Amitabh Bachchan (Hindi: IPA: [/mitab btn/], born Amitabh Harivansh Bachchan on October 11, 1942), is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s and has since become one of the most prominent figures in the history of Indian cinema.

Jairam Ramesh is presently a Member of the Parliament of India representing Andhra Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament. He is also the Minister of State for Commerce in the current Congress Party-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government.

Inder Kumar Gujral (born 4 December 1919) was the 13^th Prime Minister of the Republic of India. Born in the town of Jhelum in Western Punjab, now in Pakistan, he actively took part in India's freedom struggle, and was jailed in 1942 during 'Quit India Movement'. In the tumultuous days of June 1975, he was minister of Information and Broadcasting. On June 12,1975, the Allahabad high court gave a verdict that Prime Minister Mrs.

Jagjivan Ram (Devanāgarī: जगजीवन राम, known popularly as Babuji was a freedom fighter and a social reformer hailing from the backward classes of Bihar in India. He served as a minister in the Indian parliament with various portfolios for more than forty years, and also served as the Deputy Prime Minister of India.

Chaudhary Bhupinder Singh Hooda (born September 15, 1947) is an Indian politician and the current Chief Minister of Haryana. His father ch.Ranbir Singh, was a member of the committee appointed to draft the Constitution of India. Hooda is well known for leading various farmer movements in Haryana. He is a member of the Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana.

Dharam Pal Yadav is a mafia don turned politician in India. He served as member of the Rajya Sabha in the Indian Parliament, under the banner of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Yadav entered the clandestine country liquor trade as a protégé of Mahendra Singh Bhati, a criminal turned politician, in the late 1970s. The first case was registered against him in 1979 in the Kavi Nagar police station of Ghaziabad. He has been charged in nine murder cases, …

Eduardo Faleiro is an Indian politician, and former federal minister, who traces his roots to Goa. He is currently (September 2006), the Commissioner for non-resident Indian affairs for the Government of Goa. Faleiro was born in Raia, in the then Portuguese colony of Goa, on August 30, 1940. He is the was a Union Cabinet minister at the Indian federal government in New Delhi from 1986 to 1996. Earlier, he was a member of the legislative assembly of Goa for a short while, …

K Francis George is a Member of the Indian Parliament (Lok Sabha), representing the Idukki constituency of Kerala. He was Leader of the Kerala Congress Parliamentary Party in 1999. Francis George represents the new breed of political figures in India who have entered public service with professional backgrounds, education and varied interests.

Venugopal Dhoot (Born 1944 in Mumbai, India) is an Indian business tycoon. He was born into a wealthy farming family, and is now married with two children. His personal fortune is estimated as the equivalent of 1.6 Billion United States dollars, making him a billionaire. His father, the late Nandlal Madhavlal Dhoot, set his sons up in his business, Videocon Electronics.

Manoj Sinha (b. July 1, 1959 in Mohanpura, Ghazipur District, India) is a member of parliament in Lok Sabha, the lower house in the Indian Parliament. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and represents the Ghazipur District. He has an M. Tech. in civil engineering from Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University. From 1989-1996, he was a member of the national council. In 1996, he was first elected to Lok Sabha, and he was reelected in 1999.

Vijayaraje Scindia (1919-2001) born Lekha Divyeshwari and until 1970 styled the Rajmata of Gwalior, was a prominent Indian political personality. In the days of the British Raj, as consort of the last ruling Maharaja of Gwalior, she ranked among the highest aristocrats of the land. In later life, she became a politician of considerable influence and was elected repeatedly to both houses of the Indian parliament.

Sardar Buta Singh (born 1934) is a former Union Home Minister under Rajiv Gandhi's Government & more recently governor of Bihar state, India. He took office on November 5 2004. He was the home minister of India during the early 1990s. He is a Sikh and was first elected to the Indian Parliament in 1962.

Maharaja Karni Singh was the ruler of the Princely State of Bikaner following its cession to India. He was a international skeet shooter champion and a member of the Indian Parliament for 25 years from 1952 to 1977. Born on 21 April 1924 at Bikaner in Rajasthan, Singh was the 23rd Bikaner Maharaja. Following his education at St. Stephen's College in Delhi and St. Xavier's College in Mumbai, …

Dr. Krishna Kumar Birla is a noted Indian industrialist of the Birla family, and the eldest surviving son of Ghanshyam Das Birla. He also served as a Member of the Rajya Sabha. In 1991 he established the K.K. Birla Foundation to promote Hindi literature and is the Chancellor of the Birla Institute of Technology and Science at Pilani. He is the group chairman of the Zuari-Chambal group of companies with a turnover of Rs.10,000 crores.

