Tony jaa

A Muay Thai master whose formidable martial arts skills have dazzled action lovers in such films as Ong_Bak and Tom_Yum_Goong (aka The_Protector), Tony Jaa was first inspired to take up fighting when, at the age of 15, he first saw director Panna_Rittikrai's classic action film Born to Fight. A breathtaking martial arts masterpiece that proved to Jaa there were indeed opportunities for a young action star in Thailand, Born to Fight would inspire the impressionable viewer to begin training harder than ever before. Nicknamed Tony Jaa by Ong_Bak director Prachya_Pinkaew (the "T" in Tony stands for Thailand, and the "Jaa" is the actor's Thai nickname), the talented martial artist is better known in his native Thailand by the name Jaa Panom.


A native of the rural Surin province which is located some 200 kilometers northeast of Bangkok, Jaa took a cue from his Muay Thai-boxer father and began training at the age of ten. It was shortly thereafter that a Jackie_Chanmovie prompted young Jaa to begin a rigorous training regiment that would instill him with the deadly dexterity of his cinematic idol, with a subsequent, junior-high-school viewing of Born to Fight offering a vivid vision of a future in film. Granted permission by his father to seek out Rittikrai and ask permission to become the filmmaker's student, Jaa traveled to the nearby Khon Kaen province to meet the man who could make all of his dreams come true. It was over the course of the next three years that Jaa truly immersed himself in the film industry, rapidly rising through the ranks from water boy to best boy while constantly practicing martial arts during his down time. When Jaa graduated from senior high and Rittikrai recommended that the rising star refine his skills at the University of Physical Education in Sarakam Province; a stint studying Taekwondo, Bushido, Ju-Jitsu, gymnastics, and stick- and sword- fighting at the school provided just the kind of well-rounded education needed to expand his skills and take his career to the next level. Weekend training sessions withRithikrai soon convinced the veteran and star that his young protégé had the skills to truly shine on the big screen, with an invitation to join Rithikrai's skilled stunt team offering Jaa the irresistible opportunity to finally merge the artistry of film with the beauty of martial arts.

Hina Rabbani Khar

Born on 1977 in Multan, Hina Rabbani Khar is the daughter of Ghulam Noor Rabbani Khar and niece of Ghulam Mustafa Khar who are good politicians. Hina Rabbani is a popular Pakistani member of parliament, affiliated with the PPP. In 2003 to 2007, Hina Rabbani Khar served as the State Minister for Economic Affairs and Statistics as National Assembly member of PML-Q.

Education and Career:


In 1999, Hina done B.Sc Economics from Lahore University of Management Sciences and went on to earn a M.Sc. in Management from the University of Massachusetts in 2001. She was named to the World Economic Forum’s list of young global leaders in 2008. Hina Rabbani was elected as a member of National Assembly with a ticket from PPP from the constituency of Muzaffargarh, Punjab.

Saina Nehwal

What does it take to make a badminton star like Saina Nehwal? Ask her father Harvir Singh.

If Saina battles it out on the badminton court against the world’s best players, it has been no less a battle for her father to let her do the same.

Rarely a middle-class family can think of spending half of the monthly income on an eight-year-old child’s training without knowing if the gamble would pay off.

But Harvir Singh, a Scientist with the Directorate of Oilseeds Research Hyderabad, opted to go by the advice of PSS Nani Prasad Rao, the then badminton coach of the Sports Authority of Andhra Pradesh (SAAP), who saw immense potential in the girl.

“I met Nani Prasad Rao in December, 1998, at Lal Bahadur Stadium in Hyderabad. Saina was standing with a badminton racket on the court and he asked her to play. After watching her game, he said,‘She has the potential and if you want to train her, bring her to me as a summer trainee,” Harvir said.

The tough journey had started. Saina had to be taken to the stadium every day early in the morning and the distance from the house was 20 km.

“It was a challenge for both of us because I had to wake up early so that we could reach the stadium by 6 am. The training session used to last for about two hours.

After attending the training session, Saina had to attend school. This way I had to drive my scooter around 50 km daily as Saina, apart from attending rigorous practice sessions, had to concentrate on studies,” her father explained.

The impact of this tough routine began to show in the first week as Saina would often fall asleep on the back seat.

Sensing the danger, Saina’s mother started accompanying them on the two-wheeler. This continued for three months.

Ultimately, the family had to arrange a house near the stadium in 1999. This time the distance was about 7 km from the stadium.

But the travelling ordeal did not end here as Saina was asked to attend evening training sessions as well.

