- Kapil Sibal
Kapil Sibal was born in Jalandhar, Punjab on August 8 1948. He obtained his M.A. in History from St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi, Delhi and LL.M. from Harvard Law School, USA. He was offered appointment to the Indian Administrative Service, but declined the offer. He joined the Bar association in 1972. He was designated as a senior advocate in 1983. He has contributed articles on important issues such as security, nuclear proliferation, terrorism etc., …
- Upendra Baxi
Professor Upendra Baxi is an eminent legal scholar, currently (since 1996) Professor of Law in Development at the University of Warwick. He has been the Vice Chancellor of University of Delhi(1990-1994), prior to which he held the position of Professor of Law at the University of Delhi for 23 years(1973-1996). He as also served as the Vice Chancellor of the University of South Gujarat, Surat (1982-1985). Professor Baxi did his LL.B. from Rajkot (South Gujrat) University.
- Veena Das
Veena Das (born 1945) is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University. She also serves on the Executive Board of the Institute of Socio-Economic Research on Development and Democracy in India. She studied at the Delhi School of Economics at the University of Delhi and taught there from 1967 to 2000. She is a leading figure in Indian anthropology. Her research interests include: Feminist movements, gender studies, sectarian violence, …
- Arun Jaitley
Arun Jaitley (born December 28, 1952), is an Indian politician and has served as a minister for commerce, industry, law and justice of the Union Government of India. He was born in New Delhi. He did his schooling from St. Xavier's School, New Delhi, finishing school in 1969-70. He graduated in Commerce from Shri Ram College of Commerce, New Delhi (1973). He graduated in Law from the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi in 1977.
- Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Chandra Talpade Mohanty (born 1955) is a prominent postcolonial and transnational feminist theorist. She became well-known after the publication of her influential essay, "Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses" in 1986. In this essay, Mohanty articulates a critique of the political project of Western feminism in its discursive construction of the category of the "Third World woman" as a hegemonic entity.
- Sitaram Yechury
Sitaram Yechury is an Indian politician, member of the politburo of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was born on 12 August, 1952 in an Andhra Brahmin family hailing from Kakinada. After school education in Hyderabad, he had to move to Delhi due to disruption of academic life as a result of the Telengana movement in 1969. At Delhi, in 1970 he completed Higher Secondary (one Year Course) standing first in the All India merit list.
- Bingu Wa Mutharika
Bingu wa Mutharika (born February 24, 1934) is a Malawi economist, politician, and the current President of Malawi. He took office on May 24, 2004, after winning a disputed presidential election. Born Brightson Webster Ryson Thom in Thyolo, about 30km from Malawi's commercial capital, Blantyre, he reverted to the family name of Mutharika and adopted the first name of Bingu during the 1960s when pan-Africanism was sweeping across the continent.
- Upamanyu Chatterjee
Upamanyu Chatterjee, is a Bengali Indian author. He was born in 1959, at Patna, Bihar, is one of a new generation of Indo-English writers. He graduated from St. Xavier's School, Delhi, and St. Stephen's College, of the University of Delhi. He joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1983. In 1990, he lived as Writer in Residence, at the University of Kent, UK. In 1998, he was appointed Director (Languages) in the Ministry of Human Resource Development, …
- Ruth Vanita
Ruth Vanita (1955-) is an Indian academic, activist and author who specializes in queer and gay studies. In 1978 in Delhi, Vanita was co-founder of "Manushi: A Journal about Women and Society", a pioneering journal that combined academic research and grassroots activism, and also co-editor from 1979 to 1990.
- Mrinal Miri
Mrinal Miri (born August 1, 1940) is an Indian philosopher and educationalist. He was awarded a BA in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge in 1966 and gained his doctorate in 1970. From 1970 to 1974 he was a Lecturer in Philosophy at St. Stephen College under the University of Delhi, before moving to NEHU. Professor Mrinal also served as the Director of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, from 1993 to 1999.
