MANNA DEY
 Famous singer

He began his career singing in films in 1943.    His first film was Ram Rajya (1943) and it continued till date. Some of his famous songs were

1.      Oopar gagan vishal.

2.      Pyar hua ikraar hua,                    (Shree 420)

3.      Dil ka haal                                  (Shree 420)

4.      Tum gagan ke chandrama ho.       Sati Savitri)

5.      O meri maina.                             (Pyar Kiye Jaa)

6.      Darpan jhooth na bole...               (Darpan)

7.      Na chahoon sona chandi...           (Bobby)

8.      Shaam dhale jamuna kinare...       (Pushpanjali)

9.      Ek ritu aaye...                              (Sou Saal Baad)

10.  Jeevan chalne ka naam...                (Shor)

11.  Tum besahara ho to...                     (Anurodh)

12.  Poocho na kaise maine rain bitayi   (Meri Surat Teri Ankhen)

13.  Kisne chilman se maara                 (Baat Ek Raat Ki’)

14.  Tere naina talash                            (Talash)

15.  Pyar ki aag mein                            (Ziddi)

16.  Babu samjho ishare (Chalti Ka Naam (Gaadi)

17.  Izzat watan ki humse hai                (Prem Pujari)

18.   Bicchua..                                     ( Madhumati)

19.  Hariyaala sawan                            (Do Bigha Zamin)

20.  Ae mere pyare watan                     (Kabuliwala)

21.  Zindagi kaisi hai paheli                   (Anand)

22.  Ek chatur naar...’                           (Padosan)

23.  Chunri sambhal gori...                   (Baharon Ke Sapne)

24.  Yeh dosti...                                   (Sholay)

25.  Aayo kahaan se Ghanashyam...    (Buddha Mil Gaya

26.  Gori tori paijaniya...                       (Mehbooba)

27.  Aao twist karen...                          (Bhoot Bungla)

28.  Parda uthe salaam..                      ( Dil Hi To Hai)

29.  Laaga chunari mein daag..             (Do)

30.  . Na to karvaan ki talash hai...       (Barsaat Ki Raat),

31.  Phool gendwa na maaro...            (Dooj Ka Chan)

32.  Kasme wade...                            (Upkar)

33.  Yaari hai imaan mera...               (Zanjeer)

34.  Nadiya chale chale re dhara...      (Safar)

35. Jodi hamari...                               (Aulad

36.  Apne liye jeeye...                         (Badal

37.  Kaun aaya mere man ke dwaare... (Dekh Kabira Roya),

38.  Aye meri zohra zabeen...              (Waqt

39.  Nirmal se ladaai...                       (Toofan Aur Diya

40.  Aaja sanam                                (Chori Chori)

41.  Yeh raat bheegi bheegi                (do)

42.  Ae bhai zara dekh ke chalo...’      (Mera Naam Joker

43.  Chalat musafir...                         (Teesri Kasam

44.  Chham chham baaje re...            (Mere Huzoor)

45.  Muskura ladle...                         (Zindagi

46.  Bhay bhanjana                           (Basant Bahar

47.  Sur na saje,                                   ( Do)

48.  Kaal ka pahiya...                     (Chanda Aur Bijli)

49.  ‘Mer i bhains ko danda...          (Pagla Kahin Ka),

50.    last film song ‘Hamari hi mutthi mein akash saara...(Prahaar—1991)

At his old days he settles in Bangalore. He attends now rarely in private functions

