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List Of People From Delhi
This is a list of notable people from Delhi, India. Architect * Ratish Nanda, conservation architect Art and literature * Anurag Anand *Asloob Ahmad Ansari * Chetan Bhagat * Bedil Dehlavi (1642–1720), poet * Ghalib, Urdu/Persian poet *Kiran Desai *Madhur Jaffrey *Meenakshi Jain * Ritu Lalit * Jaishree Misra *Amrita Pritam *Aman Nath * Tushar Raheja *Nattal Sahu, writer during Tomara reign * Gaurav Sharma * Shobha Deepak Singh * Nitin Soni *Vibudh Shridhar, writer in medieval period *Sudhir Tailang, Cartoonist *Valmik Thapar * Zauq, poet laureate of Mughal court * Bahadurshah Zafar, Mughal king (last to rule from Mughal Dynasty) and Urdu poet Business *Kunal Bahl, entrepreneur *Rohit Bansal, entrepreneur *Vijay Shekhar Sharma, entrepreneur, Paytm *Analjit Singh, entrepreneur, Max Group *Vikram Lal, entrepreneur, Eicher Motors * Jawed Habib, hairstylist, entrepreneur *Patu Keswani, entrepreneur * Surinder Mehta *Bharat Ram * Kunwer Sachdev, entrepreneur * Ajay Singh, bus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delhi
Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders with the state of Uttar Pradesh in the east and with the state of Haryana in the remaining directions. The NCT covers an area of . According to the 2011 census, Delhi's city proper population was over 11 million, while the NCT's population was about 16.8 million. Delhi's urban agglomeration, which includes the satellite cities of Ghaziabad, Faridabad, Gurgaon and Noida in an area known as the National Capital Region (NCR), has an estimated population of over 28 million, making it the largest metropolitan area in India and the second-largest in the world (after Tokyo). The topography of the medieval fort Purana Qila on the banks of the river Yamuna matches the literary description of the citadel Indraprastha in the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaurav Sharma (author)
Gaurav Sharma (born 4 March 1992) is a Canadian author and novelist of Indian origin, best known for his national (India) bestselling novel, '' God of the Sullied''. His other books include, '' Diary of a Whimsical Lover'', '' Long Live the Sullied'' (sequel to God of the Sullied), '' The Indian Story of an Author'' and a semi-autobiographical fiction '' Gone are the Days'' which he completed writing in ten months. Prior to '' Gone are the Days'', Gaurav authored three textbooks related to the field of journalism and mass communication. Early life and education Sharma was born in New Delhi, raised in Sitamarhi where he spent his childhood with grandparents and completed initial school education from N.S. DAV Public School. Then he again moved to New Delhi and completed Bachelor of Journalism and Mass Communication from GGSIPU in 2014. In 2016, he earned a Post Degree Diploma in Business Administration from Langara College. He was a permanent resident of Canada until 2021. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jawed Habib
Jawed Habib (born 26 June 1963) is an Indian hairstylist, businessman and politician. Habib owns Jawed Habib Hair and Beauty Ltd., which operates across the country. Early life and background Habib's grandfather Nazir Ahmed served as the official hairdresser for Lord Linlithgow Lord Mountbatten, and Jawaharlal Nehru. His father Habib Ahmed also worked for the President of India at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. Habib attended the Jawaharlal Nehru University, obtaining a degree in French literature. During this time, he was the captain of the university cricket team and wanted to become a cricketer. At the advice of his father, he later attended the Morris School of Hair Design. Career In 1984, Jawed Habib started working with his father in their first salon, Habib's Hair and Beauty, in The Oberoi Hotel in New Delhi. Wanting international exposure and education, he went to London, UK to study advanced techniques in Morris School of Hairdressing. He started his independent salo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vikram Lal