- Mamoni Raisom Goswami
Mamoni Raisom Goswami (1942-), also Indira Goswami and popularly "Mamoni Baideo", is a well known writer from Assam. She teaches Assamese literature at the University of Delhi with a research interest on the Ramayana.
- Andre Béteille
Andre Béteille is an Indian sociologist and writer. He is particularly well known for his studies of caste in South India. He was a Professor of Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics at the University of Delhi where he is Professor Emeritus of Sociology since 2003. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in anthropology from the University of Calcutta. Thereafter he received his doctorate from the University of Delhi.
- Satya Vrat Shastri
Dr. Satya Vrat Shastri (also written Satyavrat Shastri) is internationally known as a Sanskrit scholar. He is a honorary professor at the Special Centre for Sanskrit Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He was formerly the head of the Department of Sanskrit and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Delhi, where he was the Pandit Manmohan Nath Dar Professor of Sanskrit, from 1970 through 1995.
- Giridhari Lal Pandit
Giridhari Lal Pandit is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Delhi. He has published several books, including The Structure and Growth of Scientific Knowledge: A Study in the Methodology of Epistemic Appraisal (1982), Methodological Variance: Es-says in Epistemological Ontology and the Methodology of Science (1991), Von der Oekologie des Bewusstseins zum Umweltrealismus (1995).
- Saleem Kidwai
Saleem Kidwai is an activist and scholar of queer and gay studies in India. He teaches history at the University of Delhi and was one of the first academics to speak publicly as a member of the LGBT community. His other academic areas of interest are Mughal politics and culture. With Ruth Vanita, he is co-editor of a major work exploring the indigenous roots of queerness in South Asia.
- Jayant Gandhi
Jayant Kumar Gandhi is a 20-something year old native of New Delhi, India who holds a Bachelors in Information Technology from University of Delhi and is presently pursuing Masters in Computer Technology from IIT Delhi. He did his schooling from Bal Bharati Public School, Pitampura. He is the founder of NibbleGuru free computer help, a website that provides free help for home pc users. Presently he is also a moderator at PHPBuilder.com and the administrator of 4WebHelp.net.
- Arjun Malhotra
Arjun Malhotra is an Indian businessman who co-founded HCL Technologies Ltd. He is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology.
- Mayawati Kumari
Mayawati Kumari (b. January 15, 1956, Delhi) is an Indian politician, and the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. She is the president of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), and is widely perceived as the architect of the stunning BSP victory in the Uttar Pradesh Elections, 2007. Earlier, she had been the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh three times, briefly during 1995 and 1997, and from 2002 to 2003 with support from the Bharatiya Janata Party.
- Autar Singh Paintal
Autar Singh Paintal (born September 24, 1925 in Mogok, Burma; died December 21, 2004 in Delhi, India) was a medical scientist who has made pioneering discoveries in the area of neurosciences and respiratory sciences. His son Deepak, now Vice-Chancellor of Delhi University, is also at the forefront of botanical research.
- Indra Sen
Indra Sen (13 May 1903 - 14 March 1994) was a devotee of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, psycholgist, author, and educator. He was born in the Jhelum district of Punjab (now part of Pakistan), but grew up in Delhi when his family moved there. Froma young age he was interested in the spiritual quest. He completed a Master's degree in both Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Delhi. On 5 December 1928 he married Lilawati, and they had two children.
- Pradeep Dubey
Pradeep Dubey (born January 9, 1951) is a Leading Professor of Economics at State University of New York, Stony Brook and a member of Center for Game Theory in Economics at Stony Brook. He also holds a visiting position at Cowles Foundation, Yale University. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Cornell University and B.Sc. (with Honors in Physics) from University of Delhi. His areas of research interests are game theory and mathematical economics.
- George Chaponda
Dr. George T. Chaponda (born November 1 1942 in Mendulo village, Mulanje district, Malawi) is a Malawian diplomat and politician. Chaponda attended the University of Delhi from 1963 to 1969 and studied history and political science. He then worked as an assistant manager of road services in Malawi and as a legal advisor. He studied law at the University of Zambia from 1979 to 1983 and at Yale University from 1983 to 1984.
