When was Malcolm Sathiyanathan Adiseshiah born?
Malcolm Adiseshiah
Adiseshiah was born on 18 April 1910 in Vellore, southern India. He is the second of the five children of Paul Varanasi Adiseshiah and Grace Nesamma Adiseshiah. His father was professor of philosophy and the first Indian principal of Voorhees College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu State, India. His mother was a musician, who had studied up to the Senior Cambridge (High School) and was the first woman Councilor of the Vellore Municipality. She taught her five children until they were ten years of age. Malcolm Adiseshiah obtained a doctorate in economics at the London School of Economics, William, the eldest brother, in philosophy at Cambridge, Padmini in education and Noble in medicine.
Malcolm Adiseshiah
In 1955, he was promoted as one among the three Assistant Directors General of UNESCO and put in charge of development.
Malcolm Adiseshiah
As Dr. Barbara Harris-White of IDC, Oxford University writes,
Satish Chandra Kakati
Kakati was born at Ulabori, a small hamlet in Nalbari district, in the Northeast Indian state of Assam, in October 1912 and did his schooling at The Kamrup Academy, a school born out of nationalistic movement in Assam. His graduate studies were at the Cotton College, Guwahati when he was attracted towards the freedom movement in India and due to his involvement in the Civil disobedience movement and agitation against the "Cunningham Circular" issued by J. R. Cunningham, then director of Public Instruction, which banned student involvement in Swadeshi movement, he had to endure incarceration for three months. He was also involved in the student movements and was one of the founder secretaries of the Assam University League, which agitated for a separate university for Assam.
Thelonious Martin
Malcolm Martin (born 1992), professionally known as Thelonious Martin or King Thelonious is an American Hip Hop record producer from Chicago, Illinois. He is also a member of the Chicago collective Savemoney.
Malcolm Martin was born in 1992 in Chicago, Illinois. However, shortly afterwards he and his mother moved to New Jersey.
Malcolm Adiseshiah
Adiseshiah said:
Adiseshiah kindled efficiency by arousing team spirit. He had mastered the art of training a team to fulfil the aspirations of the mission. He made two rounds of round the world trips each year which took him to as many as twenty five countries in succession. He organized more than 120 projects in various countries for their economic and social development through education, science and culture.
Malcolm MacPherson (writer)
MacPherson was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut on August 23, 1943 and spent his early childhood in Garden Grove in Orange County, California near Disneyland. After surviving a car crash that killed his parents when he was 11 years old, he headed back East and lived with relatives in Wallingford, Connecticut. Attending a high school program during the summer in New Delhi, he had the opportunity to interview Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru, helping trigger an interest in journalism. He attended Trinity College in nearby Hartford, Connecticut, graduating in 1965.
Malcolm Dixon
Malcolm Dixon (18 April 1899 – 7 December 1985) was a British biochemist.
Malcolm Sutherland-Foggio
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Kundanika Kapadia
Kundanika Kapadia was born on 11 January 1927 at Limbdi (now in Surendranagar district, Gujarat) to Narottamdas Kapadia. She completed her primary and secondary education from Godhra. She has participated in Quit India Movement in 1942. In 1948, she completed BA in History and Politics from Samaldas College, Bhavnagar affiliated with University of Bombay. She joined MA in Entire Politics from Mumbai School of Economics but could not appear in examinations. She married Gujarati poet Makarand Dave in Mumbai in 1968. She co-founded Nadigram, an ashram near Vankal village near Valsad, with him in 1985. She is known as Ishama by her Nandigram fellows. She edited "Yatrik" (1955-1957) and "Navneet" (1962-1980).
James Aratoon Malcolm
He came to England at the age of 13 years old in 1881, for his education, under the guardianship of Albert Sassoon. As a boy he was friends with Albert Goldsmid. He was educated at the private Herne House School in Margate, Kent, before attending Balliol College, Oxford between 1886-9.
Chandrashekarendra Saraswati
Mahaperiyava was born on 20 May 1894 and brought up in the Central part of the southern state of Tamilnadu, Villupuram, South Arcot District. His father was Subrahmanya Sastri who was from a Hoysala Karnataka Smarta brahmin family that had migrated to Tamilnadu generations earlier. Subrahmanya Sastri worked as a teacher having entered the educational service. His mother Mahalakshmi, belonged to the village of Icchangudi near Tiruvaiyaru. Swaminathan was the second child of his parents. His brother was Sadasiva Sastrigal, popularly known as Sivan Sar. Sadasiva Sastri was born on 3 October 1903 in Viluppuram, South Arcot District, Tamil Nadu. Swaminathan's upanayanam was performed in Tindivanam in 1905 and during his brought up, he was well versed with the Vedas and start doing poojas at his early stage of his life. In 1906, the Sixty-sixth Acharya of Kamakoti Pitha, Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati was camping in Perumukkal, a small village near Tindivanam in observance of the Chaturmasya vrtata. Subrahmanya Sastri went to take the blessings of the Acharya at that time. The Sixty-sixth Acharya attained Siddhi at Kalavai and Swaminathan's maternal cousin was installed as the sixty-seventh Acharya. The sixty seventh Acharya had a fever and due to the unexpected turn of events, Swaminathan was installed as the Acharya. Swaminathan ascended the Kanchi Kamakoti Pitham on 13 February 1907 as the sixty eighth Acharya with the Sannyasa name Chandrasekhara Saraswati. As per the usual training given to the seers, he was well trained with the Vedas, puranas, various hindu texts and ancient Indian literature. The Acharya was fifteen years old in 1909. For two years, he studied under the pandits of the Matha at Kumbakonam. Then from 1911 to 1914 he studied in Mahendramangalam, in a tiny village on the Northern bank of Akhanda Kaveri. The Acharya showed interest in subjects such as photography, mathematics and astronomy as well. He returned to Kumbakonam in 1914. The Matha was managed by the Court of Wards from 1911-1915 until he turned twenty one in May 1915.
