's name is synonymous with santoor, Indian classical music instrument. Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma is credited with single-handedly making the santoor a popular classical instrument.

Zakir Hussain

Zakir Hussain is a classical tabla virtuoso and the most famous tabla player in India today. His contribution in the field of percussion and in the music world at large is highly appreciated.

Ananda Shankar

Ananda Shankar was a popular musician of India, who excelled in fluxing the western into the eastern music styles. He was born on 11 December 1942 at Almora in the Uttar Pradesh state to eminent classical dancers, Amala and Uday Shankar. He also happened to be the nephew of the world famous Sitarist, Ravi Shankar.

AR Rahman

Allah Rakha Rahman, who is better known as AR Rahman, is a world-class musician of India. Born as A. S. Dileep Kumar on 6 January 1967 at Chennai in Tamil Nadu, AR Rahman holds the credit for totally overhauling the style in which music was being made in India.

Beghum Akhtar

Though Beghum Akhtar had acted in several Hindi movies, it was her fabulous rendition of ghazals that won her laurels from all round. Born on 7 October 1914 in the small town of Faizabad in the Uttar Pradesh state, Beghum Akhtar was more popularly known as Akhtaribai Faizabadi.

Pandit Debu Chaudhuri

Pandit Debu Chaudhuri also known as Debu, is the leading Sitar exponent and a prominent personality in the field of Indian classical music in India. In order to highlight his contribution to the field of music, the Indian government presented him with the coveted Padma Bhushan award, which is among its highest civilian honor in the country.

Sri Lalgudi Jayarama Iyer

When it comes to rendering Carnatic music on a Violin, none measure up to the legendary Sri Lalgudi Jayarama Iyer. His mastery over this instrument and the consequent development of his own individual style has unfailingly had a spell bounding effect on those who have had the opportunity to listen to him.

L. Subramaniam

L. Subramaniam is a very highly talented senior Indian violinist, composer and conductor. He is skilled in Carnatic music, which is the classical music tradition of south India as well as Western classical. L. Subramaniam is famous for his music and compositions in orchestral fusion.

Muthuswami Dikshitar

Born in the year 1775 as the eldest son of Ramaswami Dikshitar and Subbamma at Tiruvarur in the Tamil Nadu state, Muthuswami Dikshitar happens to be the youngest of the Carnatic music composer trinity.

RD Burman

Rahul Dev Burman, who is more famous by the name of R.D. Burman, is considered the greatest of all music composers the Indian film industry's ever had. His entry into Bollywood saw the revolutionization of the way music was being composed here.

Swathi Thirunal

Sri Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma was the Rajah of the ancient princely state of Travancore, which he ruled from 1829 till 1846 when he passed away. At the same time, he was also a great patron of music and a musician himself.

Miyan Tansen

Miyan Tansen, who was one of the nine jewels or navaratnas in the court of Emperor Akbar, is regarded as the greatest of all musicians India has ever produced till date. Normally referred to as just Tansen, he is said to have played a pivotal role in crating the classical genre of north Indian music we know today.

Tyagaraja

A discussion on Carnatic music, perhaps, can never be complete without the mention of Tyagaraja, who along with his contemporaries Muthuswami Dikshitar and Syama Sastri comprise the trinity of Carnatic music composers.

Allauddin Khan

Though famous mainly as a Sarod expert, Allauddin Khan was, infact, a multi-instrumentalist and among the greatest musicians India's ever had. Fondly also called Baba Allauddin Khan, he was father to Ali Akbar Khan and Annapurna Devi and guru to many Indian musical stalwarts like Ravi Shankar, Nikhil Banerjee

Annapurna Devi

Annapurna Devi, who was born as Roshanara Khan in 1926 at Maihar in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, was a secluded maestro of Surbahar or the bass Sitar in the classical music genre. Her father Ustad Alauddin Khan, who also happened to be her guru

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Painters,Amrita Shergill,Jamini Roy,Raja Ravi Varma,M F Hussain,Tyeb Mehta,Anjolie Ela Menon,Francis Newton Souza,Rameshwar Broota,S H Raza

Painters

India have produced several great painters who have influenced the world through their sensitivities. Paintings of some of the Indian painters such as M.F. Husain and Tyeb Mehta are of international Importance. This proves the popularity of Indian painters across the world. Here is a brief history of famous Indian painters.

Amrita Shergill

Amrita Shergill was a renowned Indian painter. She was one of the most charismatic and promising Indian artists of the pre-colonial era. Most of her paintings depicts clearly her love for the country and more important her response to the life of its people.

Jamini Roy

Jamini Roy was one of the most significant and influential painters of the 20th century. He was born in a middle-class family in 1887 at Beliator village in Bankura district of Bengal. His father Ramataran Roy was an artist who, after resignation from government service, spent the rest of his life in his village amidst the potters.

Raja Ravi Varma

Raja Ravi Varma is considered as one of the greatest painters in the history of Indian Arts. His paintings consist of depiction of scenes from the epics of the Mahabharata and Ramayanamake him famous. Raja Ravi Varma is most remembered for his paintings of beautiful sari clad women, who were portrayed as very shapely and graceful.

M F Hussain

M F Hussain was born on September 17, 1915 in Pandharpur, Maharashtra. He lost his mother when he was one and a half years old. Husain's father remarried and moved to Indoor. M F Hussain did his schooling from Indore. In 1935, MF Hussain moved to Bombay and joined Sir J. J. School of Art.

Tyeb Mehta

Tyeb Mehta was a well known Indian artist, who was known all over the world for his brilliant painting. A multifaceted personality. He held the record for the highest price for which an Indian painting has ever been sold, in a public auction. It was his triptych painting Celebration that, on being sold for 15 million Indian rupees ($300,000 USD), gave him this honor.

