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Valmiki |
A celebrated Sanskrit poet of ancient India, and author of the Ramayana. |
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Vasco de Gama(1470-1524) |
The Porttuguese explorer who made the first voyage from Europe, round Africa
to the east and reached Calcutta (India) in 1498. |
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Vijayalakshmi Pandit(1900-90) |
Sister of Jawaharlal Nehru, Vijayalakshmi Pandit was the first woman
minister of an Indian state (UP). She holds the distinction of being the
first woman to become President of the UN General Assembly and the first
India woman Ambassador to Moscow. |
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Vivekanand, Swami(1863-1902) |
A disciple of Ramakrishna Paranhansa he championded the greatness of the
Vedantic philosophy. HIs famous talk at the Chicago Conference of World
Religions in 1893 made the Westerners realize the greatness of India for the
first time. He established the Ramakrishna Mission, in memory of his guru. |
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Vladimir Lenin(1870-1924) |
Also known as Nikolai Lenin, he was a Russian revolutionary leader. He was
exiled to Siberia in 1895 where he continued to guide the revolutionary
struggle of the Russian people. In 1898 he created a new party-the Bolshevik
Party-to bring about a communist revolution in Russia. On November 7, 1917,
a new Socialist government was formed under the leadership of Lenin. |
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