“With an extra training session, the travelling expenditure rose to Rs 150 per day. Added to this was the cost of training. Shuttles, racket, shoes, guttings and what not had to be purchased regularly. I spent around Rs 12,000 every month to keep her going those days,” Harvir said.

But how did the family manage such high-cost training? Saina’s father revealed that he had to sacrifice his savings.

“I started withdrawing money from my provident fund. Sometimes it was Rs 30,000 and other times it was nearly Rs 1 lakh. It happened more than five times when I had to shell out money from my PF savings due to Saina’s various requirements,” said Harvir.

He stated that the tight-rope walk continued till 2002 until Yonex Sunrise sports offered to sponsor Saina’s kit.

“It came as a big relief. Fortunately, she got BPCL support late in 2004. Ultimately, she was spotted by Mittal Sports Trust in December, 2005.

“But I had never disclosed to Saina my financial difficulties fearing that she might get disturbed knowing that her father was left with no savings for the future,” he said.

When asked if they got any help from the sports authorities, the answer said it all.

“Till 2003, she was getting Rs 600 per month from the Sports Authority of India (SAI). It was raised to Rs 2,500 in June, 2003. You can understand how I could have managed,” Harvir said.

Apart from the training cost, hefty telephone bills put extra financial burden on the family when Saina started touring foreign countries for events.

The byte-crazy media played a part too. Wherever she went, be it the Philippines or South Korea, her phone kept ringing.

“A major part of the prize money that Saina got from big competitions like the Philippines Open and World Junior Championship was utilised in paying her mobile bills, which were between Rs 40,000 and Rs 50,000 in the touring months,” he said.

But was the prize money enough when she began her career? “Saina was given just Rs 300 as prize money after winning the under-10 state level competition, held in Tirupati in 1999. The period between 1999-2004 was very trying for the family as we did not get any sponsor for her,” Harvir said.

It was not only the financial burden but the risk of lagging behind on the educational front which added to the pressure.

Saina had to skip examinations twice. She did not take her first year intermediate exams because of the Melbourne Commonwealth Games and later in May, she could not write supplementary exams as she was in the Philippines.

At present she is studying in the second year at Saint Ann’s College, Mehdipatnam Hyderabad. Ironically, the family, despite her big success at the international level, has not been able to celebrate much.

David Blaine (king of street magic)

David Blaine was born April 4, 1973 in Brooklyn New York. He was raised in New Jersey by his single mother Patrice Maureen White. She was a school teacher, however, she took on as many as three jobs just to provide for her and little David.

At age four he saw a street magician perform in a subway; Blaine, fascinated with the magicians card tricks, decided to purchase his first trick, The Pencil Through the Card. David would practice magic with tarot cards given to him by his grandmother who was a gypsy.

Since he did not have the money to go to a magic shop, he spent countless hours in libraries researching magic. There he would read every book he could get his hands on and continued fiddling with his tarot cards.

At age five, he learned what his dream was; after showing a neighbor an effect with the tarot cards, he saw for the first time the impact magic can have emotionally on people. He immediately told his mom he wanted to be a showman and she strongly encouraged him in everyway.

In his teens, he began to develop an interest in acting. He traveled to Manhattan everyday to attend acting school. He did a few commercials and small appearances on soap operas. At sixteen, Blaine levitated for his doctor who immediately took him in for examination.When David was 21, his mother died of ovarian cancer at the age of 48. It was then that he devoted his life to magic.In his early twenty's, David was your regular street magician who got gigs at rich parties.

Because of his talent and mysterious persona, he was able to draw up connections to ABC. After seeing a tape of his magic, the producers requested an interview and began planning a special.

His first TV special, "David Blaine: Street Magic" was born and marked the beginning of a new era in magic for television. The special was not about grand illusions and theatrical lighting, but rather intimate miracles being performed in the streets before real people - a concept that had never been done before on TV. The show was an instant success and David was an overnight celebrity.

He has performed magic for many celebrities, such as Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mike Tyson and President Clinton. David has also made guest appearances on nearly every major talk show of that decade including Oprah, Conan O'Brien, Rosie, Carson Daily, and Howard Stern. Even Comedy Central's SouthPark has an episode featuring him.

Influenced by his idol, Harry Houdini, David Blaine decided to became an endurance artist. His first stunt, getting buried alive for seven days, had the approval of Houdini's granddaughter. He did the stunt to promote his second special, "David Blaine: Magic Man".

Since then, David has been frozen alive, immobilized while standing on a poll over a hundred feet from the ground, viewed hanging from a crane over the River Thames bridge in London and hanging upside down above New York's Central Park for 60 hours.

