"Sawan Presents Anna Hazare from Biographies of Great Personalities. Kiran Baburao Hazare, better known by his stage name Anna Hazare, is an Indian social activist who has led campaigns to promote rural development, boost government openness, uncover corruption in public life, and punish those who engage in it. In addition to organising and inspiring grassroots movements, Hazare regularly went on hunger strikes to promote his goals, a method that many people compared to the efforts of Mohandas K. Gandhi and his struggle for Indian independence. He also helped to the growth and structure of Ralegan Siddhi, a hamlet in Ahmednagar district, Maharashtra, India. Ralegan Siddhi is a village in the Parner taluka of Ahmednagar district, Maharashtra, India. In 1992, the Government of India recognised his efforts in constructing this hamlet as a model for other communities by awarding him the Padma Bhushan, the country's third-highest civilian honour.
Sawan Presents Dr. Keshavarao Hedgewar from Biographies of Great Personalities. Hedgewar was born in Nagpur on April 1, 1889, into a Marathi-speaking Deshastha Rigvedi Brahmin family. His parents were Baliram Pant Hedgewar and Revatibai, a middle-class couple. Both of Hedgewar's parents perished in the 1902 plague pandemic when he was thirteen. Hedgewar's uncle saw to it that he had a solid education, and B.S. Moonje became a patron and a father figure to the young Hedgewar. He attended Nagpur's Neel City High School, when he was dismissed for singing ""Vande Mataram"" in defiance of a circular issued by the then-British colonial authority. As a consequence, he had to complete his high school education in the Rashtriya Vidyalaya in Yavatmal, followed by the Rashtriya Vidyalaya in Pune. In 1910, he was sent to Kolkata by B. S. Moonje to continue his medical education after matriculating. He returned to Nagpur in 1917 as a physician after clearing the L.M.S. Examination at the Calcutta Medical College in June 1916.
Sawan Presents Raja Ram Mohan Roy from Biographies of Great Personalities. Brahmo Sabha, the forerunner of the Brahmo Samaj, a social-religious reform movement in the Indian subcontinent, was founded by Ram Mohan Roy, an Indian social reformer who was one of the founders of the Brahmo Sabha. The Mughal emperor Akbar II bestowed the title of Raja upon him. His effect might be seen in the realms of politics, public administration, education, and religion, among other things. He was well-known for his attempts to put an end to the practises of sati and child marriage, among other things. In the opinion of many historians, Roy is referred to as ""the Father of the Bengal Renaissance.""
Sawan Presents Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar from Biographies of Great Personalities. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was an Indian jurist, economist, and social reformer who fought against economic and social discrimination against the untouchables (now dalits) in Hindu society, and who later renounced Hinduism and inspired the Dalit Buddhist movement. He was born in a Hindu family and educated in a Hindu environment. Ambedkar served as head of the Constitution of India's drafting committee and Minister of Law and Justice in Jawaharlal Nehru's first government from 1947 to 1951, during which time he was also known as the Father of the Constitution. He is also referred to as Babasaheb, which is an honorific title.
Sawan Presents Mother Teresa from Biographies of Great Personalities. Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, often known as Saint Teresa of Calcutta in the Catholic Church, was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary who lived in Calcutta during the 19th century. She was born in Skopje (now the capital of North Macedonia), which was then a part of the Ottoman Empire's Kosovo Vilayet and is now the capital of North Macedonia. After residing in Skopje for eighteen years, she travelled to Ireland and subsequently to India, where she spent the rest of her life, until passing away.
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