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« Reply #6 on: May 04, 2012, 05:59:09 AM »

7. Kalpana Chawla:



Kalpna Chawla was born to Banarsi Lal Chawla and Sanjogta Kharbanda in Karnal, Haryana India on July 1, 1961, and she was one of the seven crew members who died on February 1, 2003, after the disintegration of the Space Shuttle Columbia on reentry into Earth’s atmosphere during mission STS-107. She received the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. She received her early education from Tagore Public School Karnal. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh in 1982, and a master’s from the University of Texas, Arlington, and a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder. As an Indian American Astronaut with NASA, she is a permanent chapter in the history of space engineering. She was posthumously awarded the NASA Space Flight Medal and the NASA Distinguished Service Medal.

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« Reply #7 on: May 04, 2012, 06:00:17 AM »

8. Lakshmi Mittal:



Lakshmi Niwas Mittal, commonly known as Lakshmi Mittal, was born in Sadulpur, Rajasthan, India on June 15, 1950. He is the chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steel manufacturing company. He was educated at St. Xavier’s College, Calcutta. He is best known as a steel tycoon. In addition to being Chairman and CEO of AcelorMittal, he is also Director of Goldman Sachs, owner of Karrick Limited, Co-owner of Queens Park Rangers F.C. He is the richest man in India, the U.K., and Asia, the second richest in Europe, and the sixth richest person in the world with personal wealth over $20.7 billion. He is the 44th most powerful person of the Forbes list of 68 people. Financial Times named him “Person of the Year” in 2006 and the Times counted him as one of the “100 Most Influential Persons in the World.” In the recorded history of the world, the wedding of his daughter Vanisha Mittal was the most expensive.
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« Reply #8 on: May 04, 2012, 06:01:04 AM »

9. Mirza Ghalib:



Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib was born to Abdullah Baig and Izzat-ul-Nisa Begum in Agra, Mughal Empire on December 27, 1797 and died in Delhi, Punjab in British India on February 15, 1869 at the age of 72. He was the most famous and greatest poet of Urdu and Persian. Last Moghul Emperor of India, Bahadur Shah Zafar, was a poet himself and was tutored by the famous poet “Zauq” who was Ghalib’s rival. Both Ghalib and Zauq, however, agreed upon the greatness of Meer Taqi Meer, best known for his simplicity and meaningfulness of his “Ghazal” the most popular genre of Urdu and Persian poetry. The Emperor honored Mirza Ghalib with three titles; Najm-ud-daula, Dabir-ul-Mulq, and Mirza Nosha. Diwan-i-Ghalib is the most known book of poetry in Pakistan and India.
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« Reply #9 on: May 04, 2012, 06:02:39 AM »

10. Kundan Lal Saigal:



Kundan Lal Saigal was born to Amarchand and Kesar Bai in Jammu, British India on April 11, 1904 and died in Jalandhar, Punjab, India on January 18, 1947 at the age of 42.  He was the most famous vocalist, actor, and playback singer of his time. He was a school dropout and did some odd jobs like time keeping for the railway and salesmanship for Remington Typewriters prior to being introduced to the film industry. In 1933 his four “Bhajans” in the film Puran Bhagat made him known throughout India. Later on he emerged as the most remembered superstar of the Indian film industry. Saigal was an idol for the post-independence generation by virtue of his unique voice. Among those who idolized his voice were the superstars like Lata Mageshkar, Mohammad Rafi, Mukesh, and Kishore Kumar.

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Fame is what came effortlessly to a few who neither cared nor dreamed of it, and it fell into their hands like ripe fruit. Contrarily, quite a few others strove hard, though, to capture it and yet failed to see its glimpses. Some acquired and lost it quicker than they thought, and others retained it even after their death without any effort on their part.
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