Bammera Potana (1450-1510) was born in Bammera, a village twenty miles away from Warangal, into a Niyogi Brahmin family. His father was Kesanna and his mother was Lakkasanamma. He was considered to be a natural scholar (sahaja panditha) without a teacher. Potana was a very polite gentleman. He was an agriculturist by occupation. Though he […]
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Baddena Bhupaludu
Badden Bhupaludu Baddena Bhupaludu (AD 1220-1280). He was also known as Bhadra Bhupala. He was a Chola prince and was a Vassal under the Kakatiya empress Rani Rudrama Devi during the thirteenth century. He was a pupil of Tikkana, the greatest writer in Telugu. If we assume that the Sumatee Satakam was indeed written by […]
Sri Tallapaka Annamacharya (Telugu: శ్రీ తాళ్ళపాక అన్నమాచార్య)
Sri Tallapaka Annamacharya (Telugu: శ్రీ తాళ్ళపాక అన్నమాచార్య) (May 9, 1408 – February 23, 1503) also known as Annamayya (or) Annamacharyulu is saint composer of carnatic music. Annamayya – Venkateswara’s bard Hailed as the ‘Pada Kavita Pitamaha’, for it was he who gave us the musical form of Pada, Annamacharya (1408-1503) was a forerunner of the […]
Patnam Subramanya Iyer
Patnam Subramanya Iyer was a great vocalist, teacher and composer. He was born in 1845 in Tanjavur to Bharatham Vaidyanatha Iyer, his father. He hailed from a musical tradition: his grandfather was Bharatham Panchanada Sastry, the samasthana vidwan at the court of Serfoji II and his uncle Melatture Ganapati Sastrigal was also a vocalist and […]
Maha Vaidyanath Iyer
Maha Vaidyanatha Iyer Maha Vaidyanatha Iyer was born in 1844 at the small village of Vaiyacheri in the Tanjore District of Tamil Nadu, he was one of four brothers who were to become famous. Vaiyacheri was a great village, with Agatheswarar and Mangala Nayaki as the presiding deities. It gave birth to famous musicians like […]
Subhadra Kumari Chauhan
Subhadra Kumari Chauhan Born – 1904 Died – 1948 Achievements – Subhadra Kumari Chauhan was a distinguished Indian poetess, whose compositions used to be very emotionally charged. Her most well-known composition is Jhansi Ki Rani narrating the life of the brave Jhansi Ki Rani, Lakshmi Bai. Of the entire Hindi literature, it is this poem […]
Mahasweta Devi
Mahasweta Devi Born – 1926 Achievements – Mahasweta Devi is an eminent Indian Bengali writer, who has been studying and writing incessantly about the life and struggles faced by the tribal communities in the states like Bihar, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. Mahasweta Devi is a reputed Indian writer who was born in the […]
Kamala Markandaya
Kamala Markandaya Boston, 21 May 2004 – Indo-British novelist Kamala Markandaya, whose works were first published in the 1950s, passed away Sunday May 18 at her home in the outskirts of London. Markandaya was 80, and had settled in England since the age of 25, following her marriage to Bertrand Taylor. Her daughter Kim Oliver […]
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ph.D., is a world renowned critical theorist whose work has been particularly influential to the field of post-colonialism, for which she is often referred to as having been a pioneer. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak was born on February 24, 1942. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s research interests focus on feminism, Marxism, deconstruction […]
Vikram Seth
Vikram Seth Born: June 20, 1952 Achievement: Won the WH Smith Literary Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for his novel, A Suitable Boy. His travelogue “From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet” won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. Vikram Seth is a famous Indian poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, children’s writer, biographer […]