Adhisaya Ulagam
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Soman Ambaat
Soman Ambaat (also spelled Soman Ambatt or referred as just Soman) is an Indian director (Member of FEFKA) in Malayalam cinema. His debut film was "Aayiram Abhilashangal" (1984). This was followed by several films in Malayalam such as "Manasariyathe" (1984), "Oppom Oppathinoppum" (1986), and "Agnimuhurtham" (1987). He has also worked as Chief Associate director for movies like "Jagadguru Adisankaran" (1977), "Shrimad Bhagwadgeeta" (1977), "Ashtamangalyam" (1977), "Harshabhaspam" (1977), "Pichipoo" (1978, "Manoradham" (1978), "Vilakkum veilchavum" (1978), "Aanakkalari" (1978), "Kolillakam" (1981), and "Ponnum Poovum" (1982).
Malcolm Esajas
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Kailash Satyarthi
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Malcolm Forsyth
Malcolm Forsyth, (December 8, 1936 – July 5, 2011) was a South African and Canadian trombonist and composer. His daughter is former National Arts Centre Orchestra principal cellist Amanda Forsyth.
Madras Institute of Development Studies
MIDS' research focuses on subjects like development and planning, centre-state relationship, poverty, inequality, agrarian issues, social movements, caste and communal politics. It offers a full-time doctoral program under three classes - Indian Council of Social Science Research fellowships, RBI fellowships and Malcolm & Elizabeth Adiseshiah Ph.D. Merit Scholarship. It also offers an annual award called "The Malcolm Adiseshiah award" for mid-career academicians in the field of developmental studies. Prominent faculty members of MIDS (both past and present) include Kaushik Basu, A R Venkatachalapathy, Padmini Swaminathan and K. Nagaraj. Its publication cell publishes books and academic papers (sometimes in collaboration with Kalachuvadu Pathippagam, a Tamil publishing house). It also brings out a bi-annual bulletin called "Review of Development and Change".
Malcolm Adiseshiah
Adisehsiah succeeded Prof. Lakdawala as Chairman of Institute of Social Sciences (ISS) and last presided over the Governing Body meeting on 11 November 1994. It was in the inaugural address to the seminar on Panchayati Raj in Karnataka in October 1985 at ISS that Adiseshiah made the following often quoted comment:
His life came to a quick end. He was hospitalized for less than a week with kidney and heart ailments. He was conscious till the last day. He died on 21 November 1994, aged 84 years.
Malcolm McKesson
Malcolm McKesson (July 24, 1909 – February 5, 1999) was an American outsider artist known for his ballpoint pen drawings and his erotic fiction.
Malcolm Godden
Malcolm Reginald Godden, FBA (born 9 October 1945) is a British academic who held the chair of the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford from 1991 until 2013.
Malcolm Adiseshiah
Adiseshiah was nominated to the Rajya Sabha in April 1978 for a six-year term as one of the twelve persons under the category of those having special knowledge and practical experience in literature, science, art and social service. There were rapid changes in the composition of the central government during his term. He eschewed party politics. His erudition and experience was appreciated and his speeches, mainly on economics and education, were listened to with respect. They were interspersed with homely proverbs and quotations. He urged quick redistribution of land. He recommended imposition of income tax on rich peasants. He pleaded for a level playing field and opposed special concessions to non-resident Indians, when they invested in India. He longed for larger two-way traffic between the Central and State Planning Commissions. He advocated a national energy policy. He opposed the nationalization of sick mills in the private sector. In education, he was opposed to haphazard expansion and steadfastly stood for consolidation. He provided a strong voice for teachers. As a humanist, he was deeply concerned with reduction of poverty, especially in the rural areas. He showed his courage to dissent when the occasion demanded. He provided a distinguished example of, a role model for, what a nominated member of the Rajya Sabha should be.
Ramesh Kallidai
Kallidai was born in Tamil Nadu in India. From 1977 to 1982, Sri U.Ve NSS Rajan Iyengar, a Sri Vaishnava taught him the inner meanings and chanting procedures for various Hindu scriptures like the Vishu Sahasranamam, the Narayaniyam and other Vaishnava texts. He undertook panchasamskaram (also called Samashrayanam in the Sri Vaishnava order) from HH Srimushanam Andavan Srimad Rangaramanuja Mahadesikan of the Srirangam Andavan Ashramam, an orthodox lineage tracing back to Srimad Vedanta Desikan and Srimad Ramanujacharya.
M. S. Swaminathan
M. S. Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam, Tamilnadu on 7 August 1925. He was the second son of surgeon Dr. M.K. Sambasivan and Parvati Thangammal Sambasivan. M.S. Swaminathan learnt from his father, "that the word 'impossible' exists mainly in our minds and that given the requisite will and effort, great tasks can be accomplished." Surgeon M.K. Sambasivam, a follower of Mahatma Gandhi, took the lead in Kumbakonam in "burning his foreign clothes," a symbolic act in support of the Swadeshi movement: which emphasized the use of Indian rather than foreign-made clothes, and handloomed rather than mill-spun cloth. The political purpose of the swadeshi movement was to free India from dependence on foreign imports and to protect village industry. His father led in opening the temples to Dalits, part of the temple entry movement of the Indian independence movement in Tamil Nadu, and in eradicating filariasis in Kumbakonom, an area long infected with the dreaded disease. The sense of service to one's fellow man was thus ingrained in him early.
