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Know About India

Saturday, 7 January 2012

Sachin tendulkar


Sachin Tendulkar is the most experienced player of Team India and plays as an opener in ODI and middle order batsman in Tests. He is a right handed batsman and bowls right arm leg-spin, off-spin and medium pace. He is well known as Little Master, Master Blaster and is nicknamed Tendlya. He is the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket.

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar was born 24 April 1973) into a Rajapur Saraswat Brahmin family, in Bombay (now Mumbai). His mother Rajni worked in the insurance industry,and his father Ramesh Tendulkar, a Marathi novelist, named Tendulkar after his favourite music director, Sachin Dev Burman. Tendulkar's elder brother Ajit encouraged him to play cricket. Tendulkar has two other siblings: a brother Nitin, and sister Savita.

Tendulkar attended Sharadashram Vidyamandir (High School),where he began his cricketing career under the guidance of his coach and mentor, Ramakant Achrekar. During his school days he attended the MRF Pace Foundation to train as a fast bowler, but Australian fast bowler Dennis Lillee, who took a world record 355 Test wickets, was unimpressed, suggesting that Tendulkar focus on his batting instead.He is an Indian cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. He is the leading run-scorer and century maker in Test and one-day international cricket.He is the first male player to score a double century in ODI cricket.In 2002, just 12 years into his career, Wisden ranked him the second greatest Test batsman of all time, behind Donald Bradman, and the second greatest one-day-international (ODI) batsman of all time, behind Viv Richards. Tendulkar was an integral part of the 2011 Cricket World Cup winning Indian team at the later part of his career, his first such win in six World Cup appearances for India.

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar made his Test debut against arch rivals Pakistan at Karachi in the 1989-90 series under the leadership of K. Srikkanth. Since then he played 84 Tests uninterrupted till a toe injury forced Tendulkar to skip the tour of Sri Lanka. Now, after playing 105 Test matches, he has scored 8811 runs at a healthy average of 57.58, including 31 centuries and 35 half centuries.

A complete batsman, Tendulkar made his One-Day International debut against Pakistan in the 1989-90 series. Now, after playing 314 matches, he has already scored more than 12, 000 runs which include 35 centuries and 65 half centuries.

He was also the highest run getter in two World Cup matches of 1996 and 2003, respectively. In World Cup 2003, he received Man of the Tournament award from Sir Garfield Sobers.

Wednesday, 4 January 2012

Smt. Pratibha Patil


Ms. Pratibha Devising Patil, the 12th President of Republic of India is the first Female President of India.Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil was born on December 19, 1934 in Nadgaon village of Jalgaon District, Maharashtra. With the swearing in of Ms. Patil as the first citizen of India, the male bastion in the Rashtrapti Bhawan has also been successfully stormed.
Pratibha took her school education from R.R. School and college education from Moolje Jaitha College, Jalgaon. She obtained her law degree from the Government Law College, Mumbai. She excelled during her college days, in table tennis to the extent of winning medals in various inter-college tournaments. In 1962, she was crowned 'College Queen' of M.J. College. The same year she won the assembly election she contested in an INC ticket.

She married Devisingh Ramsingh Shekhwat at the age of 31, on July 7th, 1965 after she got a perfect match. Devisingh was a Rajput, whose family had migrated from Rajasthan to Jalgaon. Since she was already popular in Maharashtra politics, she decided not to adopt her husband's surname. As Devisingh was the ex-Mayor of Amaravati, she got the support of her husband in politics. The couple have a song and a daughter.

A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, from whom she took the charge of President's office was the most popular President of India. so question arises that whether Pratibha Patil would fulfill the anticipation of people by touching the level of Dr. Kalam? It would be said in answer that seeing her old records as Governor of Rajasthan, when she showed the courage of rejecting to sing the "Rajasthan Religious Freedom Bill 2006", it seems she will not prove herself as a rubber stamp.

Mr. Manmohan Singh






Manmohan Singh was born on Monday, September 26, 1932 at Gah in the Punjab before the partition of the subcontinent. He was born to Gurmukh Singh and Amrit Kaur on 26 September 1932,in Gah, Punjab (now in Chakwal District, Pakistan), British India, into a Sikh family. He lost his mother when he was very young, and he was raised by his paternal grandmother, to whom he was very close. He was a hard working student who studied by candlelight, as his village did not have electricity. After the Partition of India, he migrated to Amritsar, India, where he studied at Hindu College. He attended Punjab University, Chandigarh studying Economics and attaining his bachelor's and master's degrees in 1952 and 1954 respectively, standing first throughout his academic career. He went on to read for the Economics Tripos at Cambridge as a member of St John's College.