Dream Girl of Indian Cinema; Kisi Shayar Ki Gazal – Dream Girl!; Kisi Jheel Ka Kamal – Dream Girl! - This Kishore Kumar and Laxmikant – Pyarelal’s Hindi film song penned by Anand Bakshi was a hit in 1977. Cinema houses were full of promotional posters of this ethereal beauty for the recent release of the 1977 movie, Dream Girl. But the lead actress was already famed for being the Dream Girl!

His stories were so heart-touching and real that, the great Bengali novelist Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay gave him the title of “Upanyas Samrat”. An empathetic Hindi storyteller, this novelist left no stone unturned to unravel the rural miseries in colonial India.

When it comes to bowling, his name in the Indian Cricket team shines out. His international ventures were full of major stints like the knuckleball technique, which made bowling an important game. His stellar performance pushed the Cricket commentary to widen its periscope and credit the pace bowlers who ruled the pitch!

How did a day in Indian history marking the bloodshed of 363 people became a day now dedicated to celebrate and protect the forests? Read the story of brave hearts behind the National Forest Martyrs Day observed today

Urdu is counted amongst the most poetic languages across the world, thanks to the writers like Firaq Gorakhpuri who gave Urdu its due credit in the times when India was facing the language debate. His arrest by the British is a testimony of his revolutionary writing style!

Add a few symphonies of synthesizer, a bit of electric guitar, and a bit of indie-folk; now jingle the concoction and voila! Pop music made its rocking entry in Bollywood movies with this Bling King!

The three times Chief Minister of Kerala, he had been on several hide and seek ventures for being a part of the most bizarre, and sparking events that transpired before and after the independence of India.

Uday Shankar, the eminent dancer and teacher was the father of modern Indian dance who pushed Indian dance forms to international recognition and limelight.

The 21st century is the century of making the world a harmonious global village. The United Nations recognises the link binding us to the cause which has made us just a flight away from each other.

Of all the offices R. Venkataraman held as a Minister, his tenure as Minister of Defence served to a greater cause in India, as he transferred Dr A P J Kalam to the missile program to initiate India’s first-ever Integrated Guides Missile Development Program.