. His songs were lipped by famous actors like

1.      Raj kapoor in the films Shree 420, Chori Chori, Mera Naam Joker, Kal Aaj Aur Kal

2.       Shammi Kapoor in Pagla Kahin Ka, Professor, Ujala

3.       Bharat Bhushan in Basant Bahar

4.       Raaj Kumar in Zindagi, Mere Huzoor

5.       Sanjeev Kumar in Sacchaai

Satyajit Ray

He was born on 2^nd May 1921 in Calcutta. His father was Sukumar Ray and mother Suprobha Ray His grandfather’s name was Upendra Kishore Ray. He lost his father at infant stage and was brought up by his mother .He was graduated from Calcutta university in arts Thereafter at the instance of Rabindranath Tagore, he went to study at Viswa Bharati University in Shantiniketan.  He did not complete the course, returned and   joined an advertising agency. There his interest grew in cinema and began writing scripts for films from contemporary novels.
In 1943, he joined a publishing house to design the books in both English and Bengali In 1946; he designed covers for 'Discovery Of India’. Of Jawaharlal Nehru   He started illustrating books.  It is said that while doing the illustrations for an abridged version of 'Pather Panchali' a novel by a famous Bengali writer Bibhuti Bhusan Banerjee, the idea of making a film based on it came in his mind.
 In 1953, with very little money he started but could not continue only two years later with money provided by the Government of West Bengal he finished it the film was well recognized   internationally. That was the beginning with no end to the journey. He started making and directing films one after another till his death His films were
 Aparajito in 1956, Paras Pathar (1957), Jalsaghar (1958), Apur Sansar.in  (1959) Devi  (1960), a documentary film on Rabindranath Tagore in 1961, Teen Kanya (1961), Kanchenjunga (1962), Abhijaan (1962), Mahanagar (1963), Charulata (1964), Kapurush O Mahapurus  (1965). Nayak (1966), with Uttam Kumar in the lead role, Chiriakhana (1967), Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (1968), Aranyer Din Ratri (1969),
Pratidwandi (1970), Seemabaddha (1971)), Ashani Sanket (1973), a documentary film The Inner Eye (1974), Sonar Kella (1974), Jana Aranya (1975
another documentary film, Bala (1976) based on the great Bharat Natyam dancer Bala Saraswati in 1976 Hindi, film Satranj Ki Khiladi (1977), Joy Baba Felunath (1978), Hirak Rajar Deshe (1980), Ghare Baire (1984), Ganashatru (1989), sakha prashaka 1990Agantuk(1992), short telefilms Pikoo (1980), Sadgati (1981). Satyajit Ray received the most prestigious  'Oscar Award' in the year 1992 for lifetime achievements. In 1989, the Government of France awarded him their highest civilian award Le'gion d’honour.   He had also been honoured with Padmashree, Padmabibhushan and Padmabhushanand. . He was awarded the Bharat Ratna, the highest award of the country in 1992.  On 23rd April 1992, he as commonly known as "Manikda or Manikbabu passed away.

Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon

He was born on 3rd May 1896 at Panniyankara in Calicut, Kerala.   His father Komath Krishna Kurup Menon was a lawyer of the Calicut bar The family of Menon was economically sound. Krishna menon were three brothers He had his early education in Tellicherry.  He graduated in Arts from   Madras Presidency College. Thereafter he joined the   Madras Law College   During this time he became associated with Annie Besant and the Home Rule Movement.  He became member of the 'Brothers of Service’ founded by Annie Besant who sent him to England in 1924. Where he founded the India League in 1928 and made it the focal point of nationalist propaganda and activity in England.  He continued to stay in England and became involved with the Labour Party doing the role of its spokesman  .In 1934, he was elected as St. Pancras Borough Councilman on the Labour ticket .He was elected several times and was conferred the Freedom of the Borough
He remained as a barrister in England and became the instrument for India’s freedom struggle and later its transfer of power .He continued to carry the job of battle for his country’s independence He had very good friendship with   Nehru

After independence, in 1953 Krishna Menon became  member of the Rajya Sabha  In  1956, he joined the Union Cabinet as Minister without Portfolio  In 1957  he became Defence Minister. He resigned from the Cabinet in 1962, soon after the Indo Chinese war.  He remained the leader of representative in UNO   till 1962 He was   being credited for evolving the policy of non-alignment and his active role in resolving the Korean and Suez crises. He passed away on October 6, 1974.

Karl Marx

Karl Henrico Marx was born on 5th May 1818 in Prussia to a Jewish family. His father’s name was Heinrich Marx, a lawyer, and mother Henrietta Presburg Marx, a Dutchwoman. They were Jews and so barred from the practice of law. Heinrich Marx became converted to Lutheranism about 1817.His early education began in a Lutheran elementary school. Notably, it was Westphalia, a Prussian nobleman who introduced the young Marx to the ideas of the early French socialist Saint-Simon.   In  1835 Marx matriculated in Bonn University, where he attended courses primarily in jurisprudence along with history, mathematics, literature, and languages, particularly Greek and Latin.  Karl was proficient in French and Latin.  In later years he learned Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Scandinavian, Russian, and English.   In his student days he wrote poems. He was admitted into the University of Berlin, During that time   Berlin had the galaxy of brilliant thinkers researching and challenging existing institutions and ideas, including religion, philosophy, ethics, and politics As a student in Bonn and Berlin, Marx was greatly influenced by the philosophy of Hegel.  While a group of students associated to form   "Young Hegelians… Marx became member of the Young Hegelian circle and was deeply influenced by its prevailing ideas. He stayed there 4 years completing his studies in 1841. And obtained   the degree of doctor of philosophy by the University of Jena

