Bonnie Hunt

Shortly after moving to L.A., Bonnie Hunt landed the lead on the sitcom Grand in 1990. Though short-lived, the show led to more TV work, including a guest spot on Late Night with David Letterman. She and Letterman quickly became friends, and a year later he helped her write and star in her own series, The Building. Hunt has also been featured in films such as Jerry Maguire and Jumanji.

Actor, director, writer, comedian, producer. Born September 22, 1964 in Chicago, Illinois. The daughter of an electrician and a homemaker, Bonnie was one of seven children growing up in the Hunt household. She attended Notre Dame High School for Girls in Chicago and went on to earn a degree in nursing.

After graduation, she worked at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where her day-to-day interaction with cancer patients inspired her to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming an actress. She studied improve at Chicago's prestigious Second City Improvisational Theater and formed a three-woman comedy troupe with Holly Wortell and Joan Cusack called An Impulsive Thing. She later turned down three offers to join the cast of Saturday Night Live in order to get her own show on the air.

Shortly after moving to Los Angeles, she landed the starring role of Carol Anne Smithson on the NBC sitcom Grand in 1990. Though short-lived, the show led to more television appearances, including a guest spot on Late Night With David Letterman in 1992. She and the amiable host quickly became friends, and a year later he helped her write and star in her own series for CBS, The Building. Hunt was the first woman in the history of television to do so. Other attempts to make her sitcom dream a reality were Davis Rules in 1991 and The Bonnie Hunt Show in 1995. Her latest effort is ABC's semi-improvisational family series Life with Bonnie, which debuted in 2002.

Hunt married investment banker John Murphy in 1988.

Hillary Cliton

Hillary Clinton was born on October 26, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois. Rodham married Bill Clinton in 1975. She was first lady 1993-2001 and a U.S. Senator 2001-2009. In early 2007, Hillary Clinton announced her plans to run for president. During the 2008 Democratic Primaries, she conceded her nomination when it became apparent that Barack Obama held a majority of the delegate vote. After winning the national election, Obama appointed her as Secretary of State.

Senator, lawyer, former First Lady. Hillary Diane Rodham was born on October 26, 1947 in Chicago and raised in Park Ridge, Illinois, a picturesque suburb located 15 miles northwest of downtown Chicago.

She was the eldest daughter of Hugh Rodham, a prosperous fabric store owner, and Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham. Hillary had two younger brothers, including Hugh, Jr. (born 1950) and Anthony (born 1954).

As a young woman, Hillary Rodham was active in young Republican groups and campaigned for Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater in 1964. She was inspired to work in some form of public service after hearing a speech in Chicago by the Reverend Martin Luther King and became a Democrat in 1968.

Rodham attended Wellesley College; she was active in student politics and was elected Senior Class president before she graduated in 1969. She then attended Yale Law School, where she met Bill Clinton. Graduating with honors in 1973, she also attended one post-graduate year of study on children and medicine at Yale Child Study Center.

Hillary worked at various jobs during her summers as a college student. In 1971, she first came to Washington, D.C to work on U.S. Senator Walter Mondale's subcommittee on migrant workers. In the summer of 1972, she worked in the western states for the campaign of Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern.

In the spring of 1974, Rodham became a member of the presidential impeachment inquiry staff, advising the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives during the Watergate Scandal. After President Richard M. Nixon resigned in August, she became a faculty member of the University of Arkansas Law School in Fayetteville, where her Yale Law School classmate and boyfriend Bill Clinton was teaching as well.

Rodham married Bill Clinton on October 11, 1975, at their home in Fayetteville. Before he proposed marriage, Clinton had secretly purchased a small house that she had remarked that she liked. When he proposed marriage to her and she accepted, he revealed that they owned the house. Their daughter, Chelsea Victoria, was born February 27, 1980.

In 1976, she worked on Jimmy Carter's successful campaign for president while husband Bill was elected Attorney General. He was elected governor in 1978 at age 32, lost re-election in 1980, but came back to win in 1982, 1984, 1986 (when the term of office was expanded from two to four years) and 1990.