Malcolm Adiseshiah
Adiseshiah visited the hundred and twenty seven member states of the UN several times. He visited each one of the Third World countries that was becoming member of the UNESCO, studied its economic situation first hand, assessed its need for literacy and education and made recommendations as to how those needs could be met in the ‘Mission Reports.’ Each of the ‘Mission Reports’ were reported to be pioneering contributions about the specific regions on which the reports focused to the emerging discipline of development economics.
Malcolm Adiseshiah
As Chairman, he evinced keen interest in all activities of the Institute. The way he conducted the meetings of the Governing Council, the meticulous care with which he handled the agenda items, the intense attention he paid to every detail, the insistence that the minutes of the meetings should be made available to the members within three days and the concern he had to attract highly qualified faculty to the Institute from all regions of India were all reflections of his exceptional caliber as an institution builder. At the same time, he never interfered in the day-to-day activities of the institute which were within the administrative province of the Director. The faculty and staff had easy access to him. But they had to finish their business with him as quickly as possible since he would signal his craving to return to his unfinished work the very next moment after their business was heard or resolved!
Malcolm Cameron (entomologist)
Malcolm Cameron (1873 - 31 October 1954, London) was an English physician and entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera, particularly the rove beetles (Staphylinidae). He started his working life as a naval surgeon after qualifying in medicine at the London Hospital and collected beetles during his work at various locations. He is especially known for the five volumes on Staphylinidae in "The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma" series. He was a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society.
Malcolm Kpedekpo
Kpedekpo was born in Aberdeen, Scotland on 27 August 1976. While still at school, Kpedekpo played for Aberdeen as a centre forward. Joining the club at the age of 16, he made his debut at 18 while continuing to study, eventually completing a university degree in management and accounting. He made eleven league appearances in total, without scoring.
Sathish
Sathish Muthukrishnan (born 23 May 1987) is an Indian film actor working in the Tamil film industry. He made a breakthrough portraying a role alongside Sivakarthikeyan in "Ethir Neechal" (2013). He won Edison Award for Best Comedian for his performance in "Kaththi" (2014), "Thangamagan" (2015) and "Remo" (2016).
Sasikrishnan
Sasikrishnan is a world renowned Indian artist who is also the founder of the Philaesthoism Movement Of Art that incorporates into art, the subtle elements of love and beauty found in human relations. Born on 4 August 1966 in Vatakara, Kerala, his parents Krishnan and Kalyani were social workers. He is married to mathematician Beena Sasikrishnan and the couple have two sons, Anandu Sasikrishnan and Aditya Sasikrishnan.
Malcolm Adiseshiah
He desired the heritage sites to be well preserved. So he arranged for UNESCO funding for renovation of Sri Rangam Ranganatha, Madurai Meenakshi, Thanjavur Brahadeeswara and seven other temples. He initiated a pioneering research work by a French scholar tracing the history and traditions of Sri Rangam temple in Tamil Nadu.
Saidai Duraisamy
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Abiodun Oyewole
The group was born on May 19, 1968, Malcolm X's birthday, when Abiodun and two others, David Nelson, Gylan Kain, read poetry in tribute to Malcolm X. The group was based in black nationalism and quickly became known throughout the African-American community. They are generally credited, along with Gil Scott-Heron, as being major influences on the development of hip hop.
Malcolm Adiseshiah
The third stage of UNESCO’s activities dated from the early sixties when many African countries became independent and joined it. In 1962, he was promoted to the post of Deputy Director General of UNESCO. Then he was the sole incumbent to that office. The UNESCO began organizing important regional conferences of ministers of education or ministers of sciences along with ministries of economic development. The first Asian Ministers of Education Conference was held in Karachi in 1959 and the first conference for Africa in Addis Ababa in 1960.
Malcolm Mortimore
Malcolm Paul Mortimore (born 16 June 1953 in Wimbledon, London, England) is a drummer and percussionist who has played with Arthur Brown, Ian Dury, Herbie Flowers, Gentle Giant, Spike Heatley, Tom Jones, G.T. Moore, Mick and Chris Jagger, Oliver Jones and Barney Kessel, Frankie Miller, Chris Spedding, Troy Tate.
Achamillai Gopi
He has done a number of short films brought out by the state government, promoting social awareness, and was also bestowed the prestigious Doctor Malcolm Adiseshiah award by the Government of Tamil Nadu in 1998.
Kailasa Venkata Ramiah
Kailasa Venkata Ramiah (20 October 1926 - 24 December 1994) was a renowned educationist from Andhra Pradesh,India. He was born in Pegallapadu village of Khammam district. He stood first-in-first in both B.Sc and M.Sc from Osmania University and grew to Head the Physics Department of Osmania University. He is recipient of Sir Akbar Hyderi Gold medal and several awards during his glittering career both as student and later as an academician. He finished his post doctral (Phd) in record time and later his research was in Quantum Mechanics and "Raman Effect". He published about 100 papers in both National and International journals. He served to become the First Vice-Chancellor of Kakatiya University ( 1976–79). He founded the University from its inception.It was his vision and efforts that led to the tremendous development of Kakatiya University in a short period of time.
Malcolm McEachern
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Shaheizy Sam
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Malcolm Guthrie
Malcolm Guthrie (10 February 1903 – 22 November 1972) was a professor of Bantu languages at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London. He is known primarily for his classification of Bantu languages, Guthrie 1971. The classification, though based more on geography than linguistic relatedness, is nonetheless the most widely used. Together with the Belgian linguist Achille Émile Meeussen (1912–1978), he is regarded as one of the two leading Bantu specialists of the second half of the 20th century.
Sathyan (actor)
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Malcolm Adiseshiah
He was the Chairman of the panel which reviewed the functioning of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS). Andhra University entrusted to him the review of the working of the social science departments at Waltair. He chaired the committee set up to recommend the establishment of Mother Teresa Women's University in Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu.
