Identify the personality - another fun game
Prakash started this thread with a few questions from a quiz at his office.
Intentionally not displaying the answers :)

She obtained a law degree from Govt. Law college,Mumbai. She was very good tennis table tennis player and won many inter-college tournaments. She was voted "College Queen" of MJ college. Her husband name is Devisingh. This was her third marriage.

a peepal tree , a banana tree , a idol , ??

He has a center named after him in a big city. It is a historic landmark.
He created, ran and finally lost control of his own company. Eventually the company was broken into multiple companies.
He was a great philanthropist.

He was born in Delhi as the second of three children.
His son is a graduate student at Stanford.
He fell down from a mango tree when he was a teenager, critically injuring himself.

He was born in Cuttack.
When asked why he was resigning from the Indian Civil Service, he replied - I studied to educate myself, not to serve the British.
He later became the Mayor of Calcutta.

X's Odoru Maharaj (The Dancing Maharaja) found a special mention in the context of strengthening of Indo-Japan ties as Manmohan Singh addressed Japanese law on 14th Dec, 2006. Manmohan Singh referred to this in his address to the joint session of Diet and said he was delighted to hear about its popularity among the young Japanese. He, also added that Japan's Odori Asimo (the dancing robot) was also impressing children in India, a remark that received much applause from the Japanese parliamentarians. Thus X helped improve the Japan-India relations.

Her real name is Nilanjana Sudeshna. A schoolteacher, who found her given name too long, used her nickname instead and it stuck. She wrote under that name; one of her major works has a character who was supposed to have a "good name" sent by his grandmother in India which gets lost in the mail.

who uses the nickname "kvkkvk" for us to see in the group ?

Cotton Prices , IBM , New York , Sierpinski Gasket
* Looking for a name or a situation / discovery.

He was an African (eunuch by some accounts).
He was sold in the slave market of Baghdad.
He rose to prominence in Delhi.
He was responsible for the downfall of the Kakatiyas of Warangal.

He used to correspond with Tipu Sultan reg fighting against the British.
He had a pet eagle when he was a child.
During battles, he used to observe it from a high vantage point, using messengers to orchestrate his troops.

He was supposedly born with clotted blood in his fist.
He "fascinated" Nehru.
The giveaway clue: He is the direct ancestor of 0.5% of people on our planet due to his lack of family planning.

He was closer to his step-mother than to his own father.
He was so strong that he could split rails.
The giveaway clue: He was one of the first examples of diligent students studying under street lights!

He is currently in Minnesota.
He'll be out of prison in 2028.
During an interview for admission into the Harvard Business School he was asked if he was smart. He famously replied, "I'm effing smart".

He ran away from his home to Visakhapatnam once.
He convinced the district collector of Nellore to help him financially while he continued his "work".
His wife died in 1994.

He was a student of medicine.
One of his photographs is supposedly *the* most famous photograph in the world, appearing in a lot of formats like t-shirts.
He took a one year trip with his friend on a motorcycle that changed his life.

He used to read while driving, (ending up in accidents).
He proposed to his first wife like this: "We might have some fun, since we both like to drink"
Remember the question of two approaching trains and a bird flying repeatedly from one train to another until they collide? When he came up with the answer almost instantly, he was asked, "So you know the trick solution?". He reportedly answered, "No, I solved the infinite series"

He came to the USA when he was a child.
He had three sons and a daughter.
One of his sons died before he died.

At an age of 30, still single, he was arrested for rash driving under the influence of alcohol near Maine. He pleaded guilty, was fined $150, and had his driver's license suspended for two years. The impact was severe and when he got married, he decided to join the Methodist church along with his wife.

He is a billionaire. He was into textile manufacturing earlier.
His family holds 70% stake in his new venture. He has setup parks which produce power.

He was one of the first employees of the company. He was the co-author / co-architect of the first three versions of the flagship product. He created the sample user (with his last name) and put the name of his pet as password for the user.

His name means legs. He is not too tall (4 ft X in) and not too heavy (5X kgs).
He wears a "backpack" always.

He crashed his airplane.
He still receives paycheck from the company he co-founded even though he is not a full time employee there anymore.
When he was young, he built a radio station and got an amateur radio license.

His was the first company to license Unix from AT&T.
He used to ask people to draw the outline of USA as a test of memory.
He used to tweak his school's computer so that the girls and boys he liked would be in his class section.
- posted by V G @ 4:46 PM