Most of his stunts usually involve enduring long periods of time without food, drink or sleep. David continues to push the envelope with each stunt.

Bear Grylls

Real Name – Edward Michael Bear Grylls
Date of Birth – 7 June 1974
Birth Place – Isle of Wight, England, UK
Height – 5′ 10¾” (1.80 m)
Spouse – Shara
Children – 3

Records of Bear Grylls

1. Bear Grylls has climbed in Everest and he had returned alive. He has entered in “The Guinness Book of Records” on 26 May 1998. Bare was in 23 year old only.
2. He has broken one record in 2005 by arranging one party on 24,500 feet high at table suspended beneath the warm air balloon.

Career of Bear Grylls
Bear Grylls has started served in SAS (British Special Air Services) from 1994 to 1998. Bare is black belt in Karate. He is very much experienced in climbing mountain. He started Man Vs Wild program at 2006.

Bear Grylls Motivational Speaker
Bear Grylls is also a great motivational speaker. He motivates people towards nature and life. He speaks, how to live life in extreme bad conditions, and then Bare has come in one program of United Kingdom called Man Vs Wild.

Bear gives huge ideas that how to survive your life even in unhappy condition. For this, he spend one week in the unknown and ruler places and let you know the living methods in un-living places.

Man Vs Wild
Man Vs Wild is the program show of Discovery Channel. Man Vs Wild has started at November 10, 2006. Man Vs Wild is being produced by British television production company Diverse Bristol. Bear Grylls shows that how to live in ruler places and extreme unknown places. Bear shows ultimate survival of a man in the show.

Bear is really very brave man. He is also having huge knowledge about the nature, natural foods, forests, animals and living methods. He himself creates the bad situation to let you understand that if you ever met with these accidents then how to come out with that. He makes you believe of nature and natural things. He always says that “A person can live any where in the world, if he or she is having courage to living”. For living your life, only courage is required.

He is continuing with Man Vs Wild. Every Tuesday, his program is been shown in discovery channel. He is telling more and more about survival things in forest. Today is 30 June 2009; I am finishing Biography of Bare Grylls by saying that “Courage is essential for living and surviving”.

Justin Bieber

Birthday: March 1, 1994
Birthplace: Stratford, Ontario, Canada

Listen to 16-year-old singing phenomenon Justin Bieber and you’ll realize he is light years ahead of other pop singers his age. Justin's first release, My World, went platinum and gave him the highest debut by a new artist. Justin was also the first artist to chart seven songs from a debut on Billboard's Hot 100!


It's hard to imagine Justin Bieber without his legion of screaming fans, but Justin had a humble start. After posting dozens of homemade videos on YouTube in 2007, putting his unique spin on songs from artists like Usher, Ne-Yo and Stevie Wonder, Justin racked up over 10,000,000 views on his own.

Arnab Goswami

Arnab Goswami  is an Indian journalist, and the Editor-in-Chief of the Indian news channel Times Now.
Arnab is one of the most respected journalist and an Icon in the media world. His incisive questions and no holds barred interviewing style have made him an icon for viewers. The prime time news show that he anchors has become a 'must watch' amongst English speaking audiences all over India and other neighboring countries.

Arnab began his career in TV Broadcast News with NDTV 24x7 where he did reporting for “News Tonight” a programme telecast on DD Metro. Later as the News Editor, Arnab was part of NDTV’s core team during the transition from programme producer to the 24-hour mode in 1998. He hosted the popular ‘Newshour’ show every weeknight. Newshour was seen as the agenda setting show on the channel and was the longest running news analysis shown on any channel (1998-2003). Newshour won a special mention for its news coverage at the 2003 Asian Television Awards. Among others, it featured the first full length interview with Sonia Gandhi, the government’s first televised account of the IC 814 hijack, full post budget shows with former Finance Ministers, live coverage from Agra during the Indo-Pak summit, reporting from China after the Pokhran tests and from Kathmandu post the royal family massacre riots. As a Senior Editor with NDTV 24x7, he was responsible for the overall editorial content of the channel. He hosted one of the channel’s top rated news analysis show ‘Newsnight’, which won an award for the Best News Anchor of Asia 2004 in the 2004 Asian Television Awards

Snehal Bhatt (Cobra Girl of India)

Snehal Bhatt the Indian Cobra girl. Snehal Bhatt has lead one women crusade to rescue the most dangerous snake Cobra, Pythons, Vipers. She is a social worker who workers 24 hours to rescue these snakes. Snehal Bhatt helps save people and snakes from each other. In a rare tribute, the National Geographic Channel has made a stunning film on this amazing animal activist who stays far away from the arclights preferring to do real work that has little time for publicity.