Vikram Lal (born 1942) is an Indian billionaire businessman, the founder and former CEO of Eicher Motors, an Indian commercial vehicle manufacturer based in New Delhi, India. He has been a member of the board of directors of The Doon School. He studied mechanical engineering at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. He joined Eicher India, the family company established by his father, in 1966. Eicher started as the first tractor manufacturer in India in 1959 under the company name Eicher Tractor Corporation of India Pvt. Ltd., as a joint venture with German tractor manufacturer Eicher, and eventually branched out into light commercial vehicles in 1986, and then into heavy vehicles. His son Siddhartha Lal Siddhartha Vikram Lal (born October 1973) is an Indian businessman. He is the son of Vikram Lal, and a former chief executive officer (CEO) and the current managing director (MD) of Eicher Motors, a director of Eicher Goodearth Limited and chai ... is now CEO of Eicher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Analjit Singh
Analjit Singh (born 11 January 1954) is the founder chairman of Max Group, a conglomerate with interests in life insurance, healthcare, and real estate. He is also the founder of Leeu Collection, an international collection of boutique hotels. He was also the Non-Executive Chairman of Vodafone India. Early life Analjit Singh was born in New Delhi, the son of Bhai Mohan Singh and Avtar Kaur. His father was the founder of Ranbaxy Laboratories. Singh was the youngest of three sons. Singh spent his formative years in The Doon School. He then studied Economics at Shri Ram College of Commerce University of Delhi. before going for his MBA at Boston University. Career Singh served as the chairman of Vodafone India from February 2012 to August 2018. He has been the key spokesperson of Vodafone in India and was the main representative of the company during the Vodafone's retrospective taxation controversy with the Government of India. Singh is founder of Leeu Collection, an internatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vijay Shekhar Sharma
Vijay Shekhar Sharma (born July 15, 1978) is an Indian technology entrepreneur and billionaire businessman. He is the Chairman, Managing Director and CEO of One97 Communications and its consumer brand Paytm. He founded Paytm in 2010. In January 2022, the ICANN-supported Universal Acceptance Steering Group appointed him as UA Ambassador in India. As of September 2022, he had a net worth of $1.1 billion according to the Forbes Real Time Billionaires Index. Early life and education Vijay Shekhar Sharma was born in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh on July 15, 1978, the third of the four children of Sulom Prakash, a school teacher, and Asha Sharma, a homemaker. He did his schooling from Harduaganj, a small town near Aligarh. He was a child prodigy, beginning his college life at the age of 15 and graduating as an engineer with a B.Tech degree from the Delhi College of Engineering (now Delhi Technological University) when he was 19 years old Career In 1997, while in college, he started ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rohit Bansal
Rohit Bansal is an Indian entrepreneur, co-founder and COO of e-commerce company Snapdeal. Early life Bansal was born in Malout, Punjab India. He completed his school education at Delhi Public School (DPS) New Delhi and got his bachelor's degree in engineering from Indian Institute of Technology New Delhi. Snapdeal Bansal cofounded Snapdeal along with his school friend Kunal Bahl on February 4, 2010. In February 2020, Snapdeal Snapdeal is an Indian e-commerce company, based in New Delhi, India. It was founded in February 2010 by Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal. Snapdeal was one of the largest online marketplaces in India. Snapdeal targets the value e-commerce segment, ... invested in a startup Sanfe that deals in female hygiene products. It also invested in Ola, Bira, Razorpay, Beardo. Awards and recognitions * BMA Entrepreneur of the Year 2014 * ET Top 50 Entrepreneur of India 2014 * EY Entrepreneur of the year - Startup 2014 Family His father was a grain merch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kunal Bahl
Kunal Bahl is an Indian technology entrepreneur and investor. Early life Bahl was born in India and had completed his initial school education at Delhi Public School R. K. Puram (DPS) New Delhi. He applied to the University of Pennsylvania and received admission. He graduated from the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology at the University of Pennsylvania, earning two bachelor's degrees in Entrepreneurship, Operation & Information Management from The Wharton School and Engineering from the School of Engineering and Applied Science. He finished an executive marketing program from Kellogg School of Management. He worked with Microsoft for a short period, as he went back to India due to a visa issue in 2007. Career Bahl co-founded the e-commerce company Snapdeal in 2010. In 2022, the company assumed the group corporate identity of AceVector, which houses multiple businesses such as Snapdeal, Unicommerce, Stellaro Brands. Bahl has also been involved with various ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bahadurshah Zafar
