Brahmabandhab Upadhyay

Brahmabandhab Upadhyay

male
Brahmobandab Upadhyaya was a Bengali Brahmin and nephew of the Indian freedom-fighter Kalicharan Banerjee who converted to Anglicanism. Upadhyaya,...
Swami Sahajanand Saraswati

Swami Sahajanand Saraswati

male, deceased (1950)
Swami Sahajananad Saraswati (1889-1950), was born in a Jujhoutia Bhumihar Brahmin family of Gazipur of Uttar Pradesh state of India, was an ascetic...
Tushar Gandhi

Tushar Gandhi

male, 49 years old
Tushar Arun Gandhi(तुषार गांधी) (born January 17, 1960) is a great-grandson of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the Indian who helped India gain in...

Vajrabodhi

male
Vajrabodhi was an Indian buddhist monk and Zhen Yan teacher in Tang China. Vajrabodhi was the second of three Vajrayana missionaries to...

Swaminathan Aiyar

male
Swaminathan Anklesaria Aiyar is a noted Indian economist and journalist. An alumnus of The Doon School and St Stephen's College, he earned a...
Rahul Sankrityayan

Rahul Sankrityayan

male, deceased (1963)
Rahul Sankrityayan (1893-1963) was one of the most widely traveled scholars of India, who spent forty-five years of his life on travel and away...

F. W. Bain

male, deceased (1940)
Francis William Bain was a British writer of fantasy stories that he claimed were translated from Sanskrit. The first of these was "A Digit of the...
Asanga

Asanga

male, 1709 years old
Asanga (also called Aryasanga), born around 300 CE, was an exponent of the yogācāra school of Buddhist philosophy. Traditionally, he and his ha...
D. K. Pattammal

D. K. Pattammal

female, 90 years old
The vocalist Damal Krishnaswamy Pattammal (March 28, 1919 -) is one of the most popular and respected Carnatic musicians. Pattammal and her...
Chattampi Swamikal

Chattampi Swamikal

male, deceased (1925)
Chattampi Swamikal was a Hindu sage and one of Kerala’s famed religoius and social reformer. Chattampi Swamikal along with his contemporary Sree Nā...