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Amrita Pritam
Amrita Pritam was born in 1919 in Gujranwala in a part of India which later
became Pakistan. She began to write at an early age, and her first collection was
published when she was only sixteen years old. A number of her works have been translated
into English, including her autobiographical works Black Rose and Revenue Stamp |
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Kiran
Bedi
Kiran Bedi is an Indian police officer and is the first woman to join
the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1972. She was born on 9th June 1949 in
Amritsar , Punjab. She is a police advisor in the United Nations peacekeeping department.
Kiran Bedi has received a number of Awards. |
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P T
USHA
P T USHA ATHLETE Pilavullakandi Thekeparambil Usha is a woman of
unstoppable determination. Experts comments that if she had tilted her body a little
forward when she neared the finishing line at the '84 Olympics in Los Angeles she would
have bagged the bronze medal.Her highest haul was at the 8th Asian Games in Seoul where
she bagged the gold medal.Her only drawback was her comeback at a the age of 34 but
shesays,she is no quitter. |
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Usha Uthup
Usha Uthup or Didi as she is fondly referred to, was
born in independent India of parents who came from the traditionally rich states of Madras
and Kerala and was raised in the bustling metropolis of Mumbai. Usha Uthup is famous
pop queen. She was well known for popular hits. Usha Uthup is from Calcutta. She sang
songs like Shaan se. She is supposedly the first person to have brought pop music to
India. She can sing in many languages, including but not limited to English, hindi,
Bengali, and many south Indian languages. |
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Medha Patkar
Medha Patkar was born on December 1, 1954. Prior to
being a social activist, She left her position on the faculty of TISS as well as her
unfinished Ph.D. when she became invloved in the tribal and peasant agitations in
Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, which eventually led to the organization of the
Narmada Bachao Andolan. Medha Patkar is one of the recipients of Right Livelihood Award,
Mahatma Phule Award, Goldman Environment Prize, and Human Rights Defender's Award. She was
also a Commissioner to the World Commission on Dams. |
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Asha Bhosle
Asha Bhosle born on September 8, 1933.She is an Indian singer.
She is best known as a Bollywood playback singer, although she has a much wider
repertoire. Her career started in 1943 and has spanned over six decades. She has done
playback singing for over 925 Bollywood movies and sold many records. She is the sister of
the equally popular Lata Mangeshkar. |
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Jaya Bachchan
Jaya Bachchan (Bhaduri) Born on April 9, 1948 in Kolkata, is a actress. Jaya is
married Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan. She started her career with a small role in
Satyajit Ray's film,Mahanagar at the age of 15. She gave many Hindi hit films, such as
Guddi,Anamika, Kora Kagaz, Zanjeer, Abhimaan and Sholay. She has two children with him:
Shweta Bachchan-Nanda and Abhishek Bachchan |
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Maneka Gandhi
Minister of Social Justice and
Empowerment (as of January 2001), Maneka Gandhi is the daughter-in-law of Indira
Gandhi. She was elected into the Lok Sabha in 1998. A dedicated animal rights activist and
environmentalist, she is a founder member of People for Animals and chairperson of the
Delhi Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. |
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Tarla Dalal
Ms. Tarla
Dalal is India’s best - selling cookery author. She has written a total of 30 titles,
several of which have been translated in various languages like Hindi, Gujrati, Marathi,
Bengali and even Dutch and Russian! The total sales of her cookbooks exceed 1 million
copies. Her first book ‘The Pleasures of Vegetarian cooking’, which was
published in 1974, was an instant success with Indian housewives. The book, which is
considered a classic in cookery books, has sold a record 125,000 copies. |
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Shabana Azmi
Shabana born on 18 September 1950 at New Delhi, is one of the leading
actresses of parallel cinema. She was married Javed Akhtar, a famed lyricist, poet and
scriptwriter of Bollywood. She is a film actress as well as a social activist, and while
her performances in films of a variety of genre have generally earned her praises and
awards. |
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