Pandit Ravishankar Shukla (Hindi: पंडित रविशंकर शुक्ल, 2 August 1877, Sagar – 31 December 1956, Delhi ) was a leader of the Indian National Congress, Indian independence movement activist, the Premier of the Central Provinces and Berar from 27 April 1946 to 25 January 1950, the first Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh state from 26 January 1950 to 31 October 1956 and then the first chief minister of the reorganized Madhya Pradesh state, the biggest state of India consisting of Mahakoshal, Madhya Bharat, Bhopal and Vindhya Pradesh from 1 November 1956 till his death on 31 December 1956.He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Freedom Movement, as well as his "Grand Old Man" persona and robust masculinity.

Pandit Ravi Shankar Shukla was born to Pandit Jagganath Shukla (1854–1924)and Tulsi Devi (1858–1941)in a Kanyakubj Brahmin family on 2 August 1877, at Sagar in the Central Provinces of British India. The Mundan of boy Ravishankar was solemnized at the powerful shrine of Mahadeva, a cave temple at the foothills of the Mahadev Hills known for its mounted giant Trishools and chanting of "Har Har Mahadev".

Raman Singh (born 15 October 1952) is an Indian politician who as of March 2012^[update] is the Chief Minister of Chhatisgarh and has been so since 7 December 2003. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Raman Singh was born on 15 October 1952. He comes from a farming family, his father being Vighnaharan Singh Thakur and his mother, Sudha Singh. He is a doctor of Ayurvedic Medicine and is married to Veena Singh.

Singh joined the Bharatiya Jan Sangh as a youth member and progressed to become a councilor.^{[citation needed]}

He was elected to Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly in 1990 and 1998. In 1999 he was elected to the Lok Sabha from the Rajnandgaon constituency in Chhattisgarh. In the government of Atal Bihari Vajpayee government, Singh became the Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry. He was later named as President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the new state of Chhattisgarh, and led the party to a victory in the 2003 state Assembly elections. With the other main contender for the Chief Minister's post, Dilip Singh Judeo, caught in the midst of a scam, the BJP leadership named Raman Singh as Chattisgarh's second Chief Minister, and the first person to be elected to that post.

Ravi Shankar (Bengali: রবি শংকর; born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury on 7 April 1920), often referred to with the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar. He has been described as the most known contemporary Indian musician by Hans Neuhoff in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.

Shankar was born in Varanasi and spent his youth touring Europe and India with the dance group of his brother Uday Shankar. He gave up dancing in 1938 to study sitar playing under court musician Allauddin Khan. After finishing his studies in 1944, Shankar worked as a composer, creating the music for the Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, and was music director of All India Radio, New Delhi, from 1949 to 1956.

In 1956, he began to tour Europe and America playing Indian classical music and increased its popularity there in the 1960s through teaching, performance, and his association with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and George Harrison of The Beatles. Shankar engaged Western music by writing concerti for sitar and orchestra and toured the world in the 1970s and 1980s. From 1986 to 1992 he served as a nominated member of the upper chamber of the Parliament of India. Shankar was awarded India's highest civilian honor, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999, and received three Grammy Awards. He continues to perform in the 2000s, often with his daughter Anoushka.

Arvind Gupta is an Indian toy inventor and populariser of science.

As a student in the 1970s in Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Gupta became a socialist in belief but eschewed actionless discourse; he stated that instead he "placed more faith in small positive action than empty rhetoric." Gupta began his social service by teaching the children of the mess staff who had no opportunities for formal education.

Gandhian in outlook, Arvind Gupta participated in the Hoshangabad Science Teaching Programme (HSTP) in Madhya Pradesh in 1978. While he was there he developed his idea of creating simple toys and educational experiments using locally available materials as well as items usually thrown as trash. These simple toys, he found, fascinated children and Gupta went on to make these as the hallmark of his movement of popularising science. His first book, "Matchstick Models and other Science Experiments" was reprinted in 12 languages. Gupta's website holds instructions, including short video clips on YouTube, in a number of languages, for making hundreds of improvised toys, which he makes available freely without copyright restrictions. Gupta draws inspiration from a number of people, including Gautama Buddha, George Washington Carver and his mother.

Ravi Shukla (born November 4, 1983 in Kolkata, West Bengal) is an Indian singer. He was the winner of the popular Indian television singing competition, Star Voice of India. He was also a participant of the first seasons of Indian Idol and Star Voice of India.

Ravi was born to Radhey Shyam Shukla and Santosh Shukla in Kolkata, West Bengal. His father is a businessman and his mother is a homemaker. He has four older sisters, who are happily married and settled in Rajasthan. Ravi attended Don Bosco High & Technical School, Liluah and graduated from St Xavier's College, as a student of the University of Calcutta.

In 2004, Ravi was selected in the show, Indian Idol, in its first season. Though he could not make it to the top, it was the notably the turning point in his career. From then on, there was no looking back for this spunky and talented singer.

He started taking singing lessons from Pandit Jayanto Bose in June 2005. A year later, he went on an international tour to the US for 7 months and performed in many big cities. He also learned music at the Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Dha Ni Sa Academy in Mumbai.