Ramachandra Guha is a historian, sociologist, biologist, political commentator and a cricket writer. Guha was born in 1958 on 29 April at Dehra Dun in Uttar Pradesh. His father Ram Das Guha was at the time a director at the Forest Research Institute, and his mother was a school teacher. He studied in Doon school … Read more
Ashapurna Devi, a prominent Bengali novelist, born in 1909, in the colonial India which just got jolted by the wave of enlightenment. All of her writings focused on the existing gender discrimination and the emergence and evolution of middle-class Bengali women-their oppression, position, consciousness and conscientiousness, inspirations and of course their fight. She traces how … Read more
Going through the pages of history explains and gives a brief story of how kings won over other. more stories explain kings as a conqueror, more than those in which tells queen as winners; the queen was not there in even the stories as winners. Then comes the trend changer: the queen who fought bravely … Read more
KARVE EARLY LIFE: Irawati Karve, named after the famous Burmese river Irrawaddy was a prominent Indian sociologist, anthropologist, educationist, and a prolific writer. Born in Myanmar where her father Mr. G.H Karmarkar worked in a cotton mill, Karve did her schooling at Huzur Paga boarding school in Pune. She went on to complete her BA … Read more
Polish-born social anthropologist Bronislaw Kaspar Malinowski 1884-1942 who started his career or training in 1910 based in England. He is considered to be one of the most important anthropologists of the 20th century. His methodological innovations and scientific activities he became one of the finest contributors to the speculative anthropology in the field modern science … Read more
Indian Sociologist Yogendra Singh is the founder of the Centre for the study of social systems. He is also a professor of Sociology at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi he is a professor since 1971. On 2nd November 1932 in Jamindar family in Basti district, Uttar Pradesh he took birth. He acquired Masters and … Read more
A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM. This is not just a name but it is the description of the paragon of dedication, resilience, patience, and aptitude, all at once. A man who set the sky as his limited and quite literally rocketed beyond its boundaries. Avul Pakir Jainulabdin Abdul Kalam was one of the most industrious scientists to have blessed India with … Read more