Anjolie Ela Menon

Anjolie Ela Menon is among India's lending contemporary female artists, who have created a name for themselves in the domestic as well as international art . Her works are a part of significant painting collections across the world. One of her art works, 'Yatra' was recently picked up by the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco at California in the year 2006.

Francis Newton Souza

Born on 12 April 1924 to a Goan couple, Francis Newton Souza was an eminent Indian artist of his time. He was among that early crop of painters who hold the credit of popularizing Indian art in the western countries. Francis Newton Souza was the student of the Sir JJ School of Art in the Mumbai city.

Rameshwar Broota

Born in the year 1941 at Delhi, Rameshwar Broota has emerged as one of the most prominent painters of India in the present times. Having an innate passion for art, he joined the College of Art in the capital city during the year 1964. And he went to become the head of the well-known institute Triveni Kala Sangam devoted to the promotion of art and culture in the year 1967.

S H Raza

S.H. Raza, who was born in the year 1922 as Syed Haider Raza, is a internationally acclaimed Indian painter. Though he has resided and worked from France since the 1950s, yet he maintains close association with his motherland till date. Though he incepted doing figurative paintings, he gradually moved on to abstract later on.

Mother Teresa,Saint,Monica Besra ,Missionaries of Charity,'Some thing Beautiful for God''the living saint'Pope Paul VI

Mother Teresa


Important facts :-Roman Catholic ,Born on - August 26,1910 -Skopje,Macedona

Original Name -Agnes Gonxha BojaxhiuKnown as a social worker ,

Founders of Missionaries of Charity , Died on September 7 ,1997 at the age of 87 at Calcutta , India, Cause of death is old age.She got the award Nobel Peace Prize.

Introduction

Mother Teresa was one of the most famous women ever lived on the face of the earth.She was a Catholic nun from Alabania.She became world famous through her social works in Calcutta.In 1950,she established the Missionaries of Charity.It was a congregation of sisters who worked for the poor and the downtrodden.She spent almost forty years in serving the poor.She also guided the expansion of the congregation in India and abroad.Mother Teresa was first introduced to the world by malcolm Muggeridge who wrote a book and directed a documentary on her charity works.The title of the book and the documentary was 'Some thing Beautiful for God'.She became well known to the people when she won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.Even during her life time she was called 'the living saint'.
Her Early Life

Her original name was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu.Her parents was Albanian .Father was involved in Albanian Politics.When she was 8 years old her father died.In the child hood she heard the stories from the lives of missionaries and saints.By age of eighteen she joined the 'Sisters of Loreto' She went to Ireland to learn English.She came to India in 1929.She took her vows as a religious on May 24,1931.It was at this time she selected the name Teresa Then she went to Calcutta and worked in a school as a teacher.September 10,1946 was an important day in the life as it was on this day she decided to do something different.Mother Theresa decided to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them.She started her new missionary work in 1948 .She selected a particular mode of dress mainly because she wanted to lead a very simple life altogether .Becoming an Indian Citizen She began her life long work in the slums of Calcutta .In the begining of her new career,Mother teresa started a new school in Motijihil.
On October 7, 1950, Mother Teresa received permission from the Vatican to start her own order. Vatican originally labeled the order as the Diocesan Congregation of the Calcutta Diocese, and it later came to known as the "Missionaries of Charity". The primary task of the Missionaries of Charity was to take care of those persons who nobody was prepared to look after.
The Missionaries of Charity, which began as a small Order with 12 members in Calcutta, today has more than 4,000 nuns running orphanages, AIDS hospices, charity centres worldwide, and caring for refugees, the blind, disabled, aged, alcoholics, the poor and homeless and victims of floods, epidemics and famine in Asia, Africa, Latin America, North America, Poland, and Australia. In 1965, by granting a Decree of Praise, Pope Paul VI granted Mother Teresa permission to expand her order to other countries. The order's first house outside India was in Venezuela. Presently, the "Missionaries of Charity" has presence in more than 100 countries.
Mother Teresa's work has been recognised and acclaimed throughout the world and she has received a number of awards and distinctions. These include the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize (1971), Nehru Prize for Promotion of International Peace & Understanding (1972), Balzan Prize (1978), Nobel Peace Prize (1979) and Bharat Ratna (1980).
On March 13, 1997, Mother Teresa stepped down from the head of Missionaries of Charity and died on September 5, 1997, just 9 days after her 87th birthday. Following Mother Teresa's death, the Holy See began the process of beatification, the second step towards possible canonization, or sainthood. This process requires the documentation of a miracle performed from the intercession of Mother Teresa. In 2002, the Vatican recognized as a miracle the healing of a tumor in the abdomen of an Indian woman, Monica Besra, following the application of a locket containing Teresa's picture. Monica Besra said that a beam of light emanated from the picture, curing the cancerous tumor. Mother Teresa was formally beatified by Pope John Paul II on October 19, 2003 with the title Blessed Teresa of Calcutta. A second miracle is required for her to proceed to canonization.

Monday, October 4, 2010

Important Vaccines,BCG,Vaccines,Polio Vaccine

Important Vaccines

BCG -Tuberculosis

Cholera Vaccine -Cholera

Mumps vaccine -Mumps ,Malaria ,Chicken Pox

Polio Vaccine (oral) -Polio

Tetanus Toxoide (TT)- Tetanus

Toxoid Serum -Diphtheria

Triple antigen -Diphtheria ,Tetanus ,Whooping Cough