Malcolm Adiseshiah
In March 1950 Adiseshiah was promoted to the post of Director of technical assistance department, he was one of its six top executives. Adiseshiah was authorized to represent the Director-General at the technical assistance board set up by the UN.
Malcolm Isbister
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Shashibhushan Raychaudhury
Shashida was born on 8 January 1863 at the village Tegharia near Barrackpore in present West Bengal. He was the youngest son of Saudamini Devi and Anandachandra, who owned some land and belonged to an old respectable family. As a student at Sodepur high school, Shashida opened a traditional primary school of the Pathshala style, to give secular education to children of indigent families, usually looked after by zealous Christian preachers. In course of time, Shashida created also evening classes for adults and, in addition to rudiments of Bengali, history and mathematics, he invited competent collaborators to initiate them to weaving, agriculture including growing silk-worms, and cottage industry. In 1880, Shashida passed his Entrance examination and was admitted at the Metropolitan Institution of Kolkata, haloed by the presence of Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar as one of its directors and of Rashtraguru Surendranath Banerjea and Khudiram Bose (not the martyr) as its faculty. Rashtraguru had instructed Yogendra Vidyabhushan to popularise the lives of Mazzini and Garibaldi and had a nationwide reputation as orator. Khudiram Bose was a disciple of the famous Young Bengal leader, Reverend Kalicharan Banerjee, and knew Keshub Chunder Sen intimately. There was an active physical education course in the college, supervised by Chandidas Ghosh. In no time Shashida caught the sparks of a nascent patriotic activism and, with Anandamohan Basu, formed the Students’ Association, which had contacts with Deshabandhu Chittaranjan Das, Pramathanath Mitra also known as Barrister P. Mitter and Brahmabandhab Upadhyay. He was a regular visitor to the gymnasium attached to the General Assembly's Institution (later Scottish Church College) and the Gohas’ club. For traditional self-defence, he met Swami Vivekananda who practised wrestling with the Gohas. The Swami’s philosophy of man-making consolidated Shashida’s own plans of action. Here, probably thanks to Vivekananda, he discovered Jatindranath Mukherjee, too, the future Bagha Jatin.
Malcolm McEachern
McEachern was born in Albury, New South Wales, the sixth of 13 children of Archibald Hector McEachern and his wife, Rebecca Mary.
Malcolm Adiseshiah
He lent a helping hand in obtaining assistance from UNESCO and French government for organizing the Third World Tamil Conference in Paris in 1969. As Acting Director-General of UNESCO, he inaugurated it, delivering his address in three languages, Tamil, English and French.
M. S. Narasimhan
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Malcolm Adiseshiah
He was instrumental in rendering such assistance to all member nations of UNESCO with special emphasis to Asian, African and South American nations.
Malcolm Adiseshiah
In 1991, Sylvain Lourie, Assistant Director General of UNESCO, wrote:
Malcolm Adiseshiah
The "Emerald Jubilee Malcolm S. Adiseshiah Award" consisting of a gold medallion, a certificate and a shield, is given by the State Resource Centre, Chennai, every year to a district Collector who had made significant contribution for the rehabilitation of child labour and for imparting vocational education to improve their lot. Adiseshiah was the first president of the centre (an autonomous body under the Union Ministry of Human Resource) at its inception in 1973, and held the post for a decade. Dr. Malcolm Adiseshiah Award by the Tamil Nadu Board of Continuing Education and State Resource Centre for Non-Formal Education is given to a person in recognition of his contribution to Adult Education at a function in commemoration of the World Science Day. Dr. Malcolm Adiseshiah Award of Honour is also given by them for outstanding community service.
Malcolm Adiseshiah
Adiseshiah married Helen Paranjothi, with whom he had a son and a daughter. The separation process with Helen Paranjothi started in 1946 and the annulment of the marriage came in 1956. Adiseshiah then married Elizabeth Pothen, a history professor who he met at the Madras Women’s Christian College.
Malcolm Adiseshiah
He was also a member of the Royal Economic Society.
Malcolm Adiseshiah
Though it was personally inconvenient for him because he had lost touch with the language during his long sojourn in Europe, he still would write articles in Tamil whenever requested to do so. At a function to commemorate his 83rd birthday on 18 April 1992 when the new office premises of the Tamil Nadu Board of Continuing Education was named after him, he gave a stirring speech in chaste Tamil which was well appreciated.
Malcolm H. Chisholm
Malcolm Harold Chisholm was born to Scottish parents on 15 October 1945 in Bombay, British India. Six months after his birth, Chisholm moved with his parents back to family's home of Inverness, Scotland. At the age of 3, his family moved again to southern England where he obtained his early education. He later went to Queen Mary College and received a B.Sc. in 1966 and a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry in 1969 while working under the direction of Donald C. Bradley.
After receiving his Ph.D., Chisholm when to the University of Western Ontario to work as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Howard Charles Clark from 1969 to 1972.
Malcolm Adiseshiah
Adiseshiah was responsible for the development of the Karachi Plan for Universal Primary Education for Asia, the Addis Ababa and Santiago plans for the African and Latin American educational development and the corresponding science plans for Asia, Africa and Latin America. He worked with David Owen, Executive Chairman of the Technical Assistance Board to convince donor countries, since the financing of the expanded programme rested on voluntary contributions made by them at pledging conferences. In the need of additional sources he established relations with the International Development Association (IDA), Inter-American Development Bank and other regional development banks. In 1962 UNESCO approached the World Bank, also known as International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) for medium trade credit for funding a project in Tunisia. The IBRD until then was concentrating on investments in physical capital. Adiseshiah contributed on the persuasion to shift IBRD’s focus exclusively from expansion of physical capital towards the development of human capital, especially extension of education. In 1964 he participated in negotiating the memorandum of understanding between International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and UNESCO. He introduced flexibility in utilizing multilateral aid. Adiseshiah used a substantial part of USSR contribution for technical assistance for establishing IIT, Mumbai. The expanded technical assistance programme was merged with the United Nations Special Fund to form the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) which was launched in 1966. He formulated in each country a programme of technical and financial assistance, which he started with a global outlay of $3 million per annum in 1950. When he retired from the organization, the outlay had increased to $300 million.