Bahadur Shah II, usually referred to by his poetic title Bahadur Shah ''Zafar'' (; ''Zafar'' Victory) was born Mirza Abu Zafar Siraj-ud-din Muhammad (24 October 1775 – 7 November 1862) and was the twentieth and last Mughal Emperor as well as an Urdu poet. He was the second son and the successor to his father, Akbar II, who died on 28 September 1837. He was a titular Emperor, as the Mughal Empire existed in name only and his authority was limited only to the walled city of Old Delhi (Shahjahanbad). Following his involvement in the Indian Mutiny of 1857, the British exiled him to Rangoon in British-controlled Burma in 1858, after convicting him on several charges. Bahadur Shah Zafar's father, Akbar II, had been imprisoned by the British and he was not his father's preferred choice as his successor. One of Akbar Shah's queens pressured him to declare her son, Mirza Jahangir, as his successor. However, The East India Company exiled Jahangir after he attacked their resident i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zauq
Sheikh Muhammad Ibrahim Zauq (1790–1854) was an Urdu poet and scholar of literature, poetry and religion. He wrote poetry under the pen name "Zauq", and was appointed poet laureate of the Mughal Court in Delhi just at the age of 19. Later he was given the title of ''Khaqani-e-Hind'' (The Khaqani of India) by the last Mughal emperor and his disciple Bahadur Shah Zafar. He was a poor youth, with only ordinary education, who went on to acquire learning in history, theology and poetics in his later years. Zauq was a prominent contemporary of Ghalib and in the history of Urdu poetry the rivalry of the two poets is quite well known. During his lifetime Zauq was more popular than Ghalib for the critical values in those days were mainly confined to judging a piece of poetry on the basis of usage of words, phrases and idioms. Content and style were not much taken into account while appreciating poetry. Early life Zauq was born at Delhi in 1790. His father, Sheikh Muhammad Ramzan was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valmik Thapar
Valmik Thapar (born 1952) is an Indian naturalist, conservationist and writer. He is the author of 14 books and several articles, and has produced a range of programmes for television. Today he is one of India's most respected wildlife experts and conservationists, having produced and narrated documentaries on India's natural habitat for such media as the BBC, Animal Planet, Discovery and National Geographic. Early life Valmik Thapar was born in Bombay to Raj and Romesh Thapar, a noted journalist and political commentator who founded political journal ''Seminar'' in 1959. Noted Indian historian Romila Thapar is his aunt. He married theatre personality Sanjana Kapoor and the couple have a son, Hamir. They live in Delhi. Career Valmik Thapar spent decades following the fortunes of India's tiger population. He was influenced by Fateh Singh Rathore. His stewardship of the Ranthambore Foundation was recognised and he was appointed a member of the Tiger Task Force of 2005 by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sudhir Tailang
Sudhir Tailang (26 February 1960 – 6 February 2016) was an Indian cartoonist. Career Tailang was born in Bikaner, Rajasthan, on 26 February 1960. Tailang, who made his first cartoon in 1970, started his career with the ''Illustrated Weekly of India'', Mumbai, in 1982. In 1983, he joined the ''Navbharat Times'' in Delhi. For several years he was with the ''Hindustan Times'', while also doing short stints with the ''Indian Express'' and ''The Times of India''. His last assignment was with the ''Asian Age''. In 2004 he was awarded Padma Shri in the field of Literature & Education. He launched a book of cartoons titled ''No, Prime Minister'' in 2009, a set of cartoons on the former Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh Manmohan Singh (; born 26 September 1932) is an Indian politician, economist and statesman who served as the 13th prime minister of India from 2004 to 2014. He is also the third longest-serving prime minister after Jawaharlal Nehru and Indi .... He died o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