Hillary joined the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock and in 1977 was appointed to part-time chairman of the Legal Services Corporation by President Carter. As First Lady of Arkansas for a dozen years (1979-1981, 1983-1992), she chaired the Arkansas Educational Standards Committee, co-founded the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families and served on the boards of the Arkansas Children's Hospital, Legal Services and the Children's Defense Fund. She also served on the boards of TCBY and Wal-Mart. In 1988 and 1991, The National Law Journal named her one of the 100 most powerful lawyers in America. During the 1992 presidential campaign, she emerged as a dynamic and valued partner of her husband, and as president he named her to head the Task Force on National Health Reform (1993). The controversial commission produced a complicated plan which never came to the floor of either house. It was abandoned in September 1994.

Steve Jobs ( CEO of Apple company )

Steve Jobs was born February 24, 1955, to two University of Wisconsin graduate students who gave him up for adoption. Smart but directionless, Jobs experimented with different pursuits before starting Apple Computers with Stephen Wozniak in the Jobs' family garage. Apple's revolutionary products, which include the iPod, iPhone and iPad, are now seen as dictating the evolution of modern technology.

Steven Paul Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, to Joanne Simpson and Abdulfattah "John" Jandali, two University of Wisconsin graduate students who gave their unnamed son up for adoption. His father, Abdulfattah Jandali, was a Syrian political science professor and his mother, Joanne Simpson, worked as a speech therapist. Shortly after Steve was placed for adoption, his biological parents married and had another child, Mona Simpson. It was not until Jobs was 27 that he was able to uncover information on his biological parents.

As an infant, Steven was adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs and named Steven Paul Jobs. Clara worked as an accountant and Paul was a Coast Guard veteran and machinist. The family lived in Mountain View within California's Silicon Valley. As a boy, Jobs and his father would work on electronics in the family garage. Paul would show his son how to take apart and reconstruct electronics, a hobby which instilled confidence, tenacity, and mechanical prowess in young Jobs.

While Jobs has always been an intelligent and innovative thinker, his youth was riddled with frustrations over formal schooling. In elementary school he was a prankster whose fourth grade teacher needed to bribe him to study. Jobs tested so well, however, that administrators wanted to skip him ahead to high school—a proposal his parents declined.

After he did enroll in high school, Jobs spent his free time at Hewlett-Packard. It was there that he befriended computer club guru Steve Wozniak. Wozniak was a brilliant computer engineer, and the two developed great respect for one another.

After high school, Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Lacking direction, he dropped out of college after six months and spent the next 18 months dropping in on creative classes. Jobs later recounted how one course in calligraphy developed his love of typography.

In 1974, Jobs took a position as a video game designer with Atari. Several months later he left Atari to find spiritual enlightenment in India, traveling the continent and experimenting with psychedelic drugs. In 1976, when Jobs was just 21, he and Wozniak started Apple Computers. The duo started in the Jobs family garage, and funded their entrepreneurial venture after Jobs sold his Volkswagen bus and Wozniak sold his beloved scientific calculator.

Jobs and Wozniak are credited with revolutionizing the computer industry by democratizing the technology and making the machines smaller, cheaper, intuitive, and accessible to everyday consumers. The two conceived a series of user-friendly personal computers that they initially marketed for $666.66 each. Their first model, the Apple I, earned them $774,000. Three years after the release of their second model, the Apple II, sales increased 700 percent to $139 million dollars. In 1980, Apple Computer became a publically traded company with a market value of $1.2 billion on the very first day of trading. Jobs looked to marketing expert John Scully of Pepsi-Cola to help fill the role of Apple's President.

However, the next several products from Apple suffered significant design flaws resulting in recalls and consumer disappointment. IBM suddenly surpassed Apple sales, and Apple had to compete with an IBM/PC dominated business world. In 1984 Apple released the Macintosh, marketing the computer as a piece of a counter culture lifestyle: romantic, youthful, creative. But despite positive sales and performance superior to IBM's PCs, the Macintosh was still not IBM compatible. Scully believed Jobs was hurting Apple, and executives began to phase him out.

In 1985, Jobs resigned as Apple's CEO to begin a new hardware and software company called NeXT, Inc. The following year Jobs purchased an animation company from George Lucas, which later became Pixar Animation Studios. Believing in Pixar's potential, Jobs initially invested $50 million of his own money into the company. Pixar Studios went on to produce wildly popular animation films such as Toy Story, Finding Nemo and The Incredibles. Pixar's films have netted $4 billion. The studio merged with Walt Disney in 2006, making Steve Jobs Disney's largest shareholder.