Malcolm Adiseshiah
In 1940, after obtaining his doctorate at the age of thirty, he joined Madras Christian College, Chennai, as its first professor and head of the economics department. He remained in there until 1946. Prof. K. N. Raj, founder of Centre for Developmental Studies, Tiruvananthapuram, and G. Jagathpathy, former Chief Secretary of the government of Madhya Pradesh were his students in the 1941-44 batch of BA Honours course. Raj recalled this experience:
Abdirizak Ibrahim Mohamed Attash
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Subramaniam Sathasivam
Datuk Seri Dr. S. Subramaniam s/o. K. V. Sathasivam (; born 1 April 1953) is a Malaysian politician. He was the ninth President of the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC), a major component party of Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition. He was the Minister of Health from May 2013 to May 2018; one of the two full Ministers representing the Malaysian Indian community in the Malaysian federal cabinet. Previously, he had served as the Minister of Human Resources from 2008 to 2013 and the Parliament Secretary of the same ministry from 2004 till 2008.
Audishu V Khayyath
He was born on October 15, 1827 in Mossul. He studied in the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith in Rome and was ordained priest in 1855. On 23 September 1860 he was ordained Bishop of Amadiyah, Iraq, by Patriarch Joseph Audo. He was the patriarchal vicar of Mossul from 1863 to 1870 and metropolitan of Amid from 1874 to 1894. He was appointed Patriarch of the Chaldean Church on October 28, 1894 and served till his death on November 6, 1899. He replaced Patriarch Eliya XIV [XIII] Abulyonan † and was followed by Yousef VI Emmanuel II Thomas †.
Malcolm Adiseshiah
He was a member of the Governing Body of Centre for Development Studies (CDS) since 1980 and was its Chairman for six years 1986-92. It was under his chairmanship that the Centre entered into an agreement with the United Nations Fund for Population Activities and the Government of India for conducting an international training programme in population and development.
Malcolm Sinclair, 20th Earl of Caithness
Malcolm Ian Sinclair, 20th Earl of Caithness, (born 3 November 1948) is a British Conservative politician and member of the House of Lords as one of the remaining hereditary peers. He is also 20th Lord Berriedale, 15th Baronet Sinclair, of Canisbay, Co. Caithness, Nova Scotia, and chief of Clan Sinclair. He is the Chief Executive of the Clan Sinclair Trust.
Christianity in Assam
Oliver Thomas Cutter was born in United States in 1811. He started his journey towards east in 1831 along with his wife Harriet Cutter. He first landed in Burma (Myanmar) and from there he crossed Patkai to reach Assam in 1836 along with Nathan Brown's family. He together with Browns started a printing press in Sadiya. They started to print books in Assamese, Khamti and Singfou language from there. They also started school and authored some text books for the schools. But due to Singfou rebellions, they were forced to leave Assam and go back to Jaipur. But they kept on publishing books from Jaipur. After few years, Cutter's family came back to Assam and this time settled down in Sibsagar. Miles Bronson came to Assam with friend Jacob Thomas in 1836. He first started his works in Sadiya, Jaipur and Naamsang. He started interacting with Naga tribes and first compiled 'East Naga' Thesaurus. According to historian Mccangie, no European after or before Bronson could get so close to Nagas. But he soon felt ill working with Nagas, so he finally came down to Nagaon via Sibsagar. In Assam, Bronson started working in both Christianism and local education. During the period from 1848 to 1851 and 1867 to 1871, he took vacation from his works and went back to New York. Miles Bronson was the main leader of the movement against government enforcing Bengali language as the official language in courts, school in Assam. In 1867, using Jaduram baruah's scripting, he published the first Assamese and English dictionary. The dictionary contained around 14 thousands words and published from Baptist Missionary Press, Sibsagar. This dictionary was another strong step in support of Assamese language. Bronson also started the translation of Bible to Assamese. Nidhiram, the first Assamese convert, was baptised by Bronson on June 13, 1841.
Khasi and Garo are notable ethnic groups with a large Christian population. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Himalayan States has an Assam diocese since 2003, which used to be the Assam Church. Among the large Bengali population of Assam, there are few Christians.
Malcolm Atkinson
He met his first wife Valerie Ross in Cambridge and they were married in 1967.
They left Cambridge to start the department of Computer Science at the new University of Lancaster and their first daughter, Kirsteen, was born there. Later they had two more daughters, Tamzyn and Janna. Valerie died in 1994. 
Malcolm is married to Kathy Humphry whom he first met in 1978 at the University of Edinburgh. Kathy Humphry was born in Liverpool in 1944. She attended the University of St Andrews and after graduation, Humphry worked for Standard Telephones and Cables as a telephone switching technician. Afterward, she moved to the USA to work on similar machinery at Blue Cross/Blue Shield. Humphry eventually moved back to Britain to work in the university system, first at the Open University and then Edinburgh University. At Edinburgh University, as a Computing Officer she was involved in using the university's own high-level language, Implementation Language (IMP), later Humphry was working at Xilinx.
Malcolm Adiseshiah
He was instrumental in the setting up of the Asian Social Science Research Council, New Delhi and was its first President. He was a member of the Central Advisory Board of Education, the Indian National Commission for Co-operation with UNESCO, the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) and the National Council of Teacher Education. The ICSSR requested him to undertake a review of its work and to suggest the lines along which it should develop. His meticulously compiled two volume report, one on retrospect and the other on prospect, which had been an influential guide in the development of social science of research in India at that period.