Bhatt and her volunteers have rescued thousands of snakes and released them in areas far from human habitation. Snehal also needs the villagers’ help in stopping her archenemies, the snake charmers, whose custom of destroying the venom glands ultimately kills the snake.

Snehal’s compassion for animals is matched by her anger at those who abuse them. ” I get very angry whenever I see a snake charmer. It’s like there’s a bomb inside me which is going to blow anytime. I don’t see him as a person at all. I just see how many snakes he’s killed. It’s a kind of thing I’ve developed from seeing these poor animals die daily.

In 1993, she founded the Gujarat Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals [GSPCA]. Aided by a group of volunteers, she runs this society from her home in Vadodara and is on call seven days a week, 24 hours a day.

Snehal Bhatt is an idol for every women. She Empowering Women aims to inspire women with the courage to break free. For those who think women cant do it Snehal Bhatt is the answer for all the men. She challanges and faces all the circumstances alone know the whole world follow’s her. She also filmed in a small documentary on her social work by National Geographic channel.

Zubeen Garg was born in 18 Novemeber, 1972 in Jorhat. His father Mohini Borthakur was a magistrate and his mother late Ily Borthakur was a house wife. He was named after great bollywood music composer Zubin Mehta. His father is a famous poet and lyricist and he used to write with the 'Kapil Thakur'. His mother was also very talented dancer and singer. In his childhood, his family used to travel various parts of Assam for his father's job. The whole family was very talented culturally and even both of his sisters Jonki and Palme.

Zubeen Garg started learning music from his childhood. He first learned Tabla and then assamese folk songs. Slowly he showed his talent in variousinstruments like mandolin, guitar, dhol, etc. He completed his formal education from Jorhat.

Zubeen Garg's debut assamese album 'Anamika' was released in 1992. It was a great hit assam and was start of a new era in Assamese music. This new voice had a special touch with modern age music in the songs. His music had influence of both western rock music and assamese folk music. Zubeen's songs took no time to get place in people's heart.

Zubeen's subesequent albums 'Asha' and 'Maya' were highly appreciated in Assam. He immediately reached the zenith of popularism. His every new album started providing his fans new tastes of music. Album like 'Mukti' had patriotic influences in it's music and lyrics. 'Meghor Boron', 'Xobdo', 'Rang' are albums that were well blended with folk, romantic, tragic music. Songs like 'Xunore Xojuwa' were influnced by both 'Bihu' and patriotism. Album 'Dilruba' was influenced by sufi music.

The album 'Paakhi' was dedicated to his late mother and had great emotional music. Another album 'Xixu'(Shihu), was decicated to his sister Jonki's sudden death who had been his singing copmanion for years. Lyrics of many Zubeen's songs are written by his father Kapil Thakur.

In late 90s, Zubeen went to mumbai to make his position in bollywood. As usual it was not a smooth path in bollywood. After a few hindi albums like 'Chandini Raat','Yuhi Kabhi', 'Shraddhanjali', he finally got the biggest break in Bollywood in the film 'Gangster'. The song 'Ya Ali' was one of the most popular hit of 2006. The song brought him the best playback singer Global Indian Film Awards(GIFA) in 2006. His next hindi album 'Zindagi' was released in 2007 which was highly appreciated.

Luis Lionel Andrés Messi

Birth day: June 24, 1987
Birthplace: Rosario, Argentina
Nationality: Argentinian
Other nationality: Spanish
EU passport: Yes
Height: 169 cm
Weight: 67 kg
Club: FC Barcelona
Position: Forward
Debut: 17 November 2003


Lionel Andrés Messi (born June 24, 1987 in Rosario) is an Argentine football (soccer) player.

Lionel Messi started playing football at a very early age in his hometown's Newell's Old Boys. From the age of 11, he suffered from a hormone deficiency and as Lionel's parents were unable to pay for the treatment in Argentina, they decided to move to Barcelona, Spain.

In the 2003-2004 season, when he was still only 16, Messi made his first team debut in a friendly with Porto that marked the opening of the new Dragao stadium. The following championship-winning season, Messi made his first appearance in an official match on October 16, 2004, in Barcelona's derby win against Espanyol at the Olympic Stadium (0-1).

With several first team players seriously injured, the services of several reserve team players were called upon, and Messi became a regular feature of Barça squads. On May 1, 2005, he became the youngest player ever to score a league goal for FC Barcelona - against Albacete when Messi was only 17 years, 10 months and 7 days old.