 He turned to writing and journalism for his livelihood. In 1842 he became editor of Rheinische Zeitung he had to then move to Paris, where he first came in contact with the working class and began study of economics In 1845, Marx was expelled from France and moved to Brussels, where he founded the German Workers' party and was active in the Communist League.  With his friend Friedrich Engel’s, the famous Manifesto of the Communist Party known as the Communist Manifesto was. Published, in 1848 Belgian government expelled him, again back to Cologne, became the editor of Neue Rheinische Zeitung   but was again expelled.  Marx finally settled in London for the rest of his life. He took up journalism for livelihood. He was in very much hardships at that time his friend Engel’s saved by the continuous financial support In 1864 Marx founded the International Workingmen's Association in London but dissolved in 1872 to prevent it from falling into the hands of the anarchists Thereafter he confined to offering advice in the matter of socialist and labour movements.

Marx wrote hundreds of articles, brochures, and reports. He published five books during his lifetime. These are .The Holy Family (1845), Misere de la philosophie (The Poverty of Philosophy), in 1847.The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, in 1852, Critique of Political Economy in 1859and, Das Kapital (Capital). , In 1867,

Marx’s formulation

1.:INstitutions shape ideas. Known as the materialistic interpretation of history. 2.Historical evolution is connected with his concept of dialectics.

 3. History a continuing dialectical process, each stage of development being the product of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis

4. Thesis corresponds to the ancient, pre-capitalist period, when there were no classes or exploitation. Antithesis corresponds to the era of capitalism and labour exploitation. Synthesis is the final product--communism, under which capital would be owned in common and there would be no exploitation.

5. Religion is the opium of the people," a cardinal principle in modern communism

In 1843 he married Jenny von Westphalen, The couple had seven children, four of whom died in childhood. three  were Jenny , Laura , and Eleanor. His wife died of cancer in 1881, at the age of 67. Marx remained constantly ill during later days of his life .It is said, excessive smoking, wine drinking, and consumption of heavily spiced foods may have been contributory causes to his various illness He died in his armchair in London on March 14, 1883.

Giani Zail Singh

Giani Zail Singh was born on 5^th May 1916 in the state of Faridkot in Punjab. His father’s name was Sardar Kishan Singh who was an agriculturist .He had three sons.   Zail Singh received nonformal education and equipped through old basics, besides an intensive study of the Sikh Scriptures. Sikh History and Sikh Religion He grew to be a Giani, which means a Scholar. He was well versed in Hindi and Urdu. At his young age he was influenced by the martyrdom of Bhagat Singh. He gradually became interested in country’s politics   in 1938-he set up a branch of the All India Congress in Faridkot. It irked the then Maharaja and as a result he was imprisoned for five years. In solitary confinement. After his release he went outside the state. Meanwhile he was attracted by Mahatma Gandhi's message of non-violence.

He came back in Faridkot in 1946 to resume the freedom struggle on the lines initiated by Mahatma Gandhi. In the programmed of hoisting the National Flag.  Jawaharlal Nehru attended to hoist the Tricolour.   Zail Singh came close contact with Nehru who found in him a young and promising freedom fighter.

.  After the independence, he became a Member of Rajya Sabha and the Senior Vice-President of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee.  He became Minister in the Government headed by the late Sardar Pratap Singh Kairon in 1962, In March 1972; he became Chief Minister of Punjab. Giani Zail Singh accelerated the pace of Green Revolution and industrialization in the State of Punjab during his time .In 1980 he .became Home Minister in Government of India in Indira Gandhi's Cabinet.  Giani Zail Singh was elected to the highest office of the President of India on July 15, 1982.  He died on 25^th December .1994.