Despite Pixar's success, NeXT, Inc. floundered in its attempts to sell its specialized operating system to mainstream America. Apple eventually bought the company in 1997 for $429 million. That same year, Jobs returned to his post as Apple's CEO.

Much like Steve Jobs instigated Apple's success in the 1970s; he is credited with revitalizing the company in the 1990s. With a new management team, altered stock options, and a self-imposed annual salary of $1 a year, Jobs put Apple back on track. His ingenious products such as the iMac, effective branding campaigns, and stylish designs caught the attention of consumers once again.

Early in 2009, reports circulated about Jobs' weight loss, some predicting his health issues had returned, which included a liver transplant. Jobs had responded to these concerns by stating he was dealing with a hormone imbalance. After nearly a year out of the spotlight, Steve Jobs delivered a keynote address at an invite-only Apple event September 9, 2009.

In respect to his personal life, Steve Jobs remained a private man who rarely discloses information about his family. What is known is Jobs fathered a daughter with girlfriend Chrisann Brennan when he was 23. Jobs denied paternity of his daughter Lisa in court documents, claiming he was sterile. Jobs did not initiate a relationship with his daughter until she was 7 but, when she was a teenager, she came to live with her father.

In the early 1990s, Jobs met Laurence Powell at Stanford business school, where Powell was an MBA student. They married on March 18, 1991, and lived together in Palo Alto, California, with their three children.

On October 5, 2011, Apple Inc. announced that co-founder Steve Jobs had died. He was 56 years old at the time of his death.

Bill Gates ( Entrepreneur )

Entrepreneur Bill Gates, born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington, began to show an interest in computer programming at the age of 13. Through technological innovation, keen business strategy, and aggressive competitive tactics, he and his partner Paul Allen built the world's largest software business, Microsoft. In the process, Bill Gates became one of the richest men in the world.

Born William Henry Gates III, on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington. Gates began to show an interest in computer programming at the age of 13 at the Lakeside School. He pursued his passion through college. Striking out on his own with his friend and business partner Paul Allen, Gates found himself at the right place at the right time. Through technological innovation, keen business strategy, and aggressive competitive tactics he built the world's largest software business, Microsoft. In the process he became one of the richest men in the world.

Bill Gates grew up in an upper middle-class family with two sisters: Kristianne, who is older, and Libby, who is younger. Their father, William H. Gates, Sr., was a promising, if somewhat shy, law student when he met his future wife, Mary Maxwell. She was an athletic, outgoing student at the University of Washington, actively involved in student affairs and leadership. The Gates family atmosphere was warm and close, and all three children were encouraged to be competitive and strive for excellence. Bill showed early signs of competitiveness when he coordinated family athletic games at their summer house on Puget Sound. He also relished in playing board games (Risk was his favorite) and excelled in Monopoly.

Bill had a very close relationship with his mother, Mary, who after a brief career as a teacher devoted her time to helping raise the children and working on civic affairs and with charities. She also served on several corporate boards, among them First Interstate Bank in Seattle (founded by her grandfather), the United Way, and International Business Machines (IBM). She would often take Bill along on her volunteer work in schools and community organizations.

Bill was a voracious reader as a child, spending many hours pouring over reference books such as the encyclopedia. Around the age of 11 or 12, Bill's parents began to have concerns about his behavior. He was doing well in school, but he seemed bored and withdrawn at times. His parents worried he might become a loner. Though they were strong believers in public education, when Bill turned 13 they enrolled him in Seattle's Lakeside School, an exclusive preparatory school.
While at Lakeside School, a Seattle computer company offered to provide computer time for the students. The Mother's Club used proceeds from the school's rummage sale to purchase a teletype terminal for students to use. Bill Gates became entranced with what a computer could do and spent much of his free time working on the terminal. He wrote a tic-tac-toe program in BASIC computer language that allowed users to play against the computer.

