The polyester prince who sold bhajia ( indian dish) at village fairs, Dhirubhai AmbaniIndia too has its share of rags to riches heroes. And Dhirubhai Ambani is one of the best known among them. This founder of Reliance Industries was one of the three sons of Hirachand bhai, a school teacher, and Jamanaben. He also[…]
Saina Nehwal ranks third among the top singles badminton players in the world and is the only Indian to have reached the singles quarter finals at the Olympics, and won the World Junior Badminton Championships in 2008. Saina was born in Hisar, Haryana,India and spent her complete life in city of Hyderabad. Her foray into[…]
Known to be a terror during his heyday, Makhan had the unique distinction of beating the legendary Milkha Singh in 400m in the Calcutta nationals in 1962.Makhan Singh also won a gold medal in the 4x400m relay event and a silver medal in the quarter-mile race in the 1962 Jakarta Asian Games. In 1964, he[…]
Oprah Winfrey Best known for her multi-award-winning talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show — the highest-rated program of its kind in history — Oprah Winfrey is dubbed as the ‘Queen of all media’ and ranked as the richest African-American of the 20th century.She was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother.[…]
Twenty -six- year old Siddu S Lohte is blind by birth, and nurses a vendetta of sorts. He wants to pass IAS and serve as Deputy Commissioner in Belgaum to prove a point to his family that virtually banished him.Lohte of Kakamani in Athani taluk of Belgaum is preparing for IAS prelims. Gifted with an[…]
Nothing not even diarrhoea, internal bleeding or a sprains hip muscle could stop David Grier. The 52-year-old hotelier from South Africa, an asthmatic, who just completed a 93-day, 4,000-km run from Kashmir to Kanyakumari to create awareness on asthma and raise money for cleft-lip surgeries, was fired by the desire to reach his goal. “There[…]
Siem Reap campus and a real estate entrepreneur, and was moved by his story.In his own words, Phann is part of generation defined by loss. Now 34 years old, his survival is a miracle — the Khmer Rouge killed one out of every five Cambodians during their three year terror. This genocide did more than[…]
India`s women hockey captain Ashunta Lakra hardly imagined she would one day literally step into the shoes of her brother Bimal Larkra when she took the hockey international`s old pair of shoes to practice on the Astroturf ground here.”I took my brother Bimal`s old pair as practising without a pair of good shoes can lead[…]
Abhishek Kumar Bharti, son of a poor shoemaker from Kanpur, whose family lives in a 10×10 house has cracked the entrance examination of the most premier institute of the country IIT.The son of a cobbler, Abhishek has managed to beat the odds and make it to the IIT with a rank of 154 in the[…]
Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle in a family having rich business, political and community service background. His great-grandfather was a state legislator and a mayor, his grandfather was vice president of national bank and his father was a lawyer.Bill believed in achieving his goals through hard work. He also believes[…]