Roger Scruton — Roger Vernon Scruton is a writer, philosopher and public commentator. He has specialised in aesthetics with particular attention to music and architecture. He engages in contemporary political and cultural debates from the standpoint of a conservative thinker and is well known as a powerful polemicist. His first publication – Art and Imagination – was an exploration of …

Roger Randall Dougan Revelle, was a scientist and scholar who was instrumental in the formative years of the University of California, San Diego and was one of the first scientists to study global warming and the movement of Earth’s tectonic plates. The six-foot-four Revelle was often referred to as a “scientific giant”, both literally and figuratively. UC San Diego’s first …

Robert Ross (born Robert Rosen; December 26, 1918 – March 19, 2011) was the founder of the Ross University School of Medicine and the University of Medicine and Health Sciences (St. Kitts). Robert Ross, who is now 82 years of age and lives in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Fla. made his fortune in 1970’s. He grew up in very harsh …

Ravi Shankar was born 7 April 1920 in Varanasi to a wealthy and conservative Brahmin family of cultured Bengalis as the youngest of seven brothers, of whom four lived when he was born. Shankar’s Bengali birth name was Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury. His father, Shyam hankar, an administrator for the Maharaja of Jhalawar, used the Sanskrit spelling of the family name …

Rani Mukherjee (also known as Rani Mukerji, born March 21, 1978 in Bengal, India) is a six-time Filmfare Award-winning Indian film actress and one of the most popular Bollywood actress at present. Since her first break on celluloid in 1996, she has appeared in nearly 40 films. Today, Rani is regarded as one of the biggest names in Bollywood. Background …

Ratnadeep Adivrekar — Ratnadeep Gopal Adivrerkar (born November 13, 1974, Mumbai) is a contemporary artist from India. Born in 1974, he is the son of famous artist Gopal S. Adivrekar. He received his BFA in painting with first class from the Sir J. J. School of Art in Mumbai. He has had several important solo exhibitions Like “Memoirs of the …

Ralph Lauren was born on October 14, 1939 in The Bronx, New York, to Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants, from Pinsk, Belarus Fraydl (Kotlar) and Frank Lifshitz, a house painter. His birth name was Ralph Rueben Lifshitz. He is an American fashion designer and business executive. He is best-known for his Polo Ralph Lauren clothing brand. From a young age he started …

Rain — Jung Ji-Hoon (born June 25, 1982), better known by his stage name Rain, is a South Korean singer, recording artist, dancer, actor, model and designer. Rain’s musical career includes seven albums (six Korean, one Japanese), 19 singles and numerous concert tours around the world. His acting career began in 2003, when he won the KBS Best New Actor …

Prasoon Joshi (born 16 September 1971) is the Chairman Asia Pacific & CEO of McCann Worldgroup India. He is also a Writer, Poet, Lyricist, Screenwriter and Advertising guru. He has won the Filmfare Best Lyricist Award three times, twice consecutively – in 2007 and 2008 and again in 2014 for Bhaag Milkha Bhaag. Prasoon has also received the National Film …

Prakash Karat, (born on February 7, 1948 in Letpadan, Burma is a Communist Politician in India and the current General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) since 2005. Prakash Karat was born in Letpadan, Burma on February 7, 1948. His father worked in the Burma Railways, where he had sought employment during the British Raj. Prakash Karat is …