Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai (12 August 1919 – 30 December 1971) is remembered as the father of the Indian space programme, and his life is a study in how scientific ambition, industrial wealth, and natio…
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (25 December 1924 – 16 August 2018) was a poet, journalist, parliamentarian, and three-time Prime Minister of India - the first non-Congress leader to complete a full five-year t…
Early LifeBorn on 31 October 1909 in Bombay, now Mumbai. Son of a distinguished civil engineer, Poorav Bhabha, and his mother, Meher. Grew up in a cultured, educated household that valued learning. E…
Early Life and Origins Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam was born on 15 October 1931 in Rameswaram, a small pilgrimage town on Pamban Island in the Madras Presidency (now Tamil Nadu). He was born i…
