Ancient Saints & Sages

Sant Ravidas lived in Varanasi (Benares) and is generally thought to have been a younger contemporary ...
RAMDAS(1608-1681 A.D.)Gangadharpant did not see his brother Narayan at the evening meal. His inquiries of his ...
SANT EKNATH(1533-1599 A.D.)A young boy of 12, had such yearning for God, he prayed fervently in ...
NAMDEO (1270-1350) - Namdev, also transliterated as Nam Dayv, Namdeo, Namadeva, was an Indian poet and ...
Sant GNYANESHWAR, (1275-1297A.D.) Some 20 Kilometres from Pune is a quaint little village of Alandi where ...
Valmiki (Sanskrit: वाल्मीकि) is celebrated as the harbinger-poet in Sanskrit literature. The epic Ramayana, dated variously ...
Saptarishi are the seven greatest sages of the Vedic realm. They have attained a semi-immortal status, ...
Markandeya (Sanskrit: मार्कण्‍डेय) ( IAST: Mārkaṇḍeya) is an ancient rishi (sage) born in the clan of ...

Enlightened Sufis

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“I must find a master, I must test him, I must drink water after straining it.” ...
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AMIR KHUSRAU (1253-1325 CE) - Abu'l Hasan Yamīn ud-Dīn Khusrau, better known as Amīr Khusrau was ...
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Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya, aka. Muhammad Nizamuddin Auliya - 1238 – 1325, also known as Hazrat Nizamuddin, ...
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BABA FARID (1175 A.D.) - Farīd al-Dīn Masʿūd Ganj-i-Shakar (c. 4 April 1179 – 7 May ...

Literary Figures | Philosophers

Alain de Lille was a French theologian and poet. He was born in Lille, some time ...
Hildegard of Bingen (German: Hildegard von Bingen; Latin: Hildegardis Bingensis; c. 1098 – 17 September 1179), also ...
Rabindranath Tagore FRAS (born Rabindranath Thakur, 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941; sobriquet Gurudev, Kobiguru, ...
William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. ...

Musicians

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Tomaso Albinoni was an Italian Baroque composer born on June 8, 1671, in Venice, Italy. He ...
Literary Figures November 2, 2021
Hildegard of Bingen (German: Hildegard von Bingen; Latin: Hildegardis Bingensis; c. 1098 – 17 September 1179), also ...
Musicians November 2, 2021
Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi( February 1922 – 24 January 2011) was one of the greatest Indian vocalists ...

Religious Figures

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Tukaram was born in a low caste family of a shopkeeper in Dehu. His first wife ...
Religious Figure June 21, 2022
SANT EKNATH(1533-1599 A.D.)A young boy of 12, had such yearning for God, he prayed fervently in ...
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KABIR(1440-1518 A.D.)In the far villages of Central India one can hear the humming of thousands of ...

Rulers & Administrators

Alfonso, El Sabio (Alfonso X, the Wise, of Castile). The philosopher-king, Alfonso X (1221-1284), known as ...
The grandson of Babur, the founding emperor of the Mughal dynasty in India, Akbar was born ...
Lal Bahadur Shastri (2 October 1904 – 11 January 1966) was an Indian statesman who served ...

Scientists

Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged ...