Lurker Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 Ah yes there are cricketers and Bollywood stars and politicians etc. But who are the off-beat Indians that impress woman like no-one else and inspire guys like no other? Here are a few nominees from my side. Who are yours? In certain circle Siddhartha Basu would be perhaps more celebrated than an Amitabh or Sachin. The anchor of Quiz Time, the original quiz competition on DD, suave, smart, charming personality and a fantastic knowledge. A man who has it all..and then some. Of all the news programme on Indian telly The World This Week has to rank at the top. Thanks in large measure to Prannoy Roy though Vinod Dua might have something to say about that. A man who had that infectious aura of intelligence combined with a tad of aloofness but somehow so much still there. He is the kind of person you may not crack a joke with but would be greatly grateful if he came to your party. Creator of one of the greatest Hindi movies - Masoom - Shekhar Kapur has to rank at the very top of any such list. Smart, articulate with great fashion sense. An acclaimed director who is also more than capable of writing poems of the measure of there are so many of us waiting for Krishna to push us over the edge (a critique of Arjuna). There are three such men. Who are your nominations? xxx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kabira Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 Re: Men of substance... Harsha Bhogle... :hic: :hic: :hic: :hic: Baba Ramdev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurker Posted February 6, 2007 Author Share Posted February 6, 2007 Re: Men of substance... Harsha Bhogle... Baba Ramdev There you go Kabira. I like Harsha Bhogle too. Not too sure about Baba Ramdev though. xxx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kabira Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 Re: Men of substance... Baba Ramdev has singlehandedly created wave of yoga all over the country...Everyone knows bit about yoga...its not western thing any more.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kabira Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 Re: Men of substance... I would include Rajat Sharma. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dhondy Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 Re: Men of substance... I met Siddharth Basu and Vandana Mohan when I was on a Quiz show they were compering. Siddharth is really smart and articulate, Vandana was lovely. We came 3rd BTW. Still was worth 500 rupees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dada_rocks Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 Re: Men of substance... Baba ramdev :wtg: :wtg: Not so sure about Harsha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dada_rocks Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 Re: Men of substance... Poltician Section: Lal Bahadur Shastri Arun Shourrie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dada_rocks Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 Re: Men of substance... Harsha Bhogle... Baba Ramdev There you go Kabira. I like Harsha Bhogle too. Not too sure about Baba Ramdev though. xxx any specific reason other than him being in bhagwa robe.. just curious :chin: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dhondy Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 Re: Men of substance... My favourite Indian? KPS Gill, Chief of Punjab Police in the early 90s. The man's iron will and uncompromising courage broke the back of terrorism in Punjab. It is fair to say that Sikh insurgency, in the wake of Operation Bluestar, represented the greatest threat to India's national security in its history. It's not as if India hadn't had to contend with dissent before. Two of those groups, the Naxals in Bengal and Kerala in the 70s, and the tribesmen in Assam in the 80s and 90s, were particularly fierce and persevering. But they were not a patch on the Punjabis. Not even close. The raid of the golden temple started a chain of events that is quite unparalleled in India's chronicles. Not only did Indira pay with her life, it alienated the common Sikh on the streets and Gudwaras. Shocking, because the Sikhs had always been India's strength. They counted themselves among her greatest patriots and had a disproportionately high representation in the armed forces. Operation Bluestar changed all that. The common man in Punjab felt violated, and the anger and resentment generated a movement that left the country stricken with its speed and utter, unbridled violence. There was a time in the early 1990s when the judiciary in Punjab was completely paralysed with fear. Multiple murderers would walk into the home of high court judges and get bail orders signed with complete impunity. It was mayhem. Terror ruled. Enter KPS Gill. Fresh from an assignment in Assam, he took over from the redoubtable Julio Ribeiro, who had started the process of claiming back the initiative from the terrorists with the blessings of Chief Minister Beant Singh, although the latter was another who had to pay for his courage with his life. But Gill took matters to another plane. He recognized pretty early that if you wanted to best the terrorists, you had to use their own methods, Strict adherence to the rule of law was not going to work. He gave his men carte blanche to go out and nail the perpetrators. Nobody was to be spared, no means considered too illicit. The terrorists were hounded like dogs. Killed in encounters in Amritsar and Taran Taran, pursued across the length and breadth of India into the hotel rooms of Calcutta and shot in their beds, their money flow from the Khalistan sympathizers in Pakistan and UK cut off...it was a single minded campaign that struck terror into the hearts of men who had practiced it themselves with impunity