MANY think of India, born of a violent partition in 1947, as itself harboring two identities: a smartphone wielding, English-speaking, fast-growing democracy that prefers macchiatos to masala chai, and a predominantly lower-caste, mystically minded mass of peasants who spend their days herding buffalos and wading through water-clogged rice paddies.
India born and raised, he is based in New York and has lived in the United States for 29 years; he took an undergraduate degree in India, a master's in engineering at Virginia Tech and an M.B.A. at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Wells Fargo chose to kick off the Diwali season by continuing its collaboration with Operation Smile, an international medical charity, to help provide life-changing surgeries for children and young adults in India born with cleft lip and cleft palate.
1595 Wadali, India 1644 Kiratpur, India Hargobind, (born 1595, Wadali, India died 1644, Kiratpur, near the Himalayas) sixth Sikh Guru, who developed a strong Sikh army and gave the Sikh religion its military character, in accord with the instructions of his father, Guru Arjan (1563 1606), the first Sikh martyr, who had been executed on the order of the Mughal emperor Jahāngīr.
1543? Rajapur?, India 1623 Varanasi, India Tulsidas, (born 1543?, probably Rajapur, India died 1623, Varanasi) Indian Vaishnavite (devotee of the deity Vishnu) poet whose principal work, the Hindi Ramcharitmanas ("Sacred Lake of the Acts of Rama"), remains the most-popular version of the story of Rama.
March 21 , 1916Bihar, India August 21, 2006 Varanasi, India Bismillah Khan, (born March 21 , 1916 Bihar, India died Aug. 21, 2006, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India), Indian musician who, played an often-scorned woodwind instrument, the shehnai, an oboelike North Indian horn, with such expressive virtuosity that he became a leading Indian classical music artist.
1544 Ahmadabad, India c. 1603 Naraina, India Dadu, (born 1544, Ahmadabad, India died c. 1603, Naraina), Hindu-Muslim saint who inspired the formation of a sect called Dadu Panth.
1879 Hosur, India December 25 , 1972Chennai, India Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, (born 1879, Hosur, India died Dec. 25, 1972, Madras [now Chennai]), the only Indian governor-general of independent India.
April 15 , 1887Baliatore, India April 24 , 1972Kolkata, India Jamini Roy, (born April 15 , 1887 Baliatore, India died April 24 , 1972 Calcutta [now Kolkata]), Indian artist.
December 22, 1887 Erode, India April 26 , 1920Kumbakonam, India Srinivasa Ramanujan, (born December 22 , 1887 Erode, India died April 26 , 1920 Kumbakonam) Indian mathematician whose contributions to the theory of numbers include pioneering discoveries of the properties of the partition function.
1479 Khadur?, India 1574 Goindwal, India Amar Das, (born 1479, Khadur?, India died 1574, Goindwal) third Sikh Guru (1522 74), appointed at the advanced age of 73, noted for his division of the Punjab into administrative districts and for encouraging missionary work to spread the faith.