It was at Lakeside School where Bill met Paul Allen, who was two years his senior. The two became fast friends, bonding on their common enthusiasm over computers, even though they were very different. Allen was more reserved and shy. Bill was feisty and at times combative. They both spent much of their free time together working on programs. Occasionally, they disagreed and would clash over who was right or who should run the computer lab. On one occasion, their argument escalated to the point where Allen banned Gates from the computer lab. On another occasion, Gates and Allen had their school computer privileges revoked for taking advantage of software glitches to obtain free computer time from the company that provided the computers. After their probation, they were allowed back

Barack Obama ( Politican )

Barrack Hussien Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4^th, 1961 to a Kenyan father and an American mother. Obama’s parents, Barrack Obama Sr. and Ann Dunham met while studying at the University of Hawaii.

Obama spent his early years in Honolulu before moving to Indonesia at the age of six. Obama’s parents separated when he was two years old. His mother later married Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian. The family moved to Jakarta in1967.

After staying for four years in Indonesia, Obama returned to Honolulu to study at the Punahou School. He studied at the Occidental College in Los Angels for two years before moving to the Colombia University in New York City. Obama graduated in 1983 with a major in Political Science and a specialization in International Relations.

After his graduation, Obama worked at the Business International Corporation and the New York Public Interest Research Group. In 1985, he moved to Chicago to work as a community organizer. Later, in 1988, Obama joined the Harvard Law School. He went on to become the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. He graduated from the Law school in 1991.

Barrack Obama met Michelle Robinson in 1989, whom he married in 1992. Michelle and Barrack have two daughters.

Barrack Obama played several roles professionally between 1993 and 2004. He worked as a lawyer for the law firm, David, Miner, Barnhill and Galland. He also worked as a part-time lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School from 1993 to 2004; he taught constitutional law at the law school.

Barrack Obama has been voted as 44^th president of the USA. He won the election battle against John McClain. He is the first Afro-American president.

Barrack Obama has been dubbed as the most liberal Senator in his political life. In his personal life, he plays basketball and claims to be a good poker player.

    

Michel Jackson ( Singer )

Dubbed the King of Pop, singer-song writer Michael Jackson was born in Gary, Indiana on August 29, 1958. As a child, he was lead singer of the Jackson family's popular Motown group, The Jackson 5. Michael Jackson went on to become one of the most internationally famous award-winning solo pop sensations to date. His 2009 death stirred controversy and was ultimately ruled an accidental overdose.

Jackson was born August 29, 1958, in Gary, Indiana, to an African-American working-class family. His father, Joseph Jackson, had been a guitarist but had put aside his musical aspirations to provide for his family as a crane operator. Believing his sons had talent, he molded them into a musical group in the early 1960s. At first, the Jackson Family performers consisted of Michael's older brothers Tito, Jermaine, and Jackie. Michael joined his siblings when he was five, and emerged as the group's lead vocalist. He showed remarkable range and depth for such a young performer, impressing audiences with his ability to convey complex emotions. Older brother Marlon also became a member of the group, which evolved into the The Jackson.

Behind the scenes, Joseph Jackson pushed his sons to succeed. He was also reportedly known to become violent with them. Michael and his brothers spent endless hours rehearsing and polishing up their act. At first, the Jackson 5 played local gigs and built a strong following. They recorded one single on their own, "Big Boy" with the b-side "You've Changed," but it failed to generate much interest.
The Jackson 5 moved on to working an opening act for such R&B artists as Gladys Knight and the Pips, James Brown, and Sam and Dave. Many of these performers were signed to the legendary Motown record label, and it has been reported that Gladys Knight may have been the one to tell Motown founder Berry Gordy about the Jackson 5. Impressed by the group, Gordy signed them to his label in 1968.

Relocating to Los Angeles, Michael and his brothers started work on their music and dancing with their father as their manager. They lived with Gordy and also with Supremes singer Diana Ross when they first arrived there. In August 1969, the Jackson 5 was introduced to the music industry at a special event, and later served as the opening act for the Supremes.

Their first album, Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5; hit the charts in December of that year. It's first single, "I Want You Back," hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in January 1970.

At the age of 13, Jackson launched a solo career in addition to his work with the Jackson 5. He made the charts in 1971 with "Got to Be There" from the album of the same name. His 1972 album, Ben, featured the eponymous ballad about a rat. The group became so popular that they even had their own self-titled cartoon show, which ran from 1971 to 1973. 

