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18 unusual facts about Indian people


Abe Cherian

Abe Cherian (born Abraham Cherian on 8 November 1968) is an Indian businessman and the CEO of Multiple Stream Media.

Aga Khan Palace

In 1969, Aga Khan Palace was donated to the Indian people by Aga Khan IV as a mark of respect to Gandhi and his philosophy.

B. Unnikrishnan

B Unnikrishnan (born August 14, 1970) is an Indian film director and screenwriter who works in Malayalam cinema.

Bachendri Pal

Bachendri Pal (Hindi: बचेंद्री पाल; born 24 May 1954) is an Indian mountaineer, who in 1984 became the first Indian woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

Bauddhayan Mukherji

Bauddhayan Mukherji aka 'Buddy' (born 1 June 1973, Kolkata, India) is an Indian advertisement film director based in Mumbai, best known for the campaign against domestic violence called 'Bell Bajao', which was directed by him.

Dakshayani Velayudhan

Dakshayani Velayudhan (4 May 1912 - 20 July 1978) was an Indian parliamentarian and leader of the Depressed Classes.

Darius D'Souza

Darius D'Souza (born 11 October 1989) is an Indian born Canadian cricketer.

Dinesh Agrahari Deewana

Dinesh Agrahari Deewana (also spelled as Diwana) is an Indian singer from Mumbai, India who predominately gives his voice for Hindi and Bhojpuri films and albums.

Henry Sidambarom

Henry Sidambarom (5 July 1863 – 15 September 1952) was a Justice of the Peace and defender of the cause of Indian workers in Guadaloupe.

Kay V

Kay V (born Kushaal Virdi on December 24, 1988) is an underground Indian music producer & rapper.

Manny Elias

Manny Elias (born in 1953) is an Indian-born English drummer, notable for being the original drummer with Tears for Fears during the 1980s.

Melville de Mellow

Melville de Mellow (also de Mello) (1913 - 1989) was an Indian radio broadcaster with the All India Radio.

Pharao

The band was fronted by Egyptian-Indian singer Kyra Pharao (Claudia Banerjee) (born 17 January 1971) and the American rapper Deon Blue (born 20 January 1970).

Sandeep Pampally

Sandeep Pampally, usually credited as Pampally, is an Indian film director and screenwriter from Kerala.

Shefali Alvares

Shefali Alvares (born 17 December 1983) is an Indian playback singer.

Shiba Maggon

Shiba Maggon (Hindi:'शीबा मग्गोन') (born 16 March 1976 ) is an Indian basketball player who played for the India national team.

Syamadas Mukhopadhyaya

Syamadas Mukhopadhyaya (June 22, 1866 – May 8, 1937) was an Indian mathematician who introduced the four-vertex theorem and Mukhopadhyaya's theorem in plane geometry.

Vasant Dhoble

Vasant Dhoble is an Indian police officer, currently serving as Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) in Mumbai.


Ali Sardar Jafri

He also wrote two plays for the Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA), produced a documentary film Kabir, Iqbal and Freedom and two television serials: the runaway success, the 18-part Kahkashan, based on the lives and works of seven noted and highly popular Urdu poets of the 20th century he had known personally viz.

Angana P. Chatterji

In this, Chatterji worked with Indian People's Tribunal on Environment and Human Rights, with Mihir Desai, Retired Chief Justice K.K. Usha of Kerala, Sudhir Pattnaik, Ram Puniyani, Colin Gonsalves and others.

Balagangadharanatha Swamiji

Sri Balagangadharanatha Swamiji (18 January 1945 - 13 January 2013) was an Indian religious leader who was the seer of Adichunchanagiri, Nagamangala Taluk, Mandya district.

Bharat Gupt

Bharat Gupt, A retired Associate Professor in English, who taught at the College of Vocational Studies of the University of Delhi, is an Indian classicist, theatre theorist, sitar and surbahar player, musicologist, cultural analyst, and newspaper columnist.

Borlaug Award

The Borlaug Award is an award recognition conferred by a fertilizer company, Coromandel International, for outstanding Indian scientists for their research and contributions in the field of agriculture and environment.

Cantonese slang

In Hong Kong slang terms for members of minority groups include "gweilo," (ghost man) meaning White people, "ga tau" and "lo baat tau" (carrot head) meaning Japanese people, "bak gwei" (white devil) meaning Caucasians, "hak gwei" (black devil) meaning Black people, "bun mui" meaning Filipina domestic employees, and "ah cha" meaning Indian people and Pakistani people.

G.D. Birla Award for Scientific Research

G.D. Birla Award for Scientific Research is an award instituted in 1991 by the K. K. Birla Foundation in honour of the Indian philanthropist Ghanshyam Das Birla.

Ghanaian Indian

The Indo-Aryan peoples and Sindhi, who were the first Indians to arrive in Ghana, initially came as merchants and shopkeepers, and gradually, in the 1950s and 1960s, a few ventures out in the manufacturing industries such as garments, plastics, textiles, insecticides, electronics, pharmaceutical industry, optical goods etc.

Gurwinder Singh Chandi

Gurwinder Singh Chandi (born 20 October 1989 in Jalandhar, India) in an Indian professional field hockey player.

H. K. Patil

Hanumanthagowda Krishnegowda Patil (Kannada:ಹನುಮಂತಗೌಡ ಕೃ‌ಷ್ಣೇಗೌಡ ಪಾಟೀಲ್) (born: 15 August 1953, Hulkoti, Gadag) is an Indian politician from Gadag in Karnataka.

Jalaluddin Mirza

Sahibzada Mīrzā Mu'hammad Jalāl ud-Dīn Mridha Sahib (Arabic, Urdu- جلال الدینہ محمد میرزا), better known as Jalaluddin Mirza (1898-1975), was a Bengali Indian aristocrat in the erstwhile British Empire who served as the fifth and last hereditary Zamindar of Natore from the House of Singra and Natore before it was abolished in 1951.

Manilal C. Parekh

Manilal Chhotalal Parekh (1885-1967), a Gujurati convert to Anglican church, was an Indian Christian theologian, and the founder of Hindu Church of Christ—free from Western influence - opposing Western and institutional nature of Christianity in India.

Paras Arora

Paras Arora (Hindi: पारस अरोड़ा) (born 10 January 1994) is an Indian television actor who is best known for his critically acclaimed portrayal of the great Maratha Warrior, Chhatrapati Shivaji Bhosale, in the award winning historical series Veer Shivaji.

Rajinder Sachar

Rajindra Sachar participated with retired justices Hosbet Suresh and Siraj Mehfuz Daud in an investigation by the Indian People's Human Rights Tribunal into a massive slum clearance drive in Mumbai, which had the ostensible purpose of preserving the Sanjay Gandhi National Park.

Sharanya Haridas

Sharanya Haridas (Born 2 November 1990) is an Indian poet and entrepreneur, best known as the Founder, C.E.O. and Editor-in-Chief of That's So Gloss, India’s first web magazine and online community exclusively for teenage girls and young women.

Sir Walter Roper Lawrence

Over the course of his wanderings, he developed a close affinity with the Indian and Kashmiri people, who figure prominently in his work.