Malcolm Adiseshiah
He lent a helping hand for the launching of the World University Centre in Spur Tank Road in Chennai.
Malcolm Adiseshiah
After his retirement from UNESCO, until 1991, he had visited countries of Africa, Latin America and Asia at their invitation three times a year to advise them on their development plans.
Malcolm Adiseshiah
The speed with which he acted could be gauged from the fact that the General Conference of UNESCO at its session in November 1968 accepted the recommendation of the Second International Conference on Tamil Studies held at Madras on 3-10, January 1968 and authorized the Director General of UNESCO to assist in the creation of an International Institute of Tamil Studies at Madras. In 1970, his last year in UNESCO, he had the satisfaction of witnessing the setting up of the Institute at Madras, Tamil Nadu.
Malcolm Adiseshiah
UNESCO assisted in the setting up of National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), New Delhi: the establishment of first TV broadcasts in India; the reorganization of Films Division of India; the provision of twenty renowned Professors of engineering and science; the supply of $12 million worth of equipment to IITs of Bombay and Kharagpur; the expansion of aeronautical engineering in Madras Institute of Technology; and the provision of experts and equipment to Alagappa Chettiar College of Engineering and Technology in Madras (now Chennai), Tamil Nadu.
Aditya Bhat
Aditya Bhat (born on 30th October 1977, in Mumbai ) is an entrepreneur, a marketing consultant, a public speaker, a professor, and a creative content developer, who spent most of his life in the field of media/entertainment and marketing domains. 
He is best known for JioDhanDhanaDhan, the campaign which created the maximum top of mind recall amongst other 88 brands advertising around that time. He has also been the brain behind some of the most organically viral videos on the digital platform, which spoke about social issues such as Anti-Smoking with Sunny Leone" "and Alok Nath", "Swacch Bharat Abhiyaan with Mr. Amitabh Bacchan and Kangana Ranaut", "breast Cancer (in association with Facebook) and blood donation and portrayed it in a light hearted manner. Mr. Aditya Bhat has spent over 8 years in the Media and Entertainment Industry (5 years as a part of the Star TV marketing team and 15 months heading non fiction & events at 9X). He is the man behind Rakhi Ka Swayamwar."
Malcolm Adiseshiah
He brought out the Hindi and Tamil versions of UNESCO’s journal ‘Courier’.
Kamal Addararachchi
Kamal Addararachchi - කමල් අද්දරආරච්චි (born Addararachchige Gunendra Kamal on 5 February 1962) is an award-winning Sri Lankan film and teledrama actor, singer and presenter. He made his debut as an actor in Gamini Fonseka's 1981 film "Sagarayak Meda", whilst he was a still a student at school. Since the late 1970s, he has appeared in a variety of roles in many films and teledramas. 
Addararachchi, has acted in over 40 films, 20 teledramas and 6 stage plays, and won the Sarasaviya Best Actor Award for his role of Sobana in "Agnidahaya" in 2002.
Malcolm Adiseshiah
In January 1981, Adiseshiah was elected Chairman of the Governing Board of the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) for a five-year period. In 1986 he was re-elected for a second term for five years. In 1987, 1991 and 1992 he was the Chairman of the jury for the selection of the international literacy prize winners. In 1989 he delivered the Presidential Address at the World Literacy Day function in Paris.
Malcolm Adiseshiah
The General Conference of UNESCO in its fifteenth session authorized the publication of a work designed to clarify the basic concepts concerning the contribution of education, science and culture to development. In the course of the discussions about the resolution, reference was made to the many speeches of Adiseshiah on related themes delivered in Oxford, United Kingdom in 1961; Cambridge, UK and Tananarive, Madagascar in 1962; Madras, India in 1963; Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1964; Washington, DC, USA in 1968 and many others. He was requested to write a book based on the facts and ideas presented in those speeches About that book, U Thant, then Secretary-General of the United Nations, in his ‘Foreword’ writes:
Edasseri Govindan Nair
Edasseri Govindan Nair (; 23 December 1906 – 16 October 1974) was an Indian poet and playwright of Malayalam literature. Known as one of the major poets of Malayalam, Edasseri was a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry. He was also a recipient of Asan Smaraka Kavitha Puraskaram, which was awarded posthumously.
Sailesh Kumar Bandopadhyay
Sailesh Kumar Bandyopadhyay was born on 10 March 1926, at Chakradharpur, in the erstwhile Bengal, presently in the Indian state of Jharkhand. His father was an Indian Railways employee with moderate financial resources. The young Sailesh soon came under the influence of Mahatma Gandhi and, after passing matriculation in 1942, he joined Quit India Movement and was arrested twice by the British India police.
Malcolm Adiseshiah
Adiseshiah studied in Voorhees High School, where he obtained two double promotions. He completed his secondary school education at the age of thirteen to join Voorhees College for his ‘intermediate’ course (equivalent to +2 course now.) Then he shifted to Loyola College, Chennai for his BA (Honours), where Ramaswamy Venkataraman, the former President of India, was his classmate. After a six-year teaching interregnum at the St. Paul's Cathedral Mission College in Calcutta (now Kolkata), he proceeded to King's College, Cambridge for his MA (Banking) and then to the London School of Economics (1937–40) for pursuing his doctoral research with specialization in currency. Late Dr. R. N. Poduval, who served in FAO and then was Chairman of Centre for Research in Economic and Social Development, Chennai was two years his junior in LSE.