Meanwhile, the Jackson family has attempted to move forward with their lives. As dictated in his will, Jackson's children were placed in the care of their grandmother, Katherine Jackson. In respect to their father's wishes, Paris, Prince Michael and Prince Michael II (also known as "Blanket") have been kept largely out of the limelight, appearing publicly only a few times in the last year. They stepped up to the mic in 2009 to speak to fans at their father's funeral, and again in January 2010 to accept a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award for their father at the Grammys. In June 2010, it was announced that the children were headed to private school in the fall.

Jagad Guru Shree Kripalu Ji Maharaj (Supreme acharya of this age )

Jagadguru Shree Kripaluji Maharaj (sanskrit: जगदगुरु कृपालु जी महाराज) is a Hindu acharya (आचार्य). He is lovingly called Shree Maharajji by devotees and is the 5th original Jagadguru (मुल जगदगुरु), and the Supreme Acharya (जगदगरुततम) of the present age.

Jagadguru Shree Kripaluji Maharaj was born in October 1922 in Mangarh Village India , in a highly respected brahmin family. At the age of fourteen, he was sent to Mahu Sanskrit College, Indore to study Sanskrit literature and grammar where it is believed that he mastered all the subjects within two years.

At the age of sixteen he went to the jungles of Chitrakoot, Sharbhang, Mahoba and Jhansi. For around two years he remained at those places. It was during this time that he is believed to have manifested his ecstatic form and absorption in divine love (महाभाव). Around 1940, he came to Vrindavan and started going to houses of devotees for Satsang. He would travel to the houses of various devotees in Agra, Mathura and Allahabad. On requests of devotees he started giving discourse on various aspects of Bhakti and also started Sankirtana.

Apart from Sankirtan, he also started singing leela pad (describing the loving pastimes of Radha and Krishna). In 1942, he came back to Mahu and started holding long, non-stop sankirtan sessions, sometimes stretching to four months. He frequently visited Mandaleshwar and Maheshwar where he would hold fortnight-long sessions.

Being honoured as the Supreme 'Jagadguru' of the present age: 

In 1955 Shree Kripaluji Maharaj organized a religious convention in which, prominent spiritual leaders of India gathered. Mahamahopadhyay Giridhar Sharma, President of the Kashi Vidvat Parishad had also come and was impressed by Kripaluji Maharaj's learning and scriptural knowledge. In another convention organized in Kanpur in 1956, Shree Raj Narain, Shat Shastree, the Chief Secretary of the Kashi Vidvat Parishad, happened to hear Kripaluji Maharaj's discourses. It would seem that he was impressed by the discourses, because after returning to Kashi, it is believed that he invited Jagadguru Kripaluji Maharaj to give a spiritual discourse to the scholars of Kashi. Kripaluji Maharaj then went to Kashi in 1957.

The congregation had all the scholars of Vanarasi also many from all over the India. They are said to have been impressed by Kripaluji Maharaj's knowledge of all the scriptures ( which include: Vedas, Upanishads, Upvedas, Vedangas, Darshan Shastras, Puranas, Itihas, the philosophies of the other Jagadgurus and the Rasik saints, etc). After speeches which lasted for seven days, the learned scholars of Kashi, requested him to accept the title of Jagadguru. He is thus considered to be the fifth original Jagadguru, the last Jagadgurus being Adi Sankaracharya (509-477 B.C.), Nimbarkacharya (before 600 B.C.), Madhavacharya (13th century) and Ramanujacharya (1017-1137 A.D.).

Discourses of Jagadguru Shree Kripaluji Maharaj are broadcast every day throughout India and Nepal on TV Asia, Aastha TV, Nepal One channel and 'Aaj Tak' news channel, as well as in the USA.. His numerous creations include: 

Prem Ras Siddhant - Philosophy book. Prem Ras Madira 1008 devotional songs. 

Bhakti Shatak - One hundred couplets. Braj Ras Madhuri - Collection of over 300 chantings. Radha Govinda Geet - Eleven thousand one hundred and eleven couplets. Yugal Shatak - One hundred chantings of Barsane-wari Radha Rani and Krishn. Yugal Ras Chantings of Radha Krishn. 

