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Narendra Modi
Prime Minister of India since 2014
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Narendra Damodardas Modi (born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician who has served as the prime minister of India since 2014. Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the member of parliament (MP) for Varanasi. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wingHindu nationalistparamilitary volunteer organisation. He is the longest-serving prime minister outside the Indian National Congress.
Modi was born and raised in Vadnagar in northeastern Gujarat, where he completed his secondary education. He was introduced to the RSS at the age of eight. At the age of 18, he was married to Jashodaben Modi, whom he abandoned soon after, only publicly acknowledging her four decades later when legally required to do so. Modi became a full-time worker for the RSS in Gujarat in 1971. The RSS assigned him to the BJP in 1985 and he rose through the party hierarchy, becoming general secretary in 1998. In 2001, Modi was appointed chief minister of Gujarat and elected to the legislative assembly soon after. His administration is considered complicit in the 2002 Gujarat riots, and has been criticised for its management of the crisis. According to official records, a little over 1,000 people were killed, three-quarters of whom were Muslim; independent sources estimated 2,000 deaths, mostly Muslim. A Special Investigation Team appointed by the Supreme Court of India in 2012 found no evidence to initiate prosecution proceedings against him. While his policies as chief minister were credited for encouraging economic growth, his administration was criticised for failing to significantly improve health, poverty and education indices in the state.
In the 2014 Indian general electi
Indian Express, Sept 12, 2010 by Lord Meghnad Desai
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Indian Express
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The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma
Gurcharan Das
Allen Lane
Pages: 434
Rs 699
Gurcharan Das is a multi-talented man. He has been a successful business leader, an author of plays and novels and the book India Unbound, which told the world that India had arrived. Now he has taken on the difficult task of reading the Mahabharata and interpreting its many messages in light of contemporary circumstances.
Unlike many people in their dotage, who turn to religion and spout untutored nonsense, Das took his task seriously. He took out a year of his life and went to the University of Chicago to study the Mahabharata critically. It is a dying shame of the Indian university system that even to study a Sanskrit classic, there is no institution with the library facilities or the Sanskrit expertise that Chicago has.
The result is a book rich in ideas. Das does not retell the story as has often been done. He takes episodes and characters who pose moral and ethical questions. Why is Duryodhana so envious, how could every male of the Kuru clan sit passively as Draupadi, in her menstrual state and wearing but a single garment, was physically assaulted, indeed all but publicly raped by Dushasana, why was Yudhishthira so meek and why did he later agree to a war of genocidal proportions? Arjun’s hesitation is well known but there is also Bhishma’s self-abnegation, Karna’s resentment at the injustice meted out to him because he is just an OBC and then there is Krishna’s willingness to play dirty to win, Ashwatthama’s heinous killing of the five Pandava children etc.
Das obviously had a roaring time at Chicago reading all sorts of books and talking to some of the best Sanskritists there are. He has given us a cosmopolitan study of a quintessentially Indian text. The cent
Sudha Murty Biography: Birth, Age, Family, Education, Career, Awards, Books, Philanthropy and More
Sudha Murty (née Kulkarni) is an Indian engineering teacher who excels as an author in Kannada, Marathi and English language. She is mainly known for her philanthropic work. She currently serves as the Chairperson of the Infosys Foundation and is the wife of the co-founder of Infosys, N.R. Narayana Murthy. Today, the philanthropist turns 70. Penguin announces her next book on this occasion-- Grandparents’ Bag of Stories.
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Sudha Murty: Birth, Family, Early Life and Education
Sudha Murty was born on August 19, 1950, in Shiggaon, Haveri in Karnataka, India, to
Dr R. H. Kulkarni and Vimala Kulkarni. She belongs to Deshastha Madhwa Brahmin family. She is graduate in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the B.V.B. College of Engineering & Technology (presently known as KLE Technological University). She completed her post-graduation in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Science. She received a gold medal from the then Chief Minister of Karnataka.
Sudha Murty: Career
Sudha Murty wrote a postcard to the then Chairman of TELCO and complained about the gender bias in the company. After this, she was interviewed and was hired immediately, becoming the first female engineer hired at India's largest auto manufacturer TATA Engineering and Locomotive Company (TELCO). She was posted first posted in Pune as a Development Engineer and was later posted in Mumbai and Jamshedpur. She also worked with Walchand group of Industries at Pune as Senior Systems Analyst.
In the year 1996, she established the Infosys Foundation and is currently the Chairperson of the organization. She is also a visiting Professor at Bangalore University. She was also a professor at Christ University.
Infosys foundation inaugurated two instit
Ram Nath Kovind
President of India from 2017 to 2022
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Ram Nath Kovind (Hindi: Rāma Nātha Kovindapronounced[ɾɑmɐnɑt̪ʰɐkoʋɪnd̪ɐ] ; born 1 October 1945) is an Indian politician and lawyer who served as the president of India from 2017 to 2022. He is the first person from Uttar Pradesh to serve as the president. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and also the first person from the party to become the president. Prior to his presidency, he served as the Governor of Bihar from 2015 to 2017. He also served as a Member of Rajya Sabha from 1994 to 2006. Before entering politics, he was a lawyer for 16 years and practiced in the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court of India until 1993.
Early life and education
Kovind was born to Maiku Lal and Kalawati in a Koli family during the British Raj on 1 October 1945, in Paraunkh village in the Kanpur Dehat district of Uttar Pradesh, as the youngest of five brothers and two sisters. His father Maikulal ran a shop and was also a farmer and a local vaidya (doctor). His mother Kalawati was a homemaker. Kovind was born in a mud hut, which eventually collapsed. He was only five when his mother died of burns when their thatched dwelling caught fire. Kovind later donated the land to the community.
After his elementary school education, he needed to walk each day to Kanpur village, 8 km (5.0 mi) away, to attend junior school, as nobody in the village had a bicycle. He holds a bachelor's degree in commerce and an LLB from DAV College (affiliated with Kanpur University).
Early career
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After graduating in law from DAV College, Kanpur, Kovind went to Delhi to prepare for the civil ser