He was offered the chance to play for the Spain national football team, but declined, prefering to wait for the opportunity to play for the country of his birth. In June 2004 he got his chance, playing in a U-20 friendly match against Paraguay.
Lionel Messi wearing FC Barcelona's colorsIn June 2005 he starred for the Argentina U-20 team that won the Football World Youth Championship played in The Netherlands.Messi picked up the Golden Boot as top scorer with 6 goals, and the Golden Ball for the best player of the tournament. Despite his youth, Lionel has already drawn comparisons with Diego Maradona, arguably the best football player of all time.

On September 25, 2005 Messi obtained a Spanish citizenship and was finally able to make his debut in this season's Spanish First Division. He had previously been unable to play because FC Barcelona had filled up all of their quota of non-EU players.

Messi's first outing in the UEFA Champions League at the Nou Camp was on Sept 28 against Italian club Udinese. He impressed with some great passing and a seemingly telepathic relationship with Ronaldinho that earned him a standing ovation from the 70,000-odd Nou Camp faithful. On December of that year, the Italian newspaper Tuttosport awarded him the Golden Boy 2005 title for the best under-21 player in Europe, over Wayne Rooney and Lukas Podolski

Omar Abdullah

HE is a Indian Kashmiri politician and the scion of Kashmir's 'first family', the Abdullah family who became the 11th and the youngest Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir after forming a government in coalition with the Congress party, on January 5, 2009.

Prior to this he was a member of 14th Lok Sabha, representing Srinagar constituency of Jammu and Kashmir, India. He was a Union Minister of State for External affairs in Atal Bihari Vajpayee's NDA government, from July 23, 2001 to December 23, 2002, when he resigned from the post in protest against the violence in Gujarat in 2002.

He is the grandson of Sher-e-Kashmir, Sheikh Abdullah, who formed Kashmir�s first political party the Muslim Conference in 1932, which was later rechristen as National Conference. He remained the Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir 1948-1953, and also Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir two times, 1975 and 1977. After his death in 1982, his son Farooq Abdullah dominated the political arena for many years and remained the Chief Ministers of Jammu and Kashmir thrice in 1982, 1986 and 1996. Farooq�s son Omar joined politics in 1998, as a Lok Sabha member, a feat he repeated in subsequent three elections and also remained a Union minister; he took on the mantle of National Conference from his father in 2002, though he lost his own seat of Ganderbal during the 2002 state assembly elections, and so did his party, the political mandate; four year later, he fought once again from the very seat and won in the 2008 Kashmir Elections.


Omar Abdullah born 10 March 1970, is the son of Farooq Abdullah and grandson of Sheikh Abdullah, both have remained Chief Ministers of Jammu and Kashmir.His mother Mollie, a British Christian, and a Nurse by profession, was not in favor of him joining politics. Early on he studied at the Burn Hall School Srinagar. He later studied at the exclusive institution The Lawrence School, Sanawar. He is an alumnus of prestigious Sydenham College, Mumbai.After that he joined University of Strathclyde, Scotland, where he did his B.Com. and MBA.

He married Payal Singh, daughter of an Army officer, Kran Ram Singh from Delhi on September 1, 1994, and the couple had two sons, Zahir and Zamir hence . His sister Sarah Abdullah is married to Rajesh Pilot's son Sachin Pilot.

In 1998, he was elected to 12th Lok Sabha. In 1998-99, he was Member, Committee on Transport and Tourism and Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Tourism. He was the youngest Minister at the age of 29. In 1999, he was re-elected to 13th Lok Sabha (2nd term).[14] On October 13, 1999 he took oath as Union Minister of State, Commerce and Industry. On July 22, 2001, he became the youngest Union Minister, when he was made Union Minister of State for External affairs, a post he resigned from on December 23, 2002, as protest to the 2002 Gujarat violence.

On June 23, 2002, he became the President of National Conference replacing his father Farooq Abdullah.he was re-elected as party's President for a second term in 2006.

In March 2006, much to the disapproval of the centre, Omar Abdullah had a one-on-one meeting with Pakistan President, Pervez Musharaf in Islamabad. This was the first meeting of its kind between a main-stream politician from Jammu & Kashmir and the Pakistani government thereby re-enforcing Omar's growing commitment to the solution of the Jammu & Kashmir cause - no matter what the stakes might be; Omar received a rousing reception by thousands of Kashmiris upon his return from there.

On July 9, 2007, Omar escaped a bid on his life when suspected militants threw two rifle grenades targeted at him. The incident happened when Omar was interacting with party workers at a party leader's house.

