Main Menu

Tag Archives | women rulers

Subhadra Kumari Chauhan

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 […]

Continue Reading · 0

Shakuntala Devi

Shakuntala Devi

Shakuntala Devi Born – 4 November 1939 Achievements – Shakuntala Devi is an outstanding calculating prodigy of India. On June 18 in 1980, she again solved the multiplication of two 13-digit numbers 7,686,369,774,870 x 2,465,099,745,779 randomly picked up by the computer department of Imperial College in London. And this, she did in 28 seconds flat. […]

Continue Reading · 0

Mahasweta Devi

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 […]

Continue Reading · 0

Kamala Markandaya

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 […]

Continue Reading · 0

Kalpana Chawla

Kalpana Chawla

Kalpana Chawla PERSONAL DATA: Born in Karnal, India. Kalpana Chawla enjoys flying, hiking, back-packing, and reading. She holds Certificated Flight Instructor’s license with airplane and glider ratings, Commercial Pilot’s licenses for single- and multi-engine land and seaplanes, and Gliders, and instrument rating for airplanes. She enjoys flying aerobatics and tail-wheel airplanes. EDUCATION: Graduated from Tagore […]

Continue Reading · 0

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

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 […]

Continue Reading · 0

Anita Desai Biography

Anita Desai Biography

Anita Desai Anita Desai (born 1937) has been touted by “British Writers’” A. Michael Matin as “one of the preeminent contemporary Indian novelists,” even referred to by many as the Mother of the Indian psychological novel genre. Her meticulous depictions of modern Indian life, combined with an elevated level of linguistic skill that frequently enters […]

Continue Reading · 1

Meerabai (मीरां बाई)

Mirabai Mirabai was a well known Hindu mystical poetess, whose writings are praised all over. It is said that, she was a disciple of Shri Guru Ravidas. She is famous for her bhajan compositions. She wrote nearly 1300 prayer songs. Most of her compositions were written in the praise of Lord Krishna. She wrote most […]

Continue Reading · 0