Shree Krishn Dwadashi - Twelve songs in which he has fully described the beauty and the decorations of Krishna, and thirteen songs about the beauty and the decorations of Radha Rani.

Gautam Buddha ( Religious Figure )

Gautam Buddha means the enlightened one. And Gautam Buddha was one of the greatest religious preachers that the world has seen. His teachings expounded in Buddhism, are immensely popular in Burma, China, Japan and other South Eastern Countries.

Gautam Buddha was born in 563 B.C. as Siddhartha, as a son of Shuddhodana, the king of Kapilavastu in Nepal. His mother Mayadevi expired when he was just 7 days old and he was brought up by his stepmother Gautami. Siddhartha was made to lead a very splendid life as the astrologers had predicted that he would give up worldly pleasures to follow a different path. The King wanted to avoid this at all costs and so did not let him out of the palace. He hoped that Siddhartha would one day become King.

When Siddhartha had grown into an intelligent young man, he travelled out of his palace one day and chanced on a few sights that changed the course of his life. He first saw a very old man who could hardly walk, a sick man who was suffering from pain and lastly, a corpse (dead body). He had never been felt such pain before and so these sights had a deep effect on him. His servant explained that pain and death are inevitable.

This made Siddhartha very sad and he started to re think his life and began to try to find the reasons behind the grief and sorrows. Seeing him so thoughtful, his father decided to get him married and get his mind off such serious topics. He was married to a princess called Yashodhara who soon gave birth to a son, Rahul.

Despite this, Siddhartha found no happiness in materialistic pleasures an so left the palace in search of Salvation-‘Mokshya’. He was only 29 years old. He roamed the country, meeting various sadhus and saints in search of inner peace. He lived the life of a hermit and underwent continuous ‘tapasya’ to achieve his purpose, but still could not understand the meaning of reason for life and death.

Finally, one day he reached Bodh Gaya. He was very tired and so sat under the shade of a tree. He shut his eyes and was blessed with a divine light. This was the turning point, as he realized the truth is within every human being. The search outside was pointless. After this, he was as ‘Buddha’ or the enlightened one.

For 45 years, Buddha spread his message of a spiritual life. He did not believe in rituals but pointed to 8-fold paths towards salvation- that of right speech, understanding, determination, deeds, efforts, awareness, thinking and living. According to Buddhism by following this path one could overcome desires, which were the root cause of grief and misery.

The Gautam Buddha died in 483 B.C at the rip age of 80 years, after successfully spreading his massage to the world. Buddhism still lives and has a strong following in various Asian countries.

       

Rabindranath Tagore ( Literary Figure )

Even though, Rabindranath Tagore was most famous as a poet, he was also an artist, novelist, play wright, philosopher and freedom fighter. Or simply, the writer of songs fulfilled with love. His poetry covered a vast range of topics from nature to patriotism.

He has born on 8^th May 1861 in Calcutta to Maharsishi Devendranath, who himself came from a family of nobility, he was the youngest of 14 children. The family was addressed by the honourable title ‘Thakur’ which was later changed to Tagore.

His mother Sharadadevi expired when he was still young and his father rarely spent much quality time with him. As a result, he grew up extremely sensitive and non-conventional. He could not tolerate any kind of authority and so, his schooling suffered. But he made up for all this, with the beautiful, mystical poems that he wrote, right from childhood.

Tagore wrote numerous stories, songs, dramas, letters, diaries and essays on a variety of subjects ranging from religion to science, music to politics, education and social reform. Whatever he attempted had a distinctive style of its own. Even his works of arts are nothing short of masterpieces.

He received the Novel Prize in literature on Nov. 13, 1913, for his most famous work- ‘Gitanjali9is’. This is a collection of poems that talk about life and death, love and its connection to the sprit. His well known novels written in Bengali are Gora, Vibha Raja aur Rani, Nauka Dubi and Binodini.

He expired on August8, 1941, but is immortalised by his work and the love in the hearts of the people of India.

  

  

Rani Lakshmi Bai (Lady Warrior )

Rani Lakshmi Bai was the queen of the princely state of Jhansi, which is located on the northern side of India. She was one of the most leading personalities of the first war of India’s independence that started in 1857. In this article, we will present with the biography of Rani Laxmibai, who was an epitome of bravery and courage.