On July 22, 2008, Omar gave a passionate speech during the 2008 Lok Sabha vote of confidence , which was praised by almost all quarters, and even won him fans on the net. He was also seen briefly, playing himself in director, Apoorva Lakhia�s film, Mission Istanbul (2008), based on international terrorism.

After the 2008 Kashmir Elections, the National Conference won the maximum number of seats, and formed a coalition government with Congress party, and Omar was sworn in as the 11th Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir on January 5, 2009 at the General Zoravar Singh Stadium in the University of Jammu, Jammu, raising hope amongst the people of Jammu and Kashmir who have been reeling under insurgency and violence since 1989 .As during the Election Campaign ,National Conference has accepted that Kashmir is yet to be resolved and Election is for governance whileas Separatists APHC (All Parties Hurriyat Conference) are for resolution of Kashmir Issue.Omar has promised to facilitate the talks between government of India and Pro-Freedom APHC leaders.

Humpy Koneru

Humpy Koneru (Telugu : కోనేరు హంపీ) (born 31 March 1987 in Gudivada, Andhra Pradesh) is a chess grandmaster from India. Her October 2007 FIDE Elo rating was 2606, placing her at number two in the world for women (behind Judit Polgar), breaking the record of 2577 set by Susan Polgar for the second-highest ranked female player in Chess history and becoming the second female player ever, after Judit Polgar, to cross the 2600 elo mark.[1] [2] Humpy was originally named Hampi (after the ancient city) by her parents but her father later changed it to Humpy, a more Russian-sounding name. She writes her family name (Koneru) before her given name[citation needed], as is the convention with Telugu speaking people. Humpy held the record from 2002 to 2008 for the youngest woman ever to become a grandmaster (not merely a Woman Grandmaster), which she achieved in 15 years, 1 month, 27 days, beating Judit Polgar's previous record by 3 months.[3] However she later lost this record to Hou Yifan. In 2001 she won the World Junior Girls Chess Championship. In 2006 she participated in the Women's World Chess Championship, but was eliminated in the second round.[4] In the Women's World Chess Championship 2008 she made it to the semi-finals, but was beaten by Hou Yifan.

Amrapali Ambegaokar

Amrapali Ambegaokar left her position as Principal Dancer in Cirque Du Soleil in over 730 shows over 2 years so that she could pursue her secret childhood dream of acting with the purpose of expanding her artistic career from the stage to the challenge of Film and TV. With recurring roles on Grey's Anatomy in 18 episodes and Guest starring roles on Heroes and credits on Desperate Housewives, Alias, Boston Legal, ER and films Gone Hollywood, Naach by Ram Gopal Varma, Extra Ordinary Barry and American Blend (as an actor, choreographer, dancer, vocalist), Amrapali has definitely expanded herself as an artist as she continues to achieve her dreams.

Amrapali Ambegaokar is known as a young International Master of Kathak (North Indian Classical) Dance and is "by far one of the best Kathak Dancers around." (Victoria Looseleaf - Los Angeles Times) and "a joyous monument to multiculturalism." (Lewis Segal - Los Angeles Times). "The strongest technical skills and performance personalities ...with the always remarkable Kathak performer, Amrapali Ambegaokar" and "Amrapali's acting is subtle and nuanced"- Los Angeles Times. Amrapali performed as a guest on season 5 of Fox's So You Think You Can Dance and also won the coveted Solo Silver Medal in the International hit show NBC's Superstars of Dance produced by Mastermind Producer and Director Nigel Lithgoe (American Idol, and So You Think You Can Dance) with a solo appearance on NBC's Today Show.

Having won numerous awards and accolades since childhood, Amrapali was famously the Principal Dancer of Cirque Du Soleil's Dralion in over 730 shows in 14 US cities. With performances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and several major television appearances, Amrapali has been the Principal dancer of Anjani Dance Theater with highlights including The Hollywood Bowl, Ravinia Festival Chicago, World Music Institute NY, United Nations D.C., National Geographic Society and hundreds more since age 13 and is the disciple of Master and NEA Lifetime Achievement awardee Anjani Ambegaokar since age 3.

With a BA Honors from UCLA's World Arts and Cultures/Dance department, Amrapali's special honors also include The Music Center SpotlightAward, Celebrity Queen Azalea of the 62nd Azalea Festival as well as the U.S. National judge for Sony TV's Boogie Woogie Dance competition, Celebrity judge for the Miss Asian America Pageant and more. Amrapali is a pageant title holder as Miss Asian America Talent, Miss Asian California, Miss India North America Princess, Miss India North America Talent, and Miss India USA Talent. Since her early teens, Amrapali has graced the covers of The Los Angeles Times, Dance Magazine, Show Magazine, Parade Magazine, 002 Magazine, Celebrity Magazine, India Currents Magazine and so many others.

