KBC also has quiz on Audio and Visual screening of famous PERSONALITIES. It will by of immense value if one remembers their voice and images.
TAGORE'S SPEECH IN BERLIN
GUESS THE ACTRESS BY THE VOICE
TITLES AND NICKNAMES OF INDIAN PERSONALITIES
Kailash Satyarthi:
A devout campaigner against child labour, Kailash Sharma or Satyarthi (bearer of truth) is only the second Indian winner of the Nobel Peace Prize after Mother Teresa. The founder of the Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save the Childhood Movement), Satyarthi started working as a child rights activist when the country did not have many. He has directly contributed towards protecting the rights of more than 83,000 children from 144 countries. Satyarthi has been the subject of many a documentaries, talk shows, and awareness films.
K. Radhakrishnan:
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman and Padma Bhushan Dr. Radhakrishnan created and unleashed a historical moment when Mars Orbiter became first Indian spacecraft to enter Martian orbit in a maiden attempt. In December recently, he also guided ISRO to blast its heaviest ever rocket GSLV Mark-III, paving the road to manned space missions.
Chetan Bhagat
The Indian author was adjudged “the biggest selling English language novelist in India’s history” by The New York Times. It took just 3 months for his book ‘Revolution 2020′ to sell one million copies. At the age of 36, Bhagat entered the Time magazine’s list of World’s 100 Most Influential People 2010. His debut as a screenwriter for the movie ‘Kick’ was a huge success as the Bollywood flick entered the Rs. 200-crore club within two weeks of its release. Having made reading a cool habit among India’s youth, Chetan can boast a following of 4 million on Twitter, way higher than luminaries like Shashi Tharoor and Vijay Mallya.
Sundar Pichai
In a major shake-up at Google, co-founder CEO Larry Page made Sundar the new product king who became responsible for everything that Google offers from search, ads Google+, maps, commerce and infrastructure teams. The meteoric rise of young and brilliant Chennai-born Pichai from a senior vice president to #2 position is a calculated move to continue building vastly successful products aligned with the teenager mindset.
Nandan Nilekani
One of the richest candidates to have contested 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Nilekani is worth around Rs 8,000 crore. The man behind the Unique Identification (UID) campaign, which has delivered 70.43 crore Aadhaar cards in the country as on November 15, is revered for his expertise in implementing e-Governance projects. After the success of UID Campaign, the ex-Infosys chief has started incubating ideas to bring reforms in the Indian education system, especially the primary education.
Mary Kom
Nicknamed ‘Magnificent Mary’, this fighter from Manipur became the first Indian woman boxer to get a Gold Medal in the Asian Games in 2014. The biopic on Mary Kom grossed a whopping Rs.104 crores worldwide within one month of its release. Both Padma Bhushan and Arjuna Award came her way in 2013. She is the only Indian woman boxer to have qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal.
Mukesh Ambani
Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh led Yahoo India’s 2014 search list of finance newsmakers. Despite a tough economic environment, he managed to grow his business exponentially and is mulling to invest over Rs.1.5 lakh crores in new ventures ahead. His recent decision to soft launch Reliance Jio this year in 4G segment is seen as a game-changer in the telecom world. The takeover of Network 18, India’s large media conglomerate has also signalled its intentions to consolidate its interests in media market.
P. Sathasivam
The first ex-Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to be appointed as the Governor of a state, Sathasivam became a controversial figure after he blocked CBI’s efforts to bring a separate murder case against Amit Shah, the BJP President, in the fake encounter case in Gujarat. His appointment as the Governor of Kerala is seen as a favour received from BJP. In his capacity as the CJI, he delivered the judgment in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case, sentencing Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt to five years of imprisonment.
Sachin and Binny Bansal
Founders of now-famous e-commerce store Flipkart, Sachin and Binny Bansal took its valuation to over $11 billion this month. After cornering an additional $700 million this month, speculation is rife that Flipkart may go public. The Bansals acquired fashion e-tailer Myntra in May and sparked a storm in October when their Big Billion Day Sale over Rs.600 crores within 10 hours.
Rohit Bansal
The Snapdeal co-founder and COO Rohit Bansal was instrumental in setting up India’s second-largest e-commerce firm after Flipkart. With over 1400 employees and 50,000 sellers selling five million products on his site, Rohit has plans to have over 100,000 sellers by next year. Snapdeal has already raised over $800 million funding this year, which will be used for infrastructure development for mobiles and sourcing talent.
R.K. Pachauri
Nobel-laureate Dr. R.K. Pachauri is the chairman of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and director general, The Energy & Resources Institute. PM Modi has decided to retain him while restructuring the high-level council on climate change recently. An industrial engineer and economist by training, he is a noted leader on energy and environment issues.
Azim Premji
Wipro chairman Azim Premji pioneered a new era of philanthropic leadership by donating half of his fortune to a trust. Leading key educational initiatives through Azim Premji Foundation, he also figured in the top 10 list of Asian tech billionaires 2014 with a net worth of $16 billion. E-commerce industry has recently caught Premji’s fancy and he has made substantial investments in Myntra and Snapdeal.
Kiran Majumdar Shaw
Leading the Business Today‘s Top 13 Most Powerful Women in Indian Business is Kiran, founder of India’s leading listed biotechnology firm Biocon. In a first-of-its-kind tie-up globally, Biocon and Mylan together sought to introduce biosimilar for breast cancer treatment among Indian women in January. Her latest tweet about genetically modified technology triggered a huge controversy on Twitter.