Dayanand Bandodkar (1911-03-12-1973-08-12) was the first Chief Minister of Goa after the territory was returned to India by Portugal. A wealthy mine owner, he sought to merge the territory with the state of Maharashtra. After his request to gain 18 out of 28 candidates for a merger with Maharashtra was denied by the Congress party, he formed his own Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party. He swept the polls in 1963, 1967 and in 1972 and remained in power until his death in 1973.

Seth Govind Das was a freedom fighter and a distinguished parliamentarian. He belonged to the family of Raja Gokuldas of Jabalpur. He was also a famous Hindi author. He is well known for his support of Hindi as the national language of India. He represented Jabalpur in the Indian Parliament from 1947 to 1974 and came to be called the "father of the Lok Sabha". He was a close associate and follower of Mahatma Gandhi. He was jained in Damoh for eigtht months, …

Kotha Raghuramaiah was born in 1912 in a small village, Jagarlamudi in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh, South India. He studied Bar-at-Law in United Kingdom and joined as Deputy Secretary in the Department of Law, Government of India. He relinquished the job to enter active politics in 1949. He was elected to the Indian Parliament from Tenali and Guntur constituencies. He served as a Union cabinet minister of Defense, Civil Supplies, …

Kazi Syed Karimuddin MA, LLB (19 July 1899, Yavatmal District, Maharashtra-14 November 1977) was a member of the Constituent Assembly of India that framed the Indian Constitution. The son of Kazi Syed Nasiruddin and Qadir-un-nissa Begum, he studied at the Aligarh Muslim University founded by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan. A criminal lawyer "par excellence", he was a prominent member of the Congress party.

Tan Singh was a member of the Indian Parliament twice. He was from Barmer, Rajasthan, India. He was a Mahecha Rathore Rajput. A Bhuswami leader, he was also the founder of Shri Kshatriya Yuvak Sangh, a radical organisation for young Rajputs in modern times. He remained a Member of the Legislative Assembly of India as well before entering Parliament.

The Attorney General of India is the Indian government's chief legal advisor, and its primary lawyer in the Supreme Court of India. The Attorney General is usually a highly-respected Senior Advocate, and is appointed by the ruling government. The person to occupy this position must be eligible for becoming a judge in the Supreme Court of India. The current Attorney General is Milon Banerjee, who was appointed by the Congress-led government after the 2004 General Elections.

Pearl's work in international television broadcasting specialized in broadcast news. She worked as a Morning News Director for Global Television in Canada, directing morning cut-ins to the national news broadcasts. She garnered extensive experience as Production Assistant on daily newscasts, including Canada's 5:O'Clock News , as well as teleprompting the Noon News Hour.

Dr Subhash Kashyap , former Secretary-General of the Lower House of Indian Parliament and Constitutional Adviser to the Indian Government ( biographical sketch )

Inder Kumar Gujral was sworn in as the 13th Prime Minister of India in 1997 and served until February 1998. An active participant in India's freedom struggle, Gujral was the Minister of External Affairs in the outgoing government, and held several ministerial positions from 1967 to 1976, including Minister of Communications and Parliamentary Affairs, Minister of Information and Broadcasting and Minister of Works and Housing and Minister of Planning.

Rajmohan Gandhi (Author's note) Rajmohan Gandhi is a writer and former member of Indian Parliament & grandson of Mahatma Gandhi.

Debi S. Saini , PhD (Delhi) is a Professor of Human Resource Management at Management Development Institute, Gurgaon––one of the top rung Indian management institutes––and was earlier on the faculty of Gandhi Labour Institute, Ahmedabad and University of Delhi, Delhi. His specialization includes: HRM strategy, performance management, and new industrial relations.

Indrajit Gupta served as a Member of Parliament from 1960, with a break only from 1977 to 1980 when he lost as a consequence of the CPI’s pro-Emergency policies. In Parliament, he was known for his erudition, his painstaking preparation and his wit, together making for a devastating display of oratory. Taken as a whole, his speeches will amount to the most sustained and cogent presentation of popular issues and demands made in the Indian Parliament.

Kapil Sibal Union Minister, Science and Technology