Arianna Huffington, I first met Arianna in 1995 at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. We had both been invited by the Washington Times, and I insisted on sitting next to the striking Greek-born redhead (though not, strictly speaking, redheaded-born Greek). We hit it off. Arianna introduced me to her friend Newt Gingrich. I told her the Gingrich revolution was a fraud. …

Archbishop Peter Akinola was born on 27 January 1944 to a Yoruba family in Abeokuta in southwestern Nigeria. Akinola was four years old when his father died, and he was sent to live with an uncle. He attended school between ages 10 and 16, when he left school to learn a trade. After an apprenticeship in Lagos, Akinola became a …

Angelina Jolie (Angelina Jolie Voight) was born in Los Angeles, California, on June 4, 1975. She is the daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. She is an American actress. She was eleven years old, When Jolie decided She wanted to act and enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, where she trained for two years and appeared in …

Anil Biswas (1914 – 2003) Veteran Music Director Anil Biwas who gave music for memorable films such as Roti (1942), Kismet (1943), Anokha Pyaar (1948), Waaris (1954), Pardesi (1957) and Char Dil Char Raahein (1959) passed away in Delhi on May 31, 2003. Anil Biswas was born in 1914 in Barisal, now in Bangladesh. Being a talented tabla player, he worked initially …

Anil Joshi — Raasta hai lamba, bhai Manzil hai door Milke chalenge milke zaroor Hum hain naye insaan Hum chalenge seenatan Koi darr naheen jab hum Mil kar chalte hain (The path is long, brother The destination far We’ll walk together Together for sure We are a new breed We are brave There’s nothing to fear When we are together) …

Annaswamy Ranganath Rao — When the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) made it mandatory for schools across India to have a laboratory for mathematics in 2006, many considered it an innovative move. In the 100-mark maths question paper, the practical lab exam now gets 20 marks in CBSE schools. This has put one man in Ahmedabad on top of …

Anju Bobby George is an Indian Athlete, and is credited to be the First Indian Athlete ever to have grabbed a Medal at the World Athletics Championship. Also, she has won a Silver Medal at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Athletics Final event. Early Life & Introduction to Athletics She was born on the 19th of April …

Anjolie Ela Menon (born 1940) is one of India’s leading contemporary female artists. Her paintings are in several major collections. Most recently (2006), a major work “Yatra” was acquired by the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, California. Her preferred medium is oil on masonite, though she has also worked in other media, including glass (pictures of glass sculptures) and …

Anjali Bhardwaj — For this woman, ignorance is not bliss and knowledge means empowerment. And so the babus of Indian beaurocracy bow down to her demands. For, social worker Anjali Bhardwaj Sharma, makes sure that Delhiites don’t surrender to corruption and thus fights for transparency, armed with the right to Information Act. She is the founder of Satark Nagrik Sangathan, a …

Anjali Bhagwat (born on 5th December 1969 in a Marathi Daivajna family) is a rifle shooter from India. In the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, she won four golds in the individual and pairs events of Air rifle and Smallbore Rifle (Three positions). She was awarded the Arjuna award in 2000 and the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna jointly with Beenamol …