for the best part of a decade. Gill stopped them in their tracks and restored India's peace. Of course, he has his faults. The biggest blot on his career was the police execution of human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra, who was picked up from his home, shot dead, and his body dumped in a canal because he was thought to be a terrorist sympathizer. Later, Gill was accused of having fondled senior IAS officer Rupan Deol Bajaj, and convicted of that offence. He also presided over the shambles that Indian hockey has become. But nothing can take away from what he achieved in Punjab. He stood tall in the face of terrorism and showed its practitioners that he was meaner, stronger and braver than them. They couldn't stare the man down. For that feat alone, KPS Gill remains my favourite Indian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birbal2 Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 Re: Men of substance... Jignesh Shah... Created a commodity market out of scratch with daily volumes of Rs. 500 BILLION.. in just under 10 years... he is at least as brilliant as Narayan Murthy and Co... http://www.rediff.com/cms/print.jsp?docpath=/money/2005/oct/13spec.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Predator_05 Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 Re: Men of substance... My favourite Indian? KPS Gill, Chief of Punjab Police in the early 90s. The man's iron will and uncompromising courage broke the back of terrorism in Punjab. Too bad he took Indian hockey down the tubes though ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dada_rocks Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 Re: Men of substance... My favourite Indian? KPS Gill, Chief of Punjab Police in the early 90s. The man's iron will and uncompromising courage broke the back of terrorism in Punjab. It is fair to say that Sikh insurgency, in the wake of Operation Bluestar, represented the greatest threat to India's national security in its history. It's not as if India hadn't had to contend with dissent before. Two of those groups, the Naxals in Bengal and Kerala in the 70s, and the tribesmen in Assam in the 80s and 90s, were particularly fierce and persevering. But they were not a patch on the Punjabis. Not even close. The raid of the golden temple started a chain of events that is quite unparalleled in India's chronicles. Not only did Indira pay with her life, it alienated the common Sikh on the streets and Gudwaras. Shocking, because the Sikhs had always been India's strength. They counted themselves among her greatest patriots and had a disproportionately high representation in the armed forces. Operation Bluestar changed all that. The common man in Punjab felt violated, and the anger and resentment generated a movement that left the country stricken with its speed and utter, unbridled violence. There was a time in the early 1990s when the judiciary in Punjab was completely paralysed with fear. Multiple murderers would walk into the home of high court judges and get bail orders signed with complete impunity. It was mayhem. Terror ruled. Enter KPS Gill. Fresh from an assignment in Assam, he took over from the redoubtable Julio Ribeiro, who had started the process of claiming back the initiative from the terrorists with the blessings of Chief Minister Beant Singh, although the latter was another who had to pay for his courage with his life. But Gill took matters to another plane. He recognized pretty early that if you wanted to best the terrorists, you had to use their own methods, Strict adherence to the rule of law was not going to work. He gave his men carte blanche to go out and nail the perpetrators. Nobody was to be spared, no means considered too illicit. The terrorists were hounded like dogs. Killed in encounters in Amritsar and Taran Taran, pursued across the length and breadth of India into the hotel rooms of Calcutta and shot in their beds, their money flow from the Khalistan sympathizers in Pakistan and UK cut off...it was a single minded campaign that struck terror into the hearts of men who had practiced it themselves with impunity for the best part of a decade. Gill stopped them in their tracks and restored India's peace. Of course, he has his faults. The biggest blot on his career was the police execution of human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra, who was picked up from his home, shot dead, and his body dumped in a canal because he was thought to be a terrorist sympathizer. Later, Gill was accused of having fondled senior IAS officer Rupan Deol Bajaj, and convicted of that offence. He also presided over the shambles that Indian hockey has become. But nothing can take away from what he achieved in Punjab. He stood tall in the face of terrorism and showed its practitioners that he was meaner, stronger and braver than them. They couldn't stare the man down. For that feat alone, KPS Gill remains my favourite Indian. :wtg: i wanted to say this but thought i will not risk yet another round of diatribe from certain quarter...... u brother have just made urself little less palatable to some.. mubarak ho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dada_rocks Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 Re: Men of substance... Jignesh Shah... Created a commodity market out of scratch with daily volumes of Rs. 500 BILLION.. in just under 10 years... he is at least as brilliant as Narayan Murthy and Co... http://www.rediff.com/cms/print.jsp?docpath=/money/2005/oct/13spec.htm I would say more sturdy in business sense han Murthy, because Murthy entered in acuum and has hardly any competetion from any established software company but this guuy was up against Bombay stock Exchange from word go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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