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Swaminathan Family
{{Unreferenced, date=December 2009 The Swaminathan family is an Indian family, prominent in public affairs. Its members include: * Subbarama Swaminathan, advocate *Ammu Swaminathan (his wife), social activist and politician **Lakshmi Sehgal (his daughter), freedom fighter and presidential candidate **Prem Sehgal (his son-in-law), soldier and officer Indian National Army ***Subhashini Ali, (his granddaughter), communist politician ****Shaad Ali, (his great grandson), Bollywood filmmaker **Mrinalini Sarabhai (his daughter), danseuse **Vikram Sarabhai (his son-in-law), scientist ***Mallika Sarabhai, (his granddaughter), danseuse and activist **Govind Swaminadhan See also Sarabhai family The Sarabhai family is a prominent Indian family active in several fields. The patriarch, Ambalal Sarabhai, was a leading industrialist. While he created significant wealth, his children interested themselves in a wide variety of other endeavo ... Indian families Hindu families ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ammu Swaminathan
Ammu Swaminathan or A. V. Ammakuti (22 April 1894 – 4 July 1978) was an Indian social worker and political activist during the Indian independence movement and a member of the Constituent Assembly of India. Early life Ammukutty Swaminadhan was born into the Vadakkath family of Anakkara in Ponnani taluk, Kerala. Her father, Govinda Menon, was a minor local official. Both of Ammu's parents belonged to the Nair caste, and she was the youngest of their thirteen children, which included nine daughters. Ammu never went to school and received only a rudimentary education at home, which consisted of minimal reading and writing in Malayalam, cooking and keeping house, to prepare her for married life. She lost her father at a very young age, and her mother struggled to raise her children and arrange marriages for her many daughters. Resultantly, when Ammu was 13, her mother arranged an alliance for her which conformed to the Sambandam system which was well accepted in Kerala society a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lakshmi Sehgal
Lakshmi Sahgal () (born Lakshmi Swaminathan; 24 October 1914 – 23 July 2012) was a revolutionary of the Indian independence movement, an officer of the Indian National Army, and the Minister of Women's Affairs in the Azad Hind government. Lakshmi is commonly referred to in India as Captain Lakshmi, a reference to her rank when taken prisoner in Burma during the Second World War. Early life Captain Lakshmi was born to a Tamil brahmin father and Malayali Nair ( Menon) mother as Lakshmi Swaminathan in Madras on 24 October 1914 to S. Swaminathan, a lawyer who practiced criminal law at Madras High Court, and A.V. Ammukutty, better known as Ammu Swaminathan, a social worker and independence activist from an aristocratic Nair family known as "Vadakkath" family of Anakkara, Ponnani taluk, Malabar District, British India. She is the elder sister of Mrinalini Sarabhai. Lakshmi studied in Queen Mary's College and later chose to study medicine and received an MBBS degree from Madras ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prem Sehgal
Lieutenant colonel Prem Kumar Sahgal (25 March 1917 – 17 October 1992) was an officer of the British Indian Army. After becoming a Japanese prisoner of war, he served as an officer in the Indian National Army, which was led by Subhas Chandra Bose and had been set up by the Japanese ostensibly to fight against British rule in India. Life Sahgal was educated at the Central Model High School and Government College, Lahore. In 1936, he passed the military entrance exam and went to the Indian Military Academy at Dehradun. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant on the Special List published on 1 February 1939 and was attached to the 2nd Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, then stationed at Secunderabad. He joined that battalion on 24 February 1939 and remained there for a year. That battalion was posted to Singapore in August 1939, in anticipation of war, but Sahgal was transferred to the 1st Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment, which remained in a peace stati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian National Army
The Indian National Army (INA; ''Azad Hind Fauj'' ; 'Free Indian Army') was a Collaboration with the Axis powers, collaborationist armed force formed by Indian collaborators and Imperial Japan on 1 September 1942 in Southeast Asia during World War II. Its aim was to secure Indian Independence movement, Indian independence from British Raj, British rule. It fought alongside Japanese soldiers in the latter's campaign in the South-East Asian theatre of World War II, Southeast Asian theatre of WWII. The army was First Indian National Army, first formed in 1942 under Rash Behari Bose by Indian PoWs of the British Indian Army captured by Japan in the Malayan campaign and Battle of Singapore, at Singapore. This first INA, which had been handed over to Rash Behari Bose, collapsed and was disbanded in December that year after differences between the INA leadership and the Japanese military over its role in Japan's war in Asia. Rash Behari Bose handed over INA to Subhas Chandra Bose. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suhasini Ali
Suhasini Maniratnam (born 15 August 1961) known mononymously as Suhasini, is an Indian actress, director, producer and writer in the Tamil film industry. She has worked as an actress in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada films. She made her cinematic debut with the 1980, Tamil film. ''Nenjathai Killathe''. Suhasini then won National Film Award for Best Actress for her performance in ''Sindhu Bhairavi'' (1985). Suhasini has won 4 Filmfare Awards, 2 Kerala State Awards, 2 Tamilnadu State Awards and 2 Nandi Awards. Early life Her paternal cousins Anu Hasan, Shruti Haasan and Akshara Haasan have also since become actresses. Suhasini attended the Municipal Elementary School in Paramakudi, before moving to Madras aged 12 to live with her grandmother and uncle Kamal Haasan. Film career As an actress She made her film debut in 1980 with the Tamil movie ''Nenjathai Killathe''. In her first movie itself, she won the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Actress. She was introdu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaad Ali
