2. Guess the leader!
• I will give you clues for every one with the
maximum of 5,
• If you get it in one, you get five points,
• Two, you get four points
• Three you get three points
• Four you get two points
• Finally if it takes five, you get one point,
• If you still can’t get it you get no points.
3. Freedom is not worth having unless you also have the freedom to make
mistakes
Assassinated by Nathuram Godse
Studied law in London
Led the Dandi March
Worked in South Africa as a lawyer
5. She was a distinguished poet.
She was famously known as Bharatiya Kokila
She wanted women's rights and Indian national movement
in the wake of partition of Bengal in 1905
Her collections included "The golden threshold (1905)", "The
bird of time (1912)", and "The broken wing (1912)"
She was the first Indian woman to become the President of
the Indian National Congress
7. He was elected to the Royal Society of London in 1924
His work was on the scattering of light
He joined the Indian Finance Department in 1907
He was the first Indian scholar who studied fully in India and
received the Nobel Prize.
The British made him a knight of the British Empire in 1929
9. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies
I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness
She was honored with the Nobel Prize for her work.
She was a Catholic nun
She received the Bharat Ratna
11. He established Viswabharati University
He was a supporter of Gandhiji but he stayed out of
politics
Two songs from his collection are now the national anthems of India and
Bangladesh
He became the first Asian to became Nobel laureate when he won Nobel Prize
for his collection of poems
In 1915 he was knighted by the British King George V
13. He won the Sahitya Akademi Award for The Guide , Padma Bhushan ,
and AC Benson Medal by the Royal Society of Literature
His writing style was simplicity and subtle humour
He told stories of ordinary people trying to live their simple lives
in a changing world
He began his writing career with Swami and Friends
He was also given honorary doctorates by the University of Mysore,
Delhi University and the University of Leeds.
15. He provided spiritual enlightenment to the people of Bengal
He played a key role in the social reform movement in Bengal in
19th century
He prayed to Goddess Kali to reveal Herself to him. One day he was
so impatient to see Goddess Kali that he decided to end his life. He
seized a sword hanging on the wall and was about to kill himself with
it, when he is reported to have seen light coming from the deity in
waves. He is said to have been soon overwhelmed by the waves and
fell unconscious on the floor.
He taught non-stop for fifteen years the basic truths of religion through
metaphors, songs and by his own life experiences
His original name was Gadadhar Chattopadhyay
17. He played a major role in the spiritual enlightenment of masses
He showed a beacon of light to a nation that had lost faith in its
ability under British rule and inspired self-confidence
He reached Kanyakumari, the southern most tip of the Indian subcontinent on
December24, 1892. He swam across the sea and started meditating on a rock
Swami Vivekananda went to America to attend the Conference of World
Religions in Chicago. He got wild applause for beginning his address with
the famous words, “Sisters and brothers of America”
As a child Narendra had great respect for holy
men. He would give away anything to anybody if
asked for
19. He had the honor of being India's first pilot
He launched Air India International as India's first international
airline
He received Bharat Ratna in 1992.
He was elected Chairman of Tata & Sons making him the head
of the largest industrial group in India
On his death, the Indian Parliament was adjourned in his memory, an
honor not usually given to people who are not Members of Parliament
21. He became first Prime Minister of independent India
He received education in some of the finest schools and universities
of the world. He did his schooling from Harrow and completed his
Law degree from Trinity College, Cambridge
His real initiation into politics came when he came in contact with Mahatma
Gandhi in 1919
He played a key role in building modern India
He was one of the foremost leaders of Indian freedom struggle.
23. In the year 1979, she was chosen as the representative of India to
the UN Human Rights Commission
She was the first woman to hold a prestigious position in the cabinet
She was elected to the provincial legislature of the United Provinces
She had an interest in writing. Her writings consist of The Evolution
of India and The Scope of Happiness: A Personal Memoir
From 1962 to 1964, she served as the governor of Maharashtra
25. He was so great a person that he dedicated his entire life to the care
of leprosy patients
Baba Amte started the Unite India movement beginning from Kanyakumari to
Kashmir and then again from Gujarat to Arunachal Pradesh. The main objective
was to reinstate peace and to create environmental awareness
The Government of India presented him with the Padma Shree Award, then the Padma
Vibhushan in the year 1986, then the Welfare of the Disabled award was presented to
him and the Gandhi Peace Prize
He was of the greatest social reformers in India
Often he sacrificed his health to help experiments to help against leprosy
