Biography

Malala was just 11 when the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan. Despite her very young age, when the Taliban invaded valley and tried to take away what she valued the most in the world, her education, she spoke out and even blogged about it. On 9th October 2012, Malala was shot in ..

Martin Luther King Jr. is a name with which everyone in the USA is very familiar. “I have a Dream”, is the famous speech he rendered before thousands of people in Birmingham, Albania. His dream was to get Civil Rights for the African-American people, who were until then treated as unequal. He had th..

The present book is a collected history of the life and times of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. He has been one of those extremely famous characters of the world history about whom the historians and writers never stopped writing. His genius for war and conquest had upset many a throne while..

Nelson Mandela remains an iconic politician who led the struggle to replace an apartheid regime in South Africa with a multi-racial democracy. He is remembered not so much for being the country’s first black President, but for being the first to have galvanized an entire country against colonial opp..

Mahamana Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya is known for his significant role in India’s Independence and his support to Hindu nationalism. Founder of Asia’s largest University known as Banaras Hindu University, Scouting in India and Ganga Mahasabha, he published an English newspaper ‘The Leader’ from Allah..

Ramakrishna Paramhansa, a famous saint of nineteenth century India was the guru of Swami Vivekanand. He was born in a poor Brahmin family in 1836, in a small town near Calcutta, West Bengal. His life was devoted to mysticism and religious pursuit. A great believer in goddess Kali he often lost consc..

Aurobindo’s ideology and principles embody divinity, ethics, spontaneity and knowledge. He was an accomplished teacher, a profound scholar, writer and a spiritual Guru. For him nationalism was a holy offering to the motherland when viewed from the divine perspective. Aurobindo also played a very pr..

Sometimes, when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.” These words are of Steve Paul Jobs, who revolutionized the world through computer technology. One of the co-founders of Apple, he took the industry towards new heigh..

Give me blood and I’ll give you freedom’, declared Subhash Chandra Bose. This was exactly what he believed in. The moderate ways of the Congress were not for him. Therefore, he formed the Azad Hind Fauj to overthrow the British. Burning with patriotic zeal, he tried his best to oust the British from..

Vinayak Damodar Sarvarkar popularly known as Veer Sarvarkar has a unique place in the annals of history. Controversy surrounds his name. Some consider him to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the freedom struggle of India while others think of him to be a communalist. However, there is no do..

Warren Buffett is most successful and followed investor of the world. He has always been one of the wealthiest people in the world. Besides being richest, he is one of the most known people for donating personal wealth.  Buffett was born in 1930 in Omaha, Nebraska of distant French Huguenot descent..

Before I began to work for the rights of children, I constantly found myself struggling with a ‘why’. Why are some children born to work at the cost of their freedom and childhood? Why do the economic conditions of parents determine a child’s education and future? Why are we employing children of..