Narender Modi
he was president of india who was born after freedom .
Childhood
At very early age he started helping his father to sell tea at Vadnagar railway station. And as he grew up, at teenage he with the help of his brother ran tea stall near bus terminal. At the age of 8 years he came in contact with RSS and started attending its local shakhas. During this time Modi was inducted as a ‘balswayamsevak’, a junior cadet in RSS.
Education
Narendra Modi completed his schooling at the right age of 17, and then he is graduated with a BA degree from Delhi University at 28. He then got his MA degree at 33 from Gujarat University.
Career
While attending RSS local meetings he came in contact with Vasant Gajendragadkar and Nathalal Jaghda, leaders of the Jan Sangh who later founded the BJP's Gujarat state unit in 1980. The RSS assigned Narendra Modi to the BJP in 1985. Modi was elected as organizing secretary of BJP's Gujarat unit in 1988, which is known to be his formal entry into mainstream politics. As a secretary, his strategy was the main reason behind BJP's victory in the 1995 state elections. Modi was a key strategist for the BJP in the successful 1995 and 1998 Gujarat state election campaigns. On 7th October 2001, Modi was appointed as the Chief Minister of Gujarat, with the responsibility of preparing the BJP for elections in December 2002.
At Present
At present Modi is Prime Minister of India. Currently he is also the Member of Parliament (MP) from Varanasi (he left his MP seat from Vadodara). In 2014, he lead the BJP in general elections, and the results were astonishing as it completely outright majority of BJP in Lok Sabha’s election, the last time that any of the parties secured an outright majority in the Lok Sabha was in 1984.
Awards and Honors:
1. He was awarded Gujarat Ratna by Shri Poona Gujarati Bandhu Samaj.
2. He has also received e-Ratna award by the Computer Society of India
3. Narendra Modi was awarded as Best Chief Minister – In a nationwide survey conducted in 2007 by
India Today magazine.
Pandit jawaherlal Nehru
Childhood
Jawaharlal Nehru was born in Allahabad to Motilal Nehru and Swaruprani Thussu. He was the eldest of all his siblings. His childhood was protective, peaceful and sheltered. He grew up in a wealthy, rich and opulent environment. Even he had the privilege of living in Anand Bhawan, a large palatial state.
Education
He was taught privately at home only by tutors and teachers, but as an interlude he went to Harrow School, England. He became interested in the subjects science and theosophy. He soon became a member of Theosophical Society at the age of thirteen. But his interest did not sustain longer and he left the society. He used to study Buddhist and Hindu scriptures and one day wrote a book ‘Discovery of India’. Afterwards, he went to Trinity College, Cambridge to attain a degree in natural science. The degree taught him political science, economics, history and literature. These subjects improved his thinking and gave him a kind of mental stability. After completing the degree, he went to London to study law at Inns of Court School of Law. He stayed there for two years. During this time, he continued to study the scholars of the Fabian Society. He passed his bar attempts in first attempt and was admitted to the English bar.
Career and entering Politics
He joined politics and the fight for freedom of India in 1919 when Massacre of Jallianwala Bagh took place. He joined Indian National Congress and majorly assisted Mahatma Gandhi. He became active from the 1920 non-cooperation movement. In 1929, Nehru took the Presidency of Congress and declared ‘Purna Swaraj’. After India’s successful fight for freedom, in 1947, Nehru became the first Prime Minister of free India.
At the End
Jawaharlal Nehru took the responsibility of reforming India. He became actively involved in bringing and implementing Economic Policies, Agricultural Policies, Social Policies and Foreign Policies.
On 27th May, 1964, Jawaharlal Nehru died at his home, which is believed to be cause by severe heart attack.
Srinivas Ramanujan
Education
He was enrolled into Telegu School, but found it too tiring and uninteresting to attend school and mostly he use to ran away from there. Later in 1904, he graduated from Town Higher Secondary School.
He also received a scholarship to study at Government Arts College in Kumbakonam. During his studies he was so influenced by studying mathematics that he could not focus on any other subject and failed in all of them. This resulted him in losing the scholarship. Later, without any degree, he left the college and continued to pursue independent research in mathematics.
Career
His unconditional love for mathematics was driving him to develop new things for that subject, but to support his livelihood he was working as a clerk in the Accountant-General's office at the Madras Port Trust Office. He kept working on inventing new mathematical theorems and continuously tried contacting the experts from west. G.H. Hardy, an academician at the University of Cambridge, recognized the brilliant work produced by Ramanujan and invited him to visit and work with him at Cambridge. Here, Ramanujan became a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Some of the known works, produced by this great mind, are - Landau–Ramanujan constant, Mock theta functions, Ramanujan conjecture, Ramanujan prime, Ramanujan–Soldner constant, Ramanujan theta function, Ramanujan's sum, Rogers–Ramanujan identities and Ramanujan's master theorem.