Pandit Motilal Nehru,
Eminent lawyer and politician,

He was born on 6th May1861 in Delhi. His father named Gangadhar was a police officer. His grandfather, Lakshmi Narayan, was the first pleader of the East India Company at the Mughal Court of Delhi.  His mother’s name was Jeorani    Motilal had his early education at Khetri in Rajasthan, where his elder brother Nandalal was a lawyer. Nandalal shifted to Agra. To practice law in 1870 and thereafter settled in Allah bad.   Meanwhile Motilal passed the matriculation examination and admitted the Muir Central College at Allahabad. He decided to become a lawyer, topped the list in the Vakil's examination in 1883, started as lawyer at Kanpur, but later shifted to Allahabad his brother’s place of practising at the High Court.  Nandlal died in April 1887 at young age, leaving behind five sons and two daughters. Young Motilal found himself, at twenty-five, as the head of a large family, its sole bread-earner  .In 1888 he married Swarup Rani who gave birth to a son, named Jawaharlal and later two daughters Vijayalakshmi Pandit in 1900 and Krishna Hutheesing in 1907 In 1900 he purchased a house at Allahabad, rebuilt it, and named it Anand Bhawan   In  1905 Jawaharlal was sent to England for admission at Harrow. School, London. From Harrow, Jawaharlal went to Cambridge where he appeared at an honours examination for primary degree in Natural Science before being enrolled to the Bar in 1912. Motilal's early incursions into politics were reluctant, brief and sporadic. . In 1907 he presided over a Provincial conference of the Moderate politicians at Allahabad.   In 1909 he was elected a member of the U.P. Council. He attended the Delhi Durbar in 1911 in honour of the visit of King George V and Queen Mary, became a member of the Allahabad Municipal Board and of the All India Congress Committee. He was elected President of the U.P. Congress... Motilal was impressed by Gandhiji's plans for the breach of the salt laws He was arrested and imprisoned; was released due to bad health.  Motilal had the satisfaction of having his son as a disciple of Gandhiji. On February 6, 1931 he passed away. In  Luck now

      TONY BLAIR
(Anthony Charles Lynton Blair)

He was born, on 6th May 1953, in Edinburgh, Scotland. . His father’s name was Leo Blair, a lawyer and active member and chairman of the Durham Conservative Association. Tony had his elementary education in Durham and enrolled in Fetes College of Edinburgh from 1966 to 1971 before going on to study law at St. John’s College of Oxford University in 1972 and. in 1975 h e got his graduation. During Oxford, he developed an active interest in national politics and gradually became active member of the legal chambers and member of the Labour Party in 1976.and remained a practicing barrister from 1976 to 1983 Blair’s first successful foray into politics came in 1983, when he was elected to Parliament as a Labour MP from Sedge field, near his hometown of Durham. He served as opposition speaker from 1984 to 1988 for treasury trade and industry affairs. Blair was elected leader of the Labour Party in 1994,. He placed a new party emphasis on free enterprise and economic reform, coining the slogan “New Labour, New Britain.” Blair’s aggressive pursuit of modernization proved effective. By the end of his first year as party leader, Labour membership had increased by more than 150,000 people and the party had gained a strong lead in public-opinion polls. In May 1997, Blair was elected Prime Minister. And in June 2001, Blair again swept to victory in the general election soundly defeating his Conservative opponent. And he is the present PM of UK. Blair married Cherie Booth, a fellow barrister in 1980 they have four children.

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore was born in Calcutta, West Bengal on May 7,1861. His father's name was Majority Debendranath Tagore, and his mother was Sharada Devi. Rabindranath Tagore was fourteenth of fifteen children born to Maharshi Debendranath Tagore and Sarada Devi.

He received his education at home. He began writing poems when he was of eight year old. He did have a brief spell at St Xavier's Jesuit school His father wanted him to become a barrister and thus in 1879 he was sent at University College, London, but was called back home in 1880. By l883 he married Bhabatarini (Mrinalini), They had four children From 1890, he had undertaken the management of his family estates. 
In 1901 he founded the famous Shantiniketan near Calcutta which later in 1918. Became the Viswa Bharathi University This was designed to provide a traditional ashram and Western education. He began with 5 pupils and 5 teachers.
In 1912, he visited Britain and his own English translation of Gitanjali was published

