Sudha Chandran

Sudha Chandran

Sudha Chandran at Colors annual bash in 2016

Born Sudha Chandran

27 September 1965 (age 51)[1][2]

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Spouse(s) Ravi Dang (m. 1994)[3]

Sudha Chandran (born 27 September 1965) is an Indian film and television actress and an
accomplished Bharatanatyamdancer. In June 1981, she lost a leg due to gangrene following a road
accident near Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu while coming back from Madras with her parents.[4] She,
however, continued dancing, and subsequently went on to become an established Bharatnatyam
dancer. Chandran is known for her roles of Ramola Sikand in Kaahin Kissii Roz, Anky ka Dada
/Yamini in Naagin, Chitradevi in Deivam Thandha Veedu, the Tamil remake of Saath Nibhana
Saathiya and Anand's first wife in Hum Paanch (Season two).

Early and personal life[edit]

Chandran was born in Mumbai to a Tamil family.[5] She had stated in an interview of Nettv4u, that
she was born and raised in Mumbai, but her family originates from Vayaloor, Tiruchirapally, Tamil
Nadu.[6] Her grand parents who were the fourth generation had migrated to Palakkad, Kerala. Her
father worked at USIS and is a former actor. Chandran earned her B.A. from Mithibai
College, Mumbai and subsequently an M.A. in Economics.[7]
In May 1981, while travelling in Tamil Nadu, Chandran met with an accident in which her legs were
wounded. She received initial medical treatment of her injuries at a local hospital and was later
admitted to Vijaya Hospital at Madras. After doctors discovered that gangrene had formed on her
right leg, amputation was required.[8] Chandran says that this period was the toughest time of her life.
She subsequently overcame her disability with the help of a prosthetic Jaipur foot.[9] She returned to
dancing after a gap of two years and performed in Europe, Canada and the Middle East. Her
biography is part of curriculum for school children in the age group of 8-11.[10]
Chandran married assistant director Ravi Dang in 1994.[3] She was given an honorary doctorate by
Invertis University, Bareily.
Stephen Hawking Biography.com
January 8, 1942 (age 75)

EDUCATION
California Institute of Technology, University of Cambridge, Gonville & Caius
College, Oxford University

PLACE OF BIRTH
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Stephen Hawking

FULL NAME
Stephen William Hawking
Scientist Stephen Hawking is known for his groundbreaking work with black
holes and relativity, and is the author of several popular science books
including 'A Brief History of Time.'
QUOTES

“My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and

why it exists at all.”
—Stephen Hawking

Synopsis

Stephen Hawking was born on January 8, 1942, in Oxford, England. At an early age, Hawking
showed a passion for science and the sky. At age 21, while studying cosmology at the University
of Cambridge, he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Despite his debilitating
illness, he has done groundbreaking work in physics and cosmology, and his several books have
helped to make science accessible to everyone. Part of his life story was depicted in the 2014
film The Theory of Everything.
Early Life and Background

The eldest of Frank and Isobel Hawking's four children, Stephen William Hawking was born on
the 300th anniversary of the death of Galileo—long a source of pride for the noted physicist—on
January 8, 1942. He was born in Oxford, England, into a family of thinkers. His Scottish mother
had earned her way into Oxford University in the 1930s—a time when few women were able to
go to college. His father, another Oxford graduate, was a respected medical researcher with a
specialty in tropical diseases.

Stephen Hawking's birth came at an inopportune time for his parents, who didn't have much
money. The political climate was also tense, as England was dealing with World War II and the
onslaught of German bombs. In an effort to seek a safer place, Isobel returned to Oxford to have
the couple's first child. The Hawkings would go on to have two other children, Mary (1943) and
Philippa (1947). And their second son, Edward, was adopted in 1956.

The Hawkings, as one close family friend described them, were an "eccentric" bunch. Dinner
was often eaten in silence, each of the Hawkings intently reading a book. The family car was an
old London taxi, and their home in St. Albans was a three-story fixer-upper that never quite got
fixed. The Hawkings also housed bees in the basement and produced fireworks in the
greenhouse.