She was born to a Maharashtra family at Kashi (now Varanasi) in the year 1828. During her childhood, she was called by the name Manikarnika. Affectionately, her family members called her manu.

In the yearly 1853, Gangadhar Rao fell sick and became very weak. So, the couple decided to adopt a child. To ensure that the British do not raise an issue over the adoption, Lakshmibai got this adoption witnessed by the local British representives. On 21^st November 1853, Maharaja Gangadhar Rao died.

Jhansi became the focal point of upspring. Rani of Jhansi began to strength her position. By seeking the support of others, she formed a volunteer army. The army not just consisted of the men folk, but the women were also actively involved. Women were also given military training to fight a battle. 

She took refuge in Kalpi, where she meets Tatya tope, a great warrior. She died on 17^th June, during the battle for Gwalior. It is believed that, when she was lying unconscious in the battle field, a Brahmin found her and brought to an ashram, where she died. For her immense effort, she is referred to as the ‘Icon of the Indian Nationalist Movement’.

       

Mother Teresa ( Social Worker )

About 20 years before India gained its freedom, Christian missionaries from Yugoslavia came to India to render humanitarian services. They were extremely affected by the conditions of poverty spreading in India and so invited people from their country to serve here. Amongst these was a special girl called Agnes Goxa Bojaxiu, who is today know Mother Teresa.

Agnes Goxa Bojaxiu was born on August 27, 1910 and was just 19 years when she came to Calcutta on January 6, 1929. And she never left this country. Her aim in life was to serve the sick and the poor and she dedicated her full life towards this purpose. She would roam the dangerous dark and dirty streets of Calcutta at night, covering the cold and offering food and shelter to the por. When she first arrived in Calcutta, she had just Rs.5.00, and was helped by a priest. She lived in a small room for 9 years, where she nursed the ill back to health. Compassion, dignity and sympathy marked here every action.

Through her efforts she managed to open several institutions e.g. ‘Missionaries of Charity’, ‘Niraml Hariday’ and ‘Shishu Bhavan’ a house for the mentally and physically challenged children to help the downtrodden. Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1979 and the Bharat Ratna in 1980. Besides these, she also received the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International peace (1972), Ramon Magsaysay Award (1962) and the Templeton Foundation Award (1973). As the Mother- General of the Missionaries of Charity, Mother Teresa has a thousand Missionary institutions working under her.

Despite all the public acclaim, national and international honours, Mother Teresa remained humble, kind and generous till the end. The Florence Nightingale of India passed away in September 1997.

      

Mahavir ( Religous Person )

Mahavir is the profounder of one of the popular religions in India-Jainism, who was Born in 599 BC in a village called Kunda in Bihar. His father Siddhartha was an important nobleman from the Kshatriya dynasty. His mother’s name was Trishala. Mahavir was named Vardhaman by his parents and showed signs of spiritualism from his early days. At the age of 5 years, he was sent to a Gurukul to study Sanskrit and became a great scholar.

As on obedient son he married the girl of his parent’s choice- Yashodhara who consequently gave birth to a daughter. But martial ties could not blind him, as he was thirsty for something more. His search compelled him to leave home, with his elder brother’s permission, to understanding the true purpose and meaning if life.

He traveled far and wide, expanding his knowledge and subsequently his perceptions of the world at large. And then, one day he attained ‘Kaivalaya’ or enlightenment while sitting under a tree on the banks of a river. Henceforth, he was to be known as Mahavir, as he was freed from the boundaries of sadness and joy, pain and pleasure.

His teachings were greatly appreciated in North India for 30 years and had in its following, the King of Magadha. He preached that truth and clean living were the priorities in life, as was non-violence. Till today, Janis do not even harm a fly or a mosquito. True Jains tie a cloth around their nose, so as not to breathe in or destroy living organisms in the atmosphere.He died in 527 BC at Parapuri in Bihar. 

Adolf Hitler

Born April 20, 1889, Braunau am Inn, Austria, Adolf Hitler was leader of the Nazi Party 1920-1921 and Fuehrer of Germany 1933-1945. His rise to power began when German president Hindenburg appointed him chancellor of a Nazi in 1932. During World War II, Hitler orchestrated the Nazi's Holocaust under the Third Reich. He died of possible suicide in 1945 in the wake of Germany's defeat.