Amrapali was also invited to perform as a soloist for Dance Moves II held by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (The Emmys) Annual concert celebrating dance and choreography in film and TV. Amrapali also performed as a duet with Grammy award winning composer and Master Trumpeter Mark Isham in a Kathak/Jazz collaborative duet for the Celebrity Centre International's 40th Anniversary Gala ending off in a finale' with Legendaries Chakka Khan, Chick Corea, and Stanley Clarke.

Amrapali's choreography credits include live stage, pageants, film and television, music videos and commercials. Amrapali is recognized for her traditional work as well breaking boundaries by infusing Kathak with Flamenco, Hip Hop, Bollywood, Folk and modern styles. Amrapali feels blessed to be one of the leading artists today of Indo-American heritage flourishing in numerous artistic mediums Internationally and continues to serve as a true torchbearer of the arts.

Anoushka Shankar

Anoushka Shankar is a rising young star of the Indian sitar. She is a student, and daughter of the legendary Ravi Shankar.

She was born in London in 1982, and spent her early years shuttling back and forth between London and New Delhi. She gave her debut performance in New Delhi at the tender age of 13. Later, she moved to Encinitas, CA, where she graduated from High School with honours in 1999.

Although she is still very young, Anouskha has an impressive performing and recording career. She regularly accompanies her father in performances; this she has been doing for quite a few years. In 1998, she released her first solo album, "Anourag". Two years later, she released the Grammy nominated "Live at Carnegie Hall". Her stage career is very extensive, for she has performed in most of the world's major venues.

Anoushka Shankar's career is not limited to music. In 2002 she published a book entitled "Bapi, The Love of My Live"; this is a pictorial biography which pays special tribute to her father, Ravi Shankar. She has also acted in films; in 2003 she acted in the film "Dance Like a Man", where she plays a young Bharat Natyam dancer.

Anoushka Shankar's career continues to unfold, and we can expect to see many things from her in years to come.

Kumar Ram Narain Karthikeyan

Kumar Ram Narain Karthikeyan was born on January 14th, 1977 into an illustrious family renowned as much for its endeavours in education, enterprising businesses and philanthropic passion as it is on the racing circuit. Narain was quick to inherit the racing genes from his father Shri.G.R.Karthikeyan who was a former Indian National rally champion, winning the South India rally seven times.

Recognising his son’s love for the sport, Narain’s father had him enrolled into the prestigious Elf-Winfield School in France to undergo professional training. Since then, there has been no looking back for Narain.

Placing India on the world map of motorsport and called ‘The Fastest Indian in the World’ by Autosport (the world’s premier automotive racing magazine), Narain Karthikeyan continues to bring laurels to the country...

Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has congratulated Narain Karthikeyan for winning the Feature Race in A1GP. Applauding Karthikeyan's victory, Dr. Singh said "He is a true representative of India's young spirit and he has set an example for the entire motorsports fraternity of India to follow."

Chetan Bhagat

Chetan Bhagat is an Indian author who has written Five Point Someone - What not to do at IIT , One Night @ the Call Center, The Three Mistakes of My Life and 2 States - The Story Of My Marriage. He has also written the script of Hello, the Hindi movie based on One Night @ the Call Center.

Chetan Bhagat was born in New Delhi and studied in the Army Public School, Dhaula Kuan, New Delhi. He studied Mechanical Engineering at The Indian Institute Of Technology (IIT) and then studied at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM) where he was named "The Best Outgoing Student". He worked as an Investment Banker with Deutsche bank for eleven years in Hong Kong and moved to Mumbai with his wife Anusha in 2008. Later he gave up his job to devote his entire time to his writings. He is married to Anusha, who was his classmate in IIM.

Bhagat's writing style tends to be simple, with linear narratives and vivid storytelling. His protagonists tend to be named after Lord Krishna, like Hari, Shyam, Govind or Krishna.All his books have a number in the title (eg. 'five' in the first, 'one' in the second, 'three' in the third and 'two' in his latest book.) When asked about this Chetan replied 'I'm a banker, I can't get numbers out of my head."

In response to poor reviews from critics, Bhagat described the books as entertainment, rather than attempts at serious literature.

He is a columnist with Dainik Bhaskar & The Times Of India, and writes on political issues. He is an NRI and a citizen of Singapore.