- Navarun Gupta
Navarun Gupta is an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at University of Bridgeport in Connecticut, and was the subject of a documentary on South Asian gay men. He was born in Orissa, India and spent his early childhood in Orissa and Bhopal. His family settled in Delhi, where he attended school. Gupta attained his Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronic and Communication Engineering at the University of Delhi in 1988.
- K G Suresh
K G Suresh is one of the senior journalists working in New Delhi, the capital of the Republic of India. He is currently working as Chief Political Correspondent with the Press Trust of India. With a professional experience of 18 years, Suresh is the recipient of prestigious fellowships including the Prem Bhatia Fellowship for Research in Media by Young Journalists - 2000 and Action Aid International's Media For Change Fellowship-2005.
- Balraj Madhok
Balraj Madhok (b-25 February,1920) is the former president of Bharatiya Jan Sangh and a senior politician of India in 1960s. He was born at Askardu in the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. He started his academic and political career in Jammu and Kashmir. Prof. Madhok played a key role in the accession of the state of Jammu and Kashmir to India.
- Syed Waqar Ahmed Rizvi
Dr. Syed Waqar Ahmed Rizvi (b. Dec 05 1936) is an author, researcher, critic, linguist and scholar of Urdu literature and linguistics from Pakistan. He remained associated with the University of Karachi as Professor of Urdu and Arabic. Dr. Waqar earned M.A. Urdu (1961), University of Delhi, …
- Josephine Acosta Pasricha
Josephine Acosta Pasricha (March 26, 1945-) is a Filipino indologist who translated the "Ramacharitamanasa" of Tulasi Dasa, the Hindi translation of the Ramayana by Valmiki in Sanskrit, into the Filipino language. Josephine Acosta Pasricha herself was mentored by Filipino indologist Juan R. Francisco. She made a complete unpublished Filipino translation of the seven books of the "Ramacharitamanasa" of Tulasi Dasa, accompanied with contextual, …
- Chunni Lal Vishen
Chunni Lal Vishen was born in 1934 in Rainawari, Srinagar. He did his M.Ed, M.A in Mathematics and Psychology from the University of Delhi, his MS in Industrial Engineering from University of New Haven and Ph.D from Kashmir University. He was a Fulbright Scholar in the United States and a visiting fellow at Yale University. He has worked in the field of education throughout his career, spanning about fifty years.
- Tanvir Gill
Tanvir Gill is an anchor on the Indian business news channel CNBC-TV18. She completed her graduation from Jesus & Mary College, Delhi University and her MBA from Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management, Delhi. She worked with the TV Today Network before joining TV18 Network. She is an NCFM-NSE certified Mutual Funds advisor. In CNBC-TV18, she hosts morning band shows like Your Stocks and Mid Cap Radar. She also anchors the hugely popular segment, Saas Bahu & Sensex, …
- Malati Shendge
Malati J. Shendge (born:1934) is an Indologist. She received her Ph.D in Buddhism from the University of Delhi. She has been a member of the Indian Council of Historical Research., and is currently a scholar at Jawaharlal Nehru University. She has written a number of books on the connections between the Indus Valley Civilization and Vedic culture.
- Anita Desai
Born to a German mother and an Indian father on June 24, 1937, Anita Desai spent much of her life in New Delhi. Growing up she spoke German at home and Hindi to friends and neighbors. She first learned English when she went to school. It was the language in which she first learned to read and write, and so it became her literary language.
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- Vinod Rai
Vinod Rai is the Secretary for the financial sector in the Ministry of Finance, Government of India. He is a member of the elite Indian Administrative Service. Rai received his Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University, Master of Arts in Economics from Delhi School of Economics and his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Hindu College, University of Delhi.
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- Anu Malhotra
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- Avinash Nangia
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