Jamie Maddison
James Benjamin Maddison (born 9 July 1988), formerly known as Jamie Bunchuk, is an English explorer, equestrian Long Rider (assoc.) and an editor of Sidetracked Magazine. He is best known for his exploration of the Central Asia region. Maddison's first expedition was to the Djangart Valley of the Tian Shan mountains in eastern Kyrgyzstan. Since then, he has mounted numerous expeditions including: spending one month living and working with Kirghiz hunters in South East Tajikistan (as well as small archaeological discoveries from the X-XI C. Sak city of Bazar Dara), a 100 mile, multi-day, camel supported run across the Red Sands Desert in Uzbekistan, chronicling the lives of Kazakh eagle hunters in Western Mongolia and Winter packrafting down the Khovd River, Mongolia (temperatures down to -20 °C) in retrofitted and homemade packrafts.
Malcolm Stevenson
Sir Malcolm Stevenson KCMG (15 March 1878 – 27 November 1927) was a British colonial administrator. He served as the Governor of Cyprus and later as the Governor of the Seychelles.
Malcolm Mitchell-Thomson, 3rd Baron Selsdon
Malcolm McEacharn Mitchell-Thomson, 3rd Baron Selsdon (born 27 October 1937) is a British peer, banker and businessman. He is one of the ninety hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999, sitting as a Conservative.
Malcolm Knowles
Malcolm Shepherd Knowles (August 24, 1913 – November 27, 1997) was an American adult educator, famous for the adoption of the theory of andragogy—initially a term coined by the German teacher Alexander Kapp. Knowles is credited with being a fundamental influence in the development of the Humanist Learning Theory and the use of learner constructed contracts or plans to guide learning experiences.
History of Dasam Granth
Among several valuable works John Malcolm completed Sketch of Sikhs in 1812 and mentioned about Dasam Granth which converted many to Sikhism to fight against thranny. The approach of Malcolm is biased as he attributes Devi worship episode to Guru Gobind Singh to distort Sikh Baptism/Khandey Di Pahul and Creation of Khalsa. Malcolm was acquainted with Sikhism through Nirmala priests and Udasis who were educated in Vedantic institutions and were interested in mythic identification of the life history of the Sikh Gurus. Following is quote from his book: 
"Guru Govind Singh, in the Vichitra Natac, a work written by himself, and inserted in the Dasania Padshah ka Granth, traces the descent of the Cshatriya tribe of Sondi, to which he belongs, from a race of Hindu head, and throw it into the fire, he would he resus- citated to the enjoyment of the greatest glory. The Guru excused himself from trying this experiment, declaring that he was content that his descendants should enjoy the fruits of that tree which he had planted."
Asaduddin Owaisi
Owaisi was born on 13 May 1969 to Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi and Najmunnisa Begum. He comes from a political family of Hyderabad. His grandfather Abdul Wahed Owaisi relaunched the political party Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen as All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen 18 September 1957. He also succeeded Qasim Razvi as the party president after he was released from prison. His father Sultan Salahuddin was elected to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly in 1962. He was elected to the Indian Parliament from the Hyderabad constituency for the first time in 1984 and continued winning the elections till 2004, when he stepped down in favour of Asaduddin. He died in 2008. His brother Akbaruddin Owaisi is a Member of Telangana Legislative Assembly and heads the party in it. His youngest brother Burhanuddin Owaisi is the editor of "Etemaad". He did his graduation in Bachelor of Arts from Osmania University. He is a barrister by profession and studied at Lincoln's Inn of London.
Malcolm Atkinson
Professor Malcolm Phillip Atkinson (born 13 October 1943, Cornwall, UK) is a Professor of e-Science, in the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics. He is known for his work in the areas of object-oriented databases, database systems, software engineering and e-Science and was the UK's first e-Science Envoy (2006–2011) and the Director of the e-Science Institute and National e-Science Centre, University of Edinburgh.
Malcolm Adiseshiah
In September 1970 Adiseshiah and his wife Elizabeth registered in Paris a trust fund for starting Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS hereafter). MIDS was conceived to undertake studies and research on developmental issues on the economy, polity and society with special reference to Tamil Nadu state. MIDS started functioning from January 1971 in one of their properties in Gandhinagar, Adyar, a Chennai suburb. Adiseshiah was its first Director. Adiseshiah started publishing the publishing of ‘Bulletin – Madras Development Seminar Series’ in February 1971, and wrote its editorials every month from Feb. 1971 covering international, national and Tamil Nadu issues, until his death. ‘This surely’ wrote, Prof.S. Subramanian, in the prolegomena of the special issue of the Bulletin bought out after his demise, ‘is the stuff of which archives are made’10
Malcolm Innes of Edingight
He is the son of Sir Thomas Innes of Learney (Lord Lyon from 1945–69) and Lady Lucy Buchan, daughter of Norman Macleod Sinclair, 18th Earl of Caithness. he was educated at Edinburgh Academy and at the University of Edinburgh where he studied law.
Midnapore
Khudiram Bose was born in the Habibpur in 1889 and studied at Midnapore Collegiate School up to the eight standard. He was first caught by a policeman for distributing seditious leaflets in Midnapore in 1906. He was an anarchist and protested against the moderate policies of Surendranath Banerjea. Khudiram was sentenced to death for a failed attempt to kill Magistrate Kingsford. Satyendranath was executed on 21 November 1908. Noted freedom fighter and Bengal Province Congress Committee President Birendranath Sasmal practised at the Midnapore High Court.
Malcolm Adiseshiah
In later life, after his retirement from UNESCO, Adiseshiah recalled his training and research;
Malcolm Adiseshiah
His publications in 1940s included books on banking, rural development and agricultural transformation. He was engaged, with his fellow economists in the Madras University, in work on planning the future industrialization of India and Madras State.
Malcolm Adiseshiah
As UNESCO official, he rendered assistance to Indian projects. The publication of UNESCO Art Album on Ajantha was mainly due to his yeomen efforts and was due to his vision that the heritage sites of humankind must be preserved for all posterity.