Bhagat has an op-ed column in Dainik Bhaskar, a large Hindi newspaper and another at The Hindustan Times, an English daily.He says "The main purpose of the books and films is to entertain, but the columns allow me to give my views on how the nation should be run."

Some of his columns have been discussed in the Indian Parliament. His articles are written in simple English to achieve mass appeal. He also visits Educational Institutions in India to give motivational talks. His speech 'Spark' in Pune attained widespread fame and was published in many newspapers

Irom Chanu Sharmila

Irom Sharmila Chanu (born March 14, 1972), also known as the "Iron Lady of Manipur" or "Menghaobi" ("the fair one") is a civil rights activist, political activist, and poet from the Indian state of Manipur. Since 2 November 2000, she has been on hunger strike to demand that the Indian government repeal the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 (AFSPA), which she blames for violence in Manipur and other parts of India's northeast. Having refused food and water for more than ten years, she has been called "the world's longest hunger striker"

Novak Djokovic

• Began playing at age four and made his pro debut at 16
• Nicknamed Nole
• Father, Srdjan and mother, Dijana own a pizzeria and pancake restaurant on a mountain in Serbia for last 15 years
• Father, uncle and aunt were all professional skiers and his father was also an excellent soccer player
• His father wanted him to be a soccer player or skier but excelled in tennis at an early age
• Credits his family as inspiration for giving him so much support and says he wouldn’t be able to be where he is without their help
• Younger brothers Marko (born Aug. 20, 1991) and Djordje (born July 17, 1995) are both in school and play tennis
• Idol growing up was Pete Sampras
• At age 12, attended Niki Pilic Academy in Munich and practiced there for almost two years before returning to Belgrade
• Speaks Serbian, Italian, German and English
• Favorite surface is hard courts but considers himself an all around player
• Best shot is backhand down the line
• As a junior, advanced to Australian Open junior singles and doubles SF (w/Jenkins) in 2004
• Has a 12-4 career singles record (2-0 in doubles) in 10 Davis Cup ties since 2004
• His family invited 50 underprivileged Kosovo-Serb children to Belgrade in September 2007 to be courtside for Serbia-Australia Davis Cup World Group tie
• Appeared in September 2007 Vogue Magazine
• Named 2006-07 ATP Most Improved Player of Year
• Elected to two-year term in June 2008 to ATP Player Council
• Works with physiotherapist Milan Amanovic and physical trainer Ronan Bega
• Coached by former ATP pro and Slovak Republic native Marian Vajda (since June 2006).

Naveen Jindal

Naveen Jindal is a dynamic, handsome political leader and businessman. He become Lok Sabha Member second time. He is an industrialist with operations located in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. He also own a private school [NC Jindal Public School] in New Delhi, India located in West Delhi in Punjabi Bagh area.



Date of Birth of Naveen Jindal he was born on March 09, 1970

Birth Place of Naveen Jindal he was born in Hisar (Haryana).

Marital status of Naveen Jindal he got married on 28 May 1994 with
Smt. Shallu Jindal.

Education of Naveen Jindal He has done B.Com. (Hons.)from Hansraj College, University of Delhi and MBA from University of Texas, Dallas, U.S.A.

Family of Naveen Jindal

Naveen Jindal is the son of former Minister of Haryana Late Shri Om Prakash Jindal and mother of Naveen Jindal Smt. Savitri Jindal is the non-executive chairperson of Jindal Steel and Power Limited and JSW Steel, and member of the Haryana Vidhan Sabha, MLA. Wife of Naveen Jindal is Smt. Shallu Jindal and he has two children's.

Political Carrier of Naveen Jindal

Naveen Jindalstarted his carrier in politics by winning the first time Lok Sabha election in 2004. He is completely promoting respectful display of our National Flag which symbolizes National honors and pride and from the day January 26, 2002, private citizens were allowed to fly India's flag inside and a top their buildings and institutions. Now is the member of 15th Lok Sabha of India and he is trying all-round development of Kurukshetra Parliamentary Constituency. 

Youth against corruption

Youth are the future of any nation. The concern with youth points to the future of society and to the field of possibilities for its development. Youth shall be responsible for defining the continuity or changes to the society and its institutions. In our daily lives if we put light we will see the youth is not interested in politics all because they have lost faith in the working of the entire system. The change is not required in one department or in one state it required as a whole. Each and every one is aware of this present scenario through newspapers, journalism, and various sources but they lack an initiator. Once they get an initiator they are always ready to support and raise their voice against corruption.

“Vow to be valiant;

Resolve to be radiant;

Determine to be dynamic;

Strive to be sincere;

Aspire to be attuned.”