India

Female Indian Freedom Fighters
Sarala Devi Chaudhurani , Ramabai Ranade, Shoilabala Das , Dr. Welthy H. Fisher, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit , Jethinben Tulsidas Siphilmalani . Prabhawati Devi , Basanti Devi , Maniben Patel, Khurshidben Naoraji, Muthulakshmi Reddy, Hansa Mehta, Madam [...]

Sania Mirza
Lawn Tennis Player

The young Indian women tennis sensation Sania Mirza, was born in Mumbai on November 15, 1986. Presently the highest ranked Indian, Sania started playing Tennis at the tender age of six at the Nizam club in Hyderabad
Born to parents, father Imran Mirza a sports journalist and mother Nasima, it was [...]

P. T. USHA
Athlete

The first Indian woman (and the fifth Indian) to reach the final of an Olympic event by winning her 400 m hurdles Semi-final. She was born in Kerala in 1964. When she was just 12, she joined a Sports school at Cannanore where she received guidance and training from O.P. Nambiar, the noted [...]

NARAIN KARTHIKEYAN
Formula One Driver

Hailed as the fastest Indian in the world by the British Motoring Press, Kumar Ram Narain Karthikeyan is the Ist Formula One driver from India.
Interview with Narain Karthikeyan
Born on January 14th 1977 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, as the son of G. R. Karthikeyan, a former Indian National Rally Champion, Narain got [...]

MILKHA SINGH
Athlete

Milkha Singh is one of the most outstanding athletes of India. He has earned the nickname ‘Flying Sikh’ because of his marvelous running speed on the tracks. He was born in 1935 in the Western Punjab of undivided India.

Sport – Olympic Games

Major Rathore does India proud
By Kamesh Srinivasan
ATHENS, AUG. 17. He looked good for the gold, but the wind took it away. Major Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore won the silver for India in the Olympic games after a below par performance in the preliminary phase to assert his undisputed class as [...]