Sathasivian Cooper
Sathasivian ["Saths"] Cooper (born 11 December 1950) is a clinical psychologist in South Africa who was born in Durban of Indian-South African background. He began to identify with the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) and was arrested as a student in 1976 for organizing anti-Apartheid rallies. During this time Saths spent nine years banned, house arrested and jailed, including over five years in Robben Island where he shared a cell block with Nelson Mandela.
Sudhamoy Pramanick
Sudhamoy Pramanick (September 1884 – October 1974) ( ) was a Bengali advocate from Shantipur. He was the lifetime secretary of the "Tili Samaj", a societal benefit organization. In his time he was one of the fortunate Presidencians - a year senior to Rajendra Prasad, the first President of India. He was a social activist - member of the Indian National Congress and involved with the Satyagraha movement to campaign for Indian independence.
Malcolm Stedman
Malcolm Stedman (born 28 April 1948) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batmsan who played for Bedfordshire. He was born in West Ham, Essex.
Malcolm Adiseshiah
Adiseshiah loved Tamil, but was no chauvinist. He was instrumental in obtaining UNESCO assistance to the programmes of translation of Tamil classics. "The Ayodhya canto of the Ramayana as told by Kamban" translated from the Tamil by C. Rajagopalachari (Rajaji) was published in 1961 under UNESCO-sponsored programmes and publications. "The Interior landscape: love poems from a classical Tamil anthology" translated by A.K. Ramanujan was published in 1967 under the same programme.
Malcolm Adiseshiah
Adiseshiah was truly a many splendid personality who toiled tirelessly till his last breath to build a modern India within a new international order.
Malcolm Adiseshiah
He encouraged publication of research articles in Tamil. MIDS brought out, and still brings out, Tamil translations and Tamil books.
Black nationalism
Elijah Muhammad was famously known as the successor of Wallace Fard, the founder of the Nation of Islam. He was born in Georgia on October 7, 1897. He led the group from 1934 to 1975, being very well recognized as one of the mentors to other famous leaders such as Malcolm X. He lived until February 25, 1975, in Chicago, and the leadership of the organization passed to his son.
Malcolm Adiseshiah
Elizabeth Adiseshiah died in 1986 leaving all her property to her husband. In Dr. Adiseshiah’s will, he had bequeathed his valuable residential property to MIDS, and his remaining wealth for setting up of Malcolm and Elizabeth Adiseshiah Trust (MEAT) for conducting programmes in the broad area of economics – teaching and research, both fundamental and applied.
Ahmadiyya in the United States
Over the late 20th century, the Ahmadiyya influence on African American Islam subsided to a degree. The Community did not draw as many followers as it did in its early history. However, Ahmadi Muslims continued to be an influential force, educating numerous African Americans that passed through its ranks. Often working behind the scenes, the Community had a profound influence in the African American-Isam relations including the early development of the Nation of Islam, the Moorish Science Temple and American Sunni Islam. In particular, the Community is said to have influenced Elijah Muhammad, the leader of the Nation of Islam, and his son, Warith Deen Mohammed, who became a Sunni Muslim.
While Malcolm X was in Norfolk Prison Colony, he was visited by an Ahmadi missionary, Abdul Hameed; pseudo-named as Omar Khalil in literature. Hameed later sent him a book of Islamic prayers in Arabic which Malcolm did memorize phonetically. Whilst a member of Nation of Islam in prison, he was impressed by the Ahmadi teachings. After his release in 1952, Malcolm repeatedly attempted to incorporate the Nation of Islam into a more traditional form of Islam. It has been suggested that this may have been the reason why he once identified himself as an "Asiatic." He later stated that "Allah is One God, not of one particular people or race, but of All the Worlds, thus forming All Peoples into One Universal Brotherhood." He would repeat the notion of a universal and multi-racial faith, which according to Louis DeCaro can genealogically be seen descending from the influence of the Ahmadiyya movement.
Radha Mohan Gadanayak
Gadanayak was born in August 1911 in Kalandapal, a small village in the periphery of Angul town in the Indian state of Odisha, to Mahadeva Gadnayak and Golakamani Devi. He was involved with the Indian freedom struggle from an early age and became associated with the Satyagraha movement of Mahatma Gandhi at the age of 23. As a poet, he was more inclined to the genre of ballads and composed many ballads on various subjects and people such as Kalidasa and Mohandas Gandhi. His anthology, "Surya O Andhakar" won him the Sahitya Akademi Award for Odia literature in 1975. He also translated Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam into Odia language. "Gopabandhu racanābaḷī", "Gaḍanāẏaka granthābaḷī", "Kāḷidāsa", "Gāndhī gāthā", "Kāḷindīcaraṇa parikramā", "Hīrākhaṇḍara gāthā", "Gopabaṅdhu racanābaḷī", "Abācīra tārā" and "Paśupakshīra kābya" are some of his other notable works.
Malcolm Kenyatta
Malcolm Kenyatta (born July 30, 1990) is a community activist and African-American politician from North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania who currently serves as a State Representative for the 181st District in the Pennsylvania General Assembly.
Kenyatta was born to the late Kelly Kenyatta, a nurse and home healthcare aide, and the late Malcolm J. Kenyatta, a social worker, at Temple University Hospital in North Central Philadelphia. His parents were active members of the community, notably for fostering and adopting children in the local neighborhood, including his three siblings, Cheree, Fatima, and Bilalh. As a family, they formed a gospel mime dance group called "Chosen Mime Troop" at their home church, Mount Zion BBNDC of Philadelphia, a non-denominational church. In 1997, they went on to win the famed Amateur Night at the Apollo Theatre in New York City in an untelevised show.