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13. Kuzhoor Narayana Marar

Maestros of Panchavadyam

A major role in popularising the percussion ensemble art form.

An exponent of percussion instrument Thimila.

Panchavadyam: An orchestra of five instruments is basically a temple art form hasevolved in Kerala. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panchavadyam)

Four - timila, maddalam, ilathalam and idakka -- belong to the percussioncategory, while the fifth one, kombu, is a wind instrument.

Timila: Timila is an hour-glass drum from Kerala. It is made of polishedjackwood, and the drumheads made ofcalfskin are held together by leather

braces which are also twined round the waist of the drum.(http://keralavadyakala.com/uploads/pics/Thimila-percussion.gif)

Maddalam: Madhalam is a drum made out of the wood of the jackfruit tree

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maddalam)

Ilathalam: Elathalam, or Ilathalam, is a metallic musical instrument which

resembles a miniature pair ofcymbals. Completely made out of bronze and hastwo pieces in it. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymbal)

Idakka: hourglass-shaped drum (Damaru)

kombu : Kind of trumpet

14. Madhusudan Amilal Dhaky

Eminent writer and historian of rich Indian architecture.

His books on Jain and Hindu mandirs are well-known among international scholars.

15. Mallika Sarabhai

A well-known activist and performer from Gujarat in India. The daughter of classical danseuse Mrinalini Sarabhai and renowned space scientist

Vikram Sarabhai.

Mallika is an accomplished Kuchipudi and Bharatanatyam dancer.

Mallika Sarabhai announced her candidature against L K Advani for the GandhinagarLok Sabha seat, as an independent candidate

16. Dr. Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana

He (4 August 1923) is a Carnatic musician, a classical vocalist, musicologist, author and

teacher, a great administrator and motivator.

Born in Anakapalli, Andhra Pradesh, India

17. Puttaraj Gavai

Karnataka

Puttaraj Kavi Gavaiji is a born-blind, poet and MUSICIAN UBHAYA GANA

VISHARAD (a famous vocalist both in Hindustani and Karnataka Music).

18. Ram Kumar

Ram Kumar, born 1924, in Shimla.

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Artist who has been described as one of India's foremost abstract painters.

Educated as an economist with an M.A. from St. Stephen's College, Delhi

19. Shrinivas Vinayak Khale

A veteran marathi music composer

20. Ustad Sultan Khan

An Indian sarangi player and singer, who plays Hindustani classical music

One of the members ofthe Indian fusion group Tabla Beat Science, with ZakirHussain and Bill Laswell.

21. B.K. Chaturvedi

PM personally interviewing many of secretaries, he picked up a 1966 batch UP cadre

IAS, BK Chaturvedi as the top bureaucrat of the country.

In June, 2007, he was made a Member, Planning Commission and was subsequentlygiven additional charge as Member, Thirteenth Finance Commission (November, 2007).

Chaturvedi Panel to understand financial position of oil firms and give recommendationsfor sharp increase in petrol, and diesel products.

22. Moosa Raza

In his Chennai home, Moosa Raza, a 1960 batch Gujarat cadre IAS

He became the principal secretary to the chief minister of Gujarat, and later got shifted toJammu and Kashmir and served as the chief secretary of that state.

Moosa Raza was handpicked by the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) to lead

a goodwill mission to Kashmir to facilitate the return of Kashmiri Pandits to their hearthsand homes in the Valley.

He has been director general of India Islamic Cultural Centre in New Delhi

23. P.R. Dubhashi (An administrator-turned author and trainer)

PR Dubhashi, 1953 batch Karnataka cadre IAS, appointed as a secretary in Prime

Ministers Office (PMO) later became an authority on public administration

Penned a number of books on various facets of Indian civil service.

His books included, Administrative Reforms (1986) and Policy and Performance:

Agricultural and Rural Development In Post-independence India.

24. Fareed Zakaria:

Fareed Rafiq Zakaria (born January 20, 1964) is an Indian-American journalist and

author Writes a regular column forNewsweek, which also appears in Newsweek International

and fortnightly in the Washington Post. Hosts an international affairs program, Fareed

Zakaria GPS, airs Sundays worldwide on CNN.

Books, including The Future of Freedom, The Post American World

His father, Rafiq Zakaria, was a politician associated with the Indian National Congress

B.A. degree from Yale University later earned a Ph.D. degree in Political Science fromHarvard University in 1993

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25. Anil Bordia

Mr. Anil Bordia was born in Indore in India in 1934 and was educated at Udaipur inRajasthan and the University of Delhi. In 1957 he entered the IAS

Joined Indias federal Ministry of Education as Joint Secretary in 1974 and in 1977 was

appointed to the position of Director-General of Indias National Adult Education

Programme. Mr. Bordia taught at the UNESCO International Institute for Education Planning (IIEP)

Paris between 1980 and 1982.

Anil Bordia was Indian Education Secretary between 1987 and 1992 and had theopportunity to implement the new education policy

The Rajasthan project is called Lok Jumbish, which means Peoples Movement for

Education. This project, recognized as an exceptionally innovative and successfulproject was started by Mr. Bordia.

In 2001 he started another innovative project called Doosra Dashak(literally, the second

decade) which is for education and development of persons in the 11-20 age group.

26. Prof. Bipan Chandra Born 1928, an Indian historian, specialising in economic and political history of modern

India.

Chandra was born in Kangra Valley, Himachal Pradesh.

He set up the journal Enquiry

Presently, he is the Chairman of the National Book Trust, New Delhi

National Book Trust: National Book Trust, (NBT) is an Indian publishing house,

founded in 1957 as an autonomous body under the Ministry of Education within theGovernment of India.