At the End
Ramanujan died on 26th April, 1920, when he was only 32 years of age. His death occurred untimely because of illness, malnutrition, and possibly liver infection. In this short life he gave around 3900 results, mostly equations and identities and almost all of them prove to be correct and original.
SHRI Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (or C.V. Raman)
Education
C.V. Raman studied in St. Aloysius Anglo-Indian High School in Vishakhapatnam. He completed his metric education at the age of 11 years and intermediate at the age of 13 years. In 1902, Raman joined Presidency College in Madras to do his further studies. And in 1904, he passed his B.A. (Bachelor of Arts) as gold medalist in Physics. Later, in 1907 he completed his M.A. (Master of Arts) degree with the highest distinctions.
Career
He started his career by working in government sector, but in 1917 he left that work after he got chance to be the first Palit Professor of Physics at the University of Calcutta. At the same time he continued his research at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Calcutta, there he became the Honorary Secretary. This was the time when he did all the innovations related to light in physics. During this period he did Noble Prize winning work. He discovered that, when light traverses a transparent material, some of the deflected light changes in wavelength. This phenomenon is now called Raman scattering and is the result of the Raman Effect. In 1954, he was honored with the highest civilian award in India, the Bharat Ratna.
At the End
CV Raman experienced a major heart attack during the last of October in 1970, while working in his laboratory. After the attack he was referred to hospital where after living some days, he refused to stay there and said that he wanted to die in the garden of his Institute called Raman Research Institute. And there he took his last breath on 21st November 1970.
Awards and Honors
● He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society early in his career (1924) and knighted in 1929.
● In 1930 he won the Nobel Prize in Physics.
● In 1941 he was awarded the Franklin Medal.
● In 1954 he was awarded the Bharat Ratna, highest civilian award in India
● He was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in 1957.
● In 1998, the American Chemical Society and Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science recognised Raman's discovery as an International Historic Chemical Landmark.
● India celebrates National Science Day on 28 February of every year to commemorate the discovery of the Raman effect in 1928 in his honour.
Shri Subhash chander bose
Childhood
Subhas Chandra Bose was born to Janaki Nath Bose, a lawyer by profession, and Prabhavati Devi, housewife with pious and religious nature. He had thirteen siblings.
Education
He was admitted to the Protestant European School like his other brothers and sisters. After studying at this school, he moved to Ravenshaw Collegiate School. Subhash Chandra Bose was generally praised by his teachers and it was said that he was a brilliant and outstanding student. He secured second position in his matriculation examination. Later he joined Scottish Church College at the University of Calcutta and attained a degree of Bachelor of Arts in philosophy in 1918. After that, he went to Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and came back with another degree in 1919. As promised by him to his father that he would appear in Civil Services Examination, he not only appeared but secured fourth rank all over India. But, Bose refused to work as an Administrative officer as he did not want to serve Britishers.
Career
After resigning as a Civil Servant, in 1923, Subhash Chandra Bose started Swaraj newspaper spreading aggressive nationalism and later was elected as President of All India Youth Congress. His contribution towards freedom struggle led him to early imprisonment. After his release in 1927, he worked with Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi as General Secretary of Indian National Congress. He proved his political knowledge and showed his mettle and rose the ladder of Congress hierarchy. Like Gandhiji, he was also jailed during Civil Disobedience movement. He was released after a year when Gandhi-Irwin pact was signed for which he protested. Soon after that he was again arrested and released after a period of almost one year. He also started mass movement for utilizing resources and got great response. Bose stayed with Indian National Congress till 1940.
At the end
In 1941, he disappeared and went to Germany to sought support against Britishers. He did get support but unfortunately, Germany got defeated in Second World War and couldn’t support anymore. A news came on August 18, 1945 that Netaji was killed in an air crash. Though it is widely believed that he was still alive after the air crash not much information could be found about him.
Shri Bal Gangadhar tilak
Childhood
Bal Gangadhar Tilak was born in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra in a Brahmin family to Gangadhar Ramachandra Tilak. Since childhood he had a very bold, strong and intolerant attitude towards injustice. He also did not like circumlocution of things but straightforward and honest.
Education
He loved mathematics and was a brilliant student. He was scholar of Indian history, Sanskrit, Hinduism and Astronomy. He joined the Anglo-Vernacular School in Pune and got education from some of the well-known teachers. After passing matriculation, he joined the Deccan College and earned his degree in B.A. Mathematics and with first class but still continued his studies and did LL.B degree in 1879.
Career
Immediately after graduating, Bal Gangadhar Tilak started teaching mathematics in a school in Pune. Not sticking to the job, he switched to becoming a journalist. He became a critic of education. He found education to be the most important tool to mold anybody’s thinking especially of youth because Indian system of education gives you moral and values. For imparting education, he founded Deccan Education Society.