Shaad Ali is an Indian filmmaker. Early life and education Ali was born to Muzaffar Ali and Subhashini Ali (née Sahgal), an Indian politician and member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He is thus the grandson of Azad Hind Fauj commander Lakshmi Sahgal. He studied at the Welham Boys' School and the Lawrence School, Sanawar. Career Shaad Ali started his career as an assistant director to Mani Ratnam, and assisted him on the film '' Dil Se..'' (1998). He made his directorial debut under Yash Raj Films and Madras Talkies, with '' Saathiya'' (2002), starring Vivek Oberoi and Rani Mukerji. The film was a remake of Mani Ratnam's Tamil film ''Alaipayuthey'' (2000). ''Saathiya's'' script was written by Ratnam. The film did well and established Shaad Ali in the industry. His second film was ''Bunty Aur Babli'' (2005) which for the first time brought together real-life father and son Amitabh Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan alongside Rani Mukerji. The film was one o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mrinalini Sarabhai
Mrinalini Vikram Sarabhai (11 May 1918 – 21 January 2016) was an Indian classical dancer, choreographer and instructor. She was the founder and director of the Darpana Academy of Performing Arts, an institute for imparting training in dance, drama, music and puppetry, in the city of Ahmedabad. She received Padma Bhushan in 1992 and Padma Shri in 1965. She also received many other citations in recognition of her contribution to art. Biography Early life and education Mrinalini was born to a Tamil Brahmin father and Malayali Nair mother in present-day Kerala on 11 May 1918. Her parents were Subbarama Swaminathan, a distinguished lawyer with degrees from Harvard and London Universities, practised criminal law at Madras High Court, and A.V. Ammukutty, better known as Ammu Swaminathan, a social worker, an independence activist, and later a parliamentarian. She attended a boarding school in Switzerland for two years, where, she received her first lessons in the Dalcroze school, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vikram Sarabhai
Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai (12 August 1919 – 30 December 1971) was an Indian physicist and astronomer who initiated space research and helped develop nuclear power in India. He was honoured with Padma Bhushan in 1966 and the Padma Vibhushan (posthumously) in 1972. He is internationally regarded as the Father of the Indian Space Program. Personal life Son of Ambalal Sarabhai, he came from the famous Sarabhai family from India who were major industrialists committed to the Indian independence movement. Vikram Sarabhai married the classical dancer Mrinalini in 1942. The couple had two children. His daughter Mallika gained prominence as an actress and activist, and his son Kartikeya too became an active person in science. During his lifetime, he practiced Jainism. He attended Gujarat College, Ahmedabad, but later moved to the University of Cambridge, England, where he took his tripos in natural sciences in 1940. In 1945 he returned to Cambridge to pursue PhD and wrote a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mallika Sarabhai
Mallika Sarabhai (born 9 May 1954) is an activist and Indian classical dancer and actress from Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Daughter of a classical dancer Mrinalini Sarabhai and space scientist Vikram Sarabhai, Mallika is an accomplished Kuchipudi and Bharatanatyam dancer and performer who has specialized in using the arts for social change and transformation. Early life Mallika Sarabhai was born in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India to Vikram Sarabhai and Mrinalini Sarabhai. She completed her MBA from IIM Ahmedabad in 1974 and Doctorate in Organisational Behaviour from the Gujarat University in 1976. She is a noted choreographer and dancer and has also acted in a few Hindi, Malayalam, Gujarati and international films. Career She started to learn dancing when she was young and started her film career in the parallel cinema when she was 15. Mallika played the role of Draupadi in the Peter Brook's play ''The Mahabharata''. Mallika has won many accolades during her long career, the Golden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Govind Swaminadhan
Govind Swaminadhan (9 October 1909 – 30 September 2003) was an Indian lawyer who served as the Advocate-General of Tamil Nadu from 1969 to 1976. He also served as president of the Madras Bar Association. Early life and education Govind was born on 9 October 1909 to lawyer Subbarama Swaminathan, an Iyer Brahmin, and his Nair wife Ammu Swaminathan. He was the oldest of four siblings, the others being Lakshmi Sehgal (1914-2012, Mrinalini Sarabhai (1918-2016) and Subbaram Swaminadhan . He had his education at Madras and Oxford and qualified as a barrister from the Inner Temple in 1935. Career Govind practised at the Madras High Court serving as Crown Prosecutor and later as Standing Counsel for the Government of India. One of his important trials as Crown Prosecutor was the Lakshmikanthan Murder Case. In 1969, Govind was appointed Advocate-General of Tamil Nadu during the tenure of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (; DMK) is a political pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarabhai Family
The Sarabhai family is a prominent Indian family active in several fields. The patriarch, Ambalal Sarabhai, was a leading industrialist. While he created significant wealth, his children interested themselves in a wide variety of other endeavours, and the family is better known for those activities, rather than for industrial enterprise, which is now all but defunct. Family history The Sarabhai family are major business family of India belonging to the Shrimal Jain community. Its twentieth century doyen Sheth Ambalal Sarabhai, was a Jain industrialist. He had five daughters and three sons who were involved in the family business as well as the Indian independence movement. After India's freedom, the family remained involved in developmental tasks undertaken by the government of India. Ambalal Sarabhai was a prominent mill-owner and also interested in philanthropic activities. His wife Sarladevi Sarabhai was impressed by the Maria Montessori philosophy and in the year 1922, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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