Hitler's father, Alois (born 1837), was illegitimate. For a time he bore his mother's name, Schicklgruber, but by 1876 he had established his family claim to the surname Hitler. Adolf never used any other surname.

After his father's retirement from the state customs service, Adolf Hitler spent most of his childhood in Linz, the capital of Upper Austria. It remained his favorite city throughout his life, and he expressed his wish to be buried there. Alois Hitler died in 1903 but left an adequate pension and savings to support his wife and children. Although Hitler feared and disliked his father, he was a devoted son to his mother, who died after much suffering in 1907. With a mixed record as a student, Hitler never advanced beyond a secondary education. After leaving school, he visited Vienna, and then returned to Linz, where he dreamed of becoming an artist. Later, he used the small allowance he continued to draw to maintain himself in Vienna. He wished to study art, for which he had some faculties, but he twice failed to secure entry to the Academy of Fine Arts. For some years he lived a lonely and isolated life, earning a precarious livelihood by painting postcards and advertisements and drifting from one municipal hostel to another. Hitler already showed traits that characterized his later life: loneliness and secretiveness, a bohemian mode of everyday existence, and hatred of cosmopolitanism and of the multinational character of Vienna.

In 1913 Hitler moved to Munich. Screened for Austrian military service in February 1914, he was classified as unfit because of inadequate physical vigour; but when World War I broke out he immediately volunteered for the German army and joined the 16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment. He served throughout the war, was wounded in October 1916, and was gassed two years later. He was hospitalized when the conflict ended. During the war, he was continuously in the front line as a headquarters runner; his bravery in action was rewarded with the Iron Cross, Second Class, in December 1914, and the Iron Cross, First Class (a rare decoration for a corporal), in August 1918. He greeted the war with enthusiasm, as a great relief from the frustration and aimlessness of civilian life. He found discipline and comradeship satisfying and was confirmed in his belief in the heroic virtues of war.

Dr. Baburam Bhattarai ( Politican )

Dr. Baburam Bhattarai born in 1954 as a son to Bhoj Prasad Bhattarai and Dharma Kumari Bhattarai at Khoplang of Gorkha District was intelligent child since beginning. Inspired with his maternal uncle he developed and anti-king motive from those early days. The young boy gradually educated himself in politics and not only began to hate monarchy but also actively involved in the movement against it. Now he has proved himself as an intellectual leader of our time and earned the name of the architect of economy of Nepal being first finance minister of the government of republic of Nepal.

Bhattarai has got his early education in local school with Gurukul schooling system and later from mission school. He stood first shattering nation’s previous records as a regular student in S.L.C board. His achievement was exceptional in the sense that he broke the tradition of only the rich urban kids in the cities scoring top results in S.L.C board. Then, he joined Amrit Science Campus for I.sc. as to institutionalize his aim to be a medical doctor. But despite the doctor of human anatomy he achieved the doctor of philosophy in economy to solve the growing economic status of nation.

Due to the greatest interest in mathematics, Bhattarai was attracted to “architectural engineering”. He completed his bachelor degree in architectural engineering from Chandigarh in India. But, he realized that the theoretical knowledge is no more important until it is used in practice. His inner sense haunts him that it would not be possible to reconstruct the Nepalese society only having degrees. Then his early impression of monarchical rule in Nepal began to disturb his mind. He thought no clear about what else would be the alternative to monarchy, but was firmly republicanism.

While studying in India, he established and became the first president of All Nepal India students Union, which had intellectual circles of his time against the Panchayat system in Nepal. Along within he came to be known to Nepalese political leaders of contemporary time. Meantime, in 1980, he happened to meet with Prachanda had a distinct personality with enduring organizational experience. Even though they continue their underground movement for republic Nepal since 2052 B.S.

Bhattarai always took the soft line in party and become famous as soft-liner in party. Different political critics analyzed the relation of Bhattarai with Prachanda widening the opposite relation. But he got favour of many because of his influential role in policy making in the party. It was the policy of Bhattarai in Chunwang conference that leads the party towards soft-liner.