Later he joined Indian National Congress in 1890. He was a tremendous social reformer. Being a member of Bombay Legislature and elected member of Bombay University, he issued in public interest to ban child marriage. He wanted to eradicate all social evils and improve the condition of Indian society. He also supported and welcomed widow remarriage. In all these matters he became very active and thus, appeared as a threat to the then British government. He was convicted and sentenced to jail for a period of one and half year. As soon as he got released from the jail he launched Swadeshi Movement (urging people to use natively produced goods only). He tried to create awareness through newspapers and upto some extent he became successful too. As a result, he got arrested on the charges of sedition for a period of six years in Burma.
At the end
His interests in books lead him to write ‘Gita Rahasya’, which he wrote while in jail. After being released from the jail, he spent most of his time reuniting people for the fight of Swaraj. He went from village to village and created awareness about his goal and got positive response from people. He continuously travelled without realizing his age and taking care of his health. He was so focused on his goal that he forgot everything surrounding him and his environment. Bal Gangadhar Tilak died on 1st August, 1920, while propagating the Indian Independence movement.
Chander shakher Aajad
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Shekhar Azad (birth name: Chandra Shekhar Tiwari) was born on 23rd
July, 1906, in Bhavra Village, Alirajpur District, Madhya Pradesh. He
was an Indian Freedom fighter, revolutionary and head of Hindustan
Socialist Republican Association (HSRA). He was known to be the mentor
of Bhagat Singh.Childhood
Chandra Shekhar Azad was born to Sitaram Tiwari and Jagrani Devi. When he was only 15 years old he joined the non-cooperative movement led by Mahatma Gandhi. And thus, he was arrested along with other freedom fighters. The famous line “Name - 'Azad', father's name - 'Swatantra' (independent) and residence - 'Jail'“, was spoken by him when produced in the court. Since then he was called as Azad.
Education
Before joining the Non-Cooperation movement, Chandra Shekhar Azad took initial education in Sanskrit from Kashi Vidyapeeth, Banaras.
Career
After being arrested so young, Azad became more focused towards independence and directed his energy towards the same. He decided to target British officials and got involved in Kakori Train Robbery in 1925, the incident of Viceroy’s train and shooting of Saunders in1926, in order to take revenge of the murder of Lala Lajpatrai. He was committed towards seeing a free India with no discrimination so that each Indian could live as per his/her own will. He also wanted to bolster socialist principles for India’s prosperity.
At the end
Chandra Shekhar Azad was really fierce and firm. British police was highly afraid of him and kept on finding ways to hit him. But Azad kept his pledge of not being caught alive. Thus, he shot himself dead on 27 February 1931, at Alfred Park in Allahabad, when an informer ditched him by telling the British police about his whereabouts. Before killing himself, he was successful in killing several British Policemen and wounded others.
But before leaving he set an example for the Indians of not losing courage and feeling of patriotism. Stand by your promises and be fierce and determined. He inspires the generation. Thus, he is considered one of the greatest freedom fighters and revolutionaries of India.eatured in Time's 2014 ‘Time 100 list of the most
Swami vivekanand
Childhood
Swami Vivekananda was born in a traditional Bengali family, to father Vishwanath Datta, who was an attorney at the Calcutta High Court and mother Bhuvaneswari Devi, a housewife. From his childhood days, he was interested in spirituality and uses to meditate before the images of Hindu deities. He was fascinated by wandering ascetics and monks.
Education
In 1871, Swami Vivekananda enrolled at Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's Metropolitan Institution, and studied there till the family moved to Raipur in 1877. In 1879, he entered Presidency College with first division marks. During college days, Swami Vivekananda founded his interest in various subjects, including religion, philosophy, social science, history, literature and art. He was keen into reading and used to read a lot of Hindu scriptures, including the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata and the Puranas.
Career
In 1981, Swami Vivekananda became a disciple of Ramakrishna Paramhans. Though he followed him as his guru but was against idol worship, and went ahead in search of real god. After the death of Ramakrishna, Swami Vivekananda went ahead and founded first Ramakrishna Math in Baranagar in 1886. He vowed to wander like a monk. From 1888 to 1893 he visited many regions of India promoting Hinduism.
In 1893, Swami Vivekananda got a chance to visit west when the Parliament of the World's Religions opened on 11 September 1893 at the Art Institute of Chicago as part of the World's Columbian Exposition. There he began his speech with “Sisters and Brothers and of America”, for which he received standing ovation from a crowd of 7000. During his lecture tours in US and UK he actively promoted the ideologies of Vedas and formed Vedanta Society of New York in 1894. Though following his ill health he returned to India and spent his final years here.
At the End
Swami Vivekananda died on 4th July 1902. According to his disciples, Vivekananda went to his room and died while meditating. He attained ‘mahasamādhi’ – a term used by his followers. But the possible cause of death was reported as the rupture of a blood vessel in his brain. Vivekananda fulfilled his prophecy that he would not live forty years.
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