Sudha Murthy
 Sudha Murthy

Born Sudha Kulkarni

19 August 1950 (age 66)

Shiggaon, Karnataka, India

Residence Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Citizenship Indian

Alma mater BVB College of Engineering

Indian Institute of Science

Occupation Chairperson, Infosys Foundation, Writer

(Kannada/English)

Spouse(s) N.R. Narayana Murthy

Sudha Murthy (also spelled Murty; née Kulkarni on 19 August 1950) is an Indian philanthropist and writer
in Kannada and English.
Murthy began her professional career as a computer scientist and engineer. She is the chairperson of
the Infosys Foundation and a member of public health care initiatives of the Gates Foundation.[1][2] She has
founded several orphanages, participated in rural development efforts, supported the movement to provide
all Karnataka government schools with computer and library facilities, and established 'The Murthy Classical
Library of India' at Harvard University.[3][4][5] Murthy initiated a bold move to introduce computer and library
facilities in all schools in Karnataka & taught computer science. She got "Best Teacher Award" in 1995 from
Rotary Club at Bangalore. Murthy is best known for her social work and her contribution to literature in
Kannada and English. Dollar Bahu (English: Dollar Daughter-in-Law), a novel originally authored by her
in Kannada and later translated into English as Dollar Bahu, was adapted as a televised dramatic series by Zee
TV in 2001.[6] Murthy has also acted in Marathi film Pitruroon and Kannada film Prarthana.

Early life & education

Sudha Murthy was born on 19 August 1950 in Shiggaon in Karnataka, India, the daughter of surgeon Dr. R. H.
Kulkarni and his wife Vimala Kulkarni. She and her siblings were raised by her parents and maternal
grandparents. These childhood experiences form the historical basis for her first notable work entitled How I
Taught my Grandmother to Read & Other Stories.[7] Murthy completed a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from
the B.V.B. College of Engineering & Technology, standing first in her class and receiving a gold medal from
the Chief Minister of Karnataka. Murthy completed M.E. in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of
Science, standing first in her class and receiving a gold medal from the Indian Institute of Engineers.[8]

Career
Murthy became the first female engineer hired at India's largest auto manufacturer TATA Engineering and
Locomotive Company (TELCO). Murthy joined the company as a Development Engineer in Pune and then
worked in Mumbai & Jamshedpur as well. Murthy had written a postcard to the company's Chairman
complaining of the "men only" gender bias at TELCO. As a result, she was granted a special interview and
hired immediately. She later joined Walchand Group of Industries at Pune as Senior Systems Analyst.
In 1996, she started Infosys Foundation & till date has been the Trustee of Infosys Foundation and a Visiting
Professor at the PG Center of Bangalore University. She also taught at Christ College.[9] She has written and
published many books, of which two are travelogues, two technical books, six novels and three educative
books.
Two institutions of higher learning, the H.R. Kadim Diwan Building housing the Computer Science &
Engineering (CSE) department at IIT Kanpur[10][11] and the Narayan Rao Melgiri Memorial National Law Library
at NLSIU,[12] were both endowed and inaugurated by the Infosys Foundation.

Awards
The following is an incomplete list of awards for Sudha Murthy:

 Gold Medal from the Indian Institute of Engineers, India for having secured the I Rank in M.Tech. of all the
branches of Engineering
 Silver Medal from the Chief Minister of Karnataka Sri Devaraj Urs, for securing the highest marks in B.E. of
all the Universities of Engineering in Karnataka
 Cash award for having secured the highest marks in SSLC
 C S Desai Prize for standing first in the University Exams of Karnataka
 Youth Service Department Prize from Government of Karnataka, for having been the outstanding
engineering student of Karnataka
 1995: Best Teacher Award in 1995 from the Rotary Club of Bangalore
 National Award from Public Relation Society of India for outstanding Social Service to the Society
 ‘Attimabbe’ award for her technical book in Kannada (Shaale Makkaligagi Computer – meaning computers
for school children)
 Award for Excellent Social Service by Rotary South – Hubli
 2000: ‘Karnataka Rajyotsava’ State Award for the year 2000, for achievement in the field of literature and
social work
 2000: ‘Ojaswini’ award for excellent social work for the year 2000
 ‘Millenium Mahila Shiromani’ award
 2002: Voted as Woman of the Year by RadioCity [Bangalore FM station] on International Women’s Day
 2004: Murthy was presented with the Raja-Lakshmi Award "in recognition of her outstanding contribution
to social work" by the Sri Raja-Lakshmi Foundation in Chennai.[13]
 2006: Murthy was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest-ranking civilian award from the Government
of India, and received an honorary doctorate for her contributions in the spheres of social work,
philanthropy and education.[14] \
 2006: She also received the R.K. Narayana's Award for Literature.
 2011: Murthy was conferred honorary LL.D (Doctor of Laws) degrees for their contributions to promote
formal legal education and scholarship in India.[15]
 2013: Basava Shree-2013 Award was presented to Narayan Murthy & Sudha Murthy for their contributions
to society at Basaveshwara Medical College auditorium. Basava Shree award comprises a plaque and a
cheque of `5 lakh, Sudha Murthy handed over award money to an orphanage run by the mutt.[16]