In 1913, he was awarded the famous Nobel Prize. Harold Hjarne, Chairman of the Nobel Committee of the Swedish Academy, announced the award of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Rabindranath Tagore on November 13, 1913. Rabindranath, then 52 years old, was the first Asian to receive the award. It was given for his English version of Gitanjali   He used the prize money to improve his school at Shantiniketan He was knighted in 1915 by the British Empire but renounced it in 1919 in protest following the Jhallianwallah Bagh massacre   in Punjab. He was not politically motivated but intended to harmonise the views of east and west
 He was a Poet, playwright, novelist, short story writer, essayist, musician, artist, actor, director, educator, philosopher and activist On August 7, 1941, he passed away in the same house in which he was born. In 1947 India adapted Rabindranath’s poem “Janaganamanadhinayaka “as its national anthem and thus honoured the greatest poet of India. Bangladesh in 1971 also honored the poet by adapting his poem ‘Amaar sonar bangla “as its national anthem 

Mrinal Sen
  Eminent   film Director

RAJA RAMMOHAN ROY

Rammohan Roy was born on 22^nd May 1772 in the village of Radhanagar in Hoogly district of Bengal. His father Ramayana Roy was a big zaminder. His mother’s name was  Tarini devi.  His early education started in village and at Patina where he was taught Sanskrit Arabic, Persian, and English .He wrote a book against     deity- worshipping when he was sixteen... This created anger in the society and god-fearing people He left home and. travelled around the country to leknow his country and socio-economic conditions customs and practices in different societies. Meanwhile his father died he came back home he got a job in the Rangpoor collectorate. Lastly as deputy collector In 1816 he left the job and settled in Calcutta. where he started his thoughts for implementation. He started reform movements against evil and prevailing customs of the society, like child marriages, polygamy, sati daho (burning of widows in the funeral pyre of their dead husbands), unsociability. He was in favour of  the spread of the English education in India. To clean up the corrupt society at that time. He   founded Brahmho Samaj’ in 1828 with the like-minded people   who thought that there should be one god and do not stick to image worship. And akin to religious and social reforms. He became the genuine promoter of English learning in the country and fought conservative Hindu and Christian Missionaries simultaneously In 1828 the British Parliament gave him the title ‘Raja’ He went to England to discuss on the ‘Reform Bill’ in 1831.He passed away on 27th Sept, 1831. His unfinished works and agendas were taken up later by Pandit Iswar chandra Vidyasagar, Swami Vivekananda and Sister Nivedita and others.

Joseph Kennedy

Youngest president of the United States, He was born on May 29, 1917, in Brookline; Massachusetts He had eight brothers and sisters. His fathers name was Jacqueline Kennedy and mother's Rose Kennedy. His early education started a t Canterbury School in New Milford, and at Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut. He studied for a brief spell at the London School of Economics in1935. He graduated from Harvard University in 1940. During World War II, he was a navy officer fought with Japanese destroyer in August 1943, After the war, Kennedy worked for several months in 1945 as a reporter for the Hearst newspapers, In 1947, he became a Democratic Congressman from Boston, and in 1952, became member of Senate. Kennedy became Democratic vice president in 1956, and four years later in 1960 he became the 35th president of the United States, the youngest president ever elected, defeating Nixon Major contribution: -Civil Rights reform. policy of aiding developing nations ,federal desegregation policy in schools and universities, formation of the Alliance for Progress and the Peace Corps, and so on. Kennedy slowed the arms race with his rival power USSR in1963 by negotiating a partial nuclear test ban treaty. On November 22, 1963, he was assassinated by remote bullet in Dallas, Texas by the. Alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. He married Jacqueline Bouvier on September 12, 1953, and he had two children.

 D Devegowda

His full name is Haradanhalli Doddegowda Deve Gowda.He was born in Haradanahalli village in erstwhile Mysore state on 18^th May 1933. The family was an agricultural family in the hassan district of the State He had his early education in the village After passing matriculation examination, he enrolled into Civil engineering courses and obtained a degree on Engineering He, for a brief spell worked as contractor He became involved in village and local politics He was interested in national politics and thus he joined the congress party in 1953 at the age of twenty. He was elected in the Legislative assembly of Karnataka in 1962 for the first time and thus began his journey. He continued to win for four consecutive terms, being a leader of the people of Karnataka.   In 1980 his career graph touched golden sticks, he became Minister I of irrigation and PWD He became Chief Minister of Karnataka in 1995, Meanwhile he became the Member of Parliament  (1991-96) In June 1996, he became Prime Minister of India and the first Prime Minister from the South India and remained     the head of the United Front Alliance, of 13-parties Deve Gowda became MP again in 2001 and now again in 2004.  He was a man of integrity and committed to poor.