Posts

Showing posts from October, 2017

MIRZA GHALIB

Image
Ghalib is regarded as the most important Urdu-language poet of the nineteenth century. Praised in particular for his artful use of the short lyric form known as the ghazal, he also wrote poetry in other forms, numerous volumes of letters, and a compelling account of the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, an attempt by natives of India to overthrow British colonial rule. Ghalib was born into an aristocratic Muslim family in Agra. Orphaned at age five, he was reared with his brother and sister by maternal relatives. Ghalib started writing poetry in both Urdu and Persian as a child. At age thirteen, he married and moved to his wife's home in Delhi, where, except for occasional travel, he resided the rest of his life. In Delhi he made the acquaintance of several prominent and influential poets and wrote both occasional and lyric poetry for patrons at the Mughal court. In 1827, Ghalib made a business trip to Calcutta and met a number of writers and scholars in that city and in Lucknow, gain...

Smita Patil

Image
Smita Patil was a leading actress of Bollywood who won the heart of millions with her natural acting skills. She was born in1955, in Pune. Her mother was a minister and a social-worker. She studied at a Marathi medium school in Pune and graduated from Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. She was married to Raj Babbar, the Hindi film actor .  Smita Patil entered Bollywood after a brief stint as a TV news reader. Shyam Benegal casted her in the children's film Charandas Chor (1975), and offered a short role in Nishant (1975). Her first major role was Benegal's Manthan, here she plays the role of a woman who leads a Harijan revolt. Next was Benegal's Bhumika, which was a biography of Indian actress Hansa Wadkar. Smita strongly believed in realistic cinema and did films like Gaman, (1979) and Chakra, (1981). Govind Nihalani's Aakrosh is another feather in her cap, where she played the role of a tribal woman who is brutally raped and murdered. In 1981, sh...

yashwant sinha

Image
Sinha was the finance minister until 1 July 2002, when he exchanged jobs with foreign minister Jaswant Sinha. Sinha, during his tenure, was forced to roll back some of his government's major policy initiatives for which he was much criticised. Still, Sinha is widely credited for pushing through several major reform measures that put the Indian economy on a firm growth trajectory. Among them are lowering of real interest rates, introducing tax deduction for mortgage interest, freeing up the telecommunications sector, helping fund the National highway authority, and deregulating the petroleum industry. Sinha is also known for being the first Finance Minister to break the 53-year tradition of presenting the Indian budget at 5 pm local time, a practice held over from British Rule days that sought to present the Indian budget at a time convenient to the British Parliament (1130am GMT) rather than India's Parliament. Sinha has written a comprehensive account of his years ...

Micheal Roshbash

Image
Michael roshbash described his journey, I am always reluctant to write about my life. When necessary, I follow the advice of the Queen in  Alice in Wonderland . When asked by Alice how to proceed on her journey, the Queen replied, “Start at the beginning, continue until you get to the end, then stop.” Although a length restriction makes this strategy challenging, I will try to follow this chronological advice with only a few exceptions. The first is that I won’t start quite at the beginning, which is not my early childhood or even my birth but the emigration of my parents from Nazi Germany and their new life in the USA. A one-sentence summary of these events is that after some years of trouble and considerable hard work, my parents established a satisfactory if not comfortable life for themselves and their two children. My father then died of a heart attack at forty-two years of age, when I was ten and my brother was six. This tragedy affected the emotional stability of my ...

JEFFREY . C . HALL

Image
American geneticist known for his investigations of courtship behavior and biological rhythms in the fruit fly Drosophila Melanogaster His research into molecular mechanisms underlying biological rhythm in the Fruit fly helped scientists gain new insight into a circadian rhythm, the self-regulating 24-hour biological clock that drives daily behavioral patterns in humans and other animals. For his discoveries, he was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize. in Physiology or Medicine (shared with American scientists Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young). Hall grew up in Washington, D.C He attended Amherst College in Massachusetts, with the intent of later studying medicine. Partway through his undergraduate studies, however, his interests turned to basic science and genetic mechanisms in  Drosophila . Hall studied genetics at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he earned a Ph.D. in 1971. He subsequently carried ou...

MAKE IN INDIA

Image
Make in India is an initiative launched by the Government of India to encourage multinational as well as national companies to manufacture their products in India. Make in India scheme is an initiative to facilitate and augment the manufacturing industry in India. In other words, it can also be said that this program is intended to increase the GDP of the Indian economy. This scheme was launched by Bhartiya Janta Party government (BJP) under the leadership of visionary Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi in the very same year of 2014, to which they come into the majority. Besides promoting manufacturing and employment sector in the country it has set a various  wide array of targets which are meant to change the entire economy of the country positively.  This national program is designed to transform the country into a global business hub as it contains attractive proposals for top local and foreign companies. This campaign focuses on creating number of valuable and hon...

oprah winfrey

Image
     While Winfrey has been cited as the richest African American of the 20th century, she does not come from a rich, or even middle class, family. She was born in an economically troubled neighborhood and raised by a single-teenaged mother in the city of Milwaukee. Oprah, named after a biblical character, had a name no one could pronounce, so her family and friends starting calling her Oprah. After giving her birth her mother left, and traveled north. Oprah while being raised by her grandmother lived in terrible conditions. Oprah during church would recite poems, and verses from the bible. Soon the church and the entire neighbourhood knew she had a gift and was nicknamed, "The Little Speaker". This would soon prompt her to become a woman with a strong perspective, which millions across the world would want to have insight on. This prepared her for The Oprah Winfrey Show. Due to her ability to read and write before the age of three, when enrolled in school ...