Personal life
Sudha Murthy married N.R. Narayana Murthy while employed as an engineer at TELCO in Pune.[17] The couple
have two children Akshata and Rohan. Her daughter Akshata married Rishi Sunak, her classmate from
Stanford, a British Indian. He is a partner at a hedge-fund involved in charity in the UK.[18]
In an interview with the Filmfare magazine, Mrs. Murthy said “I have 500 DVDs that I watch in my home
theatre. I see a film in totality – its direction, editing… all aspects. People know me as a social worker, as an
author… but no one knows me as a movie buff. That’s why I am glad to do this interview with Filmfare”. The
cineaste, who even went to the extent of watching 365 films in 365 days confides, “I could have actually
become a film journalist. I never get bored of movies!”[19] In an installation ceremony of chairpersons of Ficci
Ladies Organisation (FLO), Murthy said the advice she got from J.R.D.Tata when she left her job to assist her
husband Narayana Murthy to startup company Infosys which changed her life. He told her to remember that no
one was owner of money. “You are only trustee of money and it always changes hands. When you are
successful, give it back to society that gave you so much goodwill”.[20]

Social activity
Murthy’s social work covers the healthcare, education, empowerment of women, public hygiene, art and
culture, and poverty alleviation at the grassroots level. Her vision of a library for each school has resulted in the
setting up of 50,000 libraries so far. She is helping out rural areas by building 10,000 public toilets and several
hundred toilets in the city of Bangalore. Infosys Foundation is a public charitable trust founded in 1996 and
Murthy is one of the trustees. Through Foundation she has built 2,300 houses in the flood affected areas. She
has handled national natural disasters like tsunami in Tamil Nadu and Andaman, earthquake in Kutch –
Gujarat, hurricane and floods in Orissa, Andhra Pradesh and drought in Karnataka and Maharashtra. The
Government of Karnataka awarded her the prestigious literary award, the ‘Attimabbe Award’ –for her literary
work for the year 2011–12.[21]

Bibliography
Murthy is a prolific fiction author in Kannada and English. She has published several books, mainly
through Penguin, that espouse her philosophical views on charity, hospitality and self-realization through
fictional narratives. Some of her notable books in Kannada are Dollar Sose, Runa, Kaveri inda
Mekaangige, Hakkiya Teradalli, Athirikthe, Guttondu Heluve. The book How I Taught My Grandmother to Read
& Other Stories has been translated into 15 languages including Hindi, Marathi and Assamese. Her latest book
is The Day I Stopped Drinking Milk. Other notable books by her are Wise and Otherwise, Old Man and his
God,The Magic Drum And Other Favourite Stories[22] and Gently Falls the Bakula.[18] Marathi movie 'Pitruroon' is
based on a story by Sudha Murthy.
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.”
—Helen Keller

Helen Keller Biography.com

American educator Helen Keller overcame the adversity of being blind and deaf to become one
of the 20th century's leading humanitarians, as well as co-founder of the ACLU.
Synopsis

Helen Adams Keller was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. In 1882, she was
stricken by an illness that left her blind and deaf. Beginning in 1887, Keller's teacher, Anne
Sullivan, helped her make tremendous progress with her ability to communicate, and Keller went
on to college, graduating in 1904. In 1920, Keller helped found the ACLU. During her lifetime,
she received many honors in recognition of her accomplishments.

Early Life

Helen Keller was the first of two daughters born to Arthur H. Keller and Katherine Adams
Keller. She also had two older stepbrothers. Keller's father had proudly served as an officer in
the Confederate Army during the Civil War. The family was not particularly wealthy and earned
income from their cotton plantation. Later, Arthur became the editor of a weekly local
newspaper, the North Alabamian.Keller was born with her senses of sight and hearing, and
started speaking when she was just 6 months old. She started walking at the age of 1.

Loss of Sight and Hearing

In 1882, however, Keller contracted an illness—called "brain fever" by the family doctor—that
produced a high body temperature. The true nature of the illness remains a mystery today,
though some experts believe it might have been scarlet fever or meningitis. Within a few days
after the fever broke, Keller's mother noticed that her daughter didn't show any reaction when the
dinner bell was rung, or when a hand was waved in front of her face. Keller had lost both her
sight and hearing. She was just 19 months old.
Saina Nehwal is a badminton player from India who is among the world’s top players in women’s badminton
and she has won a number of championships. Nehwal lived in Hisar town of Haryana state in India for a few
years early in her life but the family relocated to Hyderabad when she was still only a child and it was in the
new city that she learned the tricks of the game form some of the best known coaches in the game. Nehwal
was a teenage sensation when she won the Under-19 national championships and from then on she went from
strength to strength as she developed her game quickly and started winning major trophies in the professional
circuit. She became the first Indian badminton player to win a BWF Series event and continued to impress on
her way to winning the gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in 2010. However, the most important win of
her career was without doubt her bronze medal winning performance at the London Olympics in 2012. She has
won a number of awards from the Government of India for her contributions and is without doubt one of India’s
leading sportspersons.

Childhood & Early Life

 Saina Nehwal was born to Harvir Singh and his wife Usha Rani in Hisar town of Haryana state in
India on 17th March 1990. Her father worked in Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural
University in Hisar. She has a younger sister.
 Nehwal studied at the Campus School located inside the Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana
Agricultural University campus initially but the family moved to Hyderabad after a few years. She
passed her high school form St. Anne’s College Mehdipatnam, Hyderabad.
 Nehwal was interested in badminton from an early age and was coached by Nani Prasad when
she was a child. Subsequently, she was coached by S. M. Arif, an award winning badminton
coach. In 2006, Nehwal burst into the limelight as a teenager when she won the Under-19
national championships. She also won the Asian Satellite Badminton tournament two times.

Career
 In 2006, Nehwal won the Philippines Open tournament and also performed well at several junior
tournaments. She was the runner up at the BWF World Junior Championship held in 2006. Two
years later she won the World Junior Badminton Championships and at Beijing Olympics held in
the same year she reached the quarter finals. Following the Olympics, she won the Chinese
Taipei Open.

 Nehwal won the Indonesia Open in 2009, a BWF Super Series event and in the process became
the first Indian badminton player to do so. The following year she played in the semi finals of the
All England Super Series and the same year she won the Singapore Open Super Series and the
Indonesian Open. At the Commonwealth Games held in New Delhi, India Nehwal won the gold
medal in the women’s singles category and rounded off the year with the 2010 Indonesian Super
Series title.
 In 2011, Nehwal reached the final stages of several tournaments but could not win any titles but
won the Swiss Open, Thailand Open Grand Prix, Indonesia Open Super Series and the
Denmark Open Super Series in 2012. At the London Olympics 2012, Nehwal won the bronze
medal in the women’s singles category.
Awards & Achievements
 Nehwal was awarded the Arjuna Award in 2009 and a year later, the Government of India
honoured her with the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian honour in India.
 In 2009, Nehwal was honoured with India’s highest award for sporting excellence - the Rajiv
Gandhi Khel Ratna Award.
 In 2016, the Government of India awarded Saina Nehwal the Padma Bhushan. It is the 3rd
highest civilian honour in the country.

 saina Nehwal won the singles title at the India Open Grand Prix on 26 January 2014 and reached
the quarter finals of the All England Super Series Premier. The same year, she emerged as the
winner of the women’s singles tournament at the Australian Super Series and also became the
world’s 7th ranked player after winning that tournament. Nehwal also won the China Open Super
Series that year.

 In 2015, Saina Nehwal won the women’s singles event at the Indian Open Grand Prix Gold and in
the final; she beat Spanish player Carolina Marina. At the All England Badminton Open
Championships the same year, Marina beat Nehwal in the final. The same year, Nehwal won the
singles event at the India Open BWF Super Series and became the number 1 women’s player in
the Badminton World Federation rankings.