Marathi Hall of Fame: 1. Sunil Gavaskar 2. Sachin Tendulkar 3. Dr. Anil Kakodkar -Chairman of BARC 4. Achyut Godbole-Every IT person knows 5. Kiran Karnik -ex chairman of NASSCOM 6. Madhuri Dixit 7. Dadasaheb Phalke-Father of indian cinema 8. Lata Mangeshkar 9. Bapu Nadkarni 10. Eknath Solkar 11.Rahul Dravid - Marathi but settled in Karnataka, cricketing batsman former Indian captain, known as "The Wall" to Cricket world 12. C. D. Deshmukh - Third Governor of Reserve Bank of India 13. Dr Narendra Jadhav - a principal advisor to the RBI and a former advisor to the executive director at the IMF 14. Vijay Kelkar - Advisor to Minister of Finance 15. Arunkumar Vaidya - Chief of Army Staff from 83 through 86 16.Dr. Jayant Narlikar - Prominent Astrophysicist His work on conformal gravity theory with Sir Fred Hoyle, called Hoyle-Narlikar theory, demonstrated a synthesis can be achieved between Albert Einstein%u2019s theory of relativity and Mach's principle. 17. Dr.Ambedkar 18.Dr. Vijay P. Bhatkar - Founder and Former Executive Director of the Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), member of the Scientific Advisory Committee to the Cabinet of the Indian government and recipient of the prestigious Padma Shri award. Instrumental in developing India's first supercomputer, the Param10,000 19. Dr. Pandurang Vaman Kane - Sanskrit scholar. He served as the Vice-Chancellor of Bombay University. Recipient of Bharat Ratna 1963 20. Gopal Krishna Gok
RE:Marathis Rock-proud to be marathi
by Girish on Feb 08, 2008 11:25 PM Permalink
21.Lokmanya Tilak Great freedom fighter 22.Yashwantrao Chavan - First Chief Minister, Maharashtra,Former Deputy Prime Minister of India 23. Nanasaheb Kunte first speaker of LokSabha/Senate of Pt. Nehru 24. Baba Amte - Activist Worked for people suffering from Lepracy. Awarded Padma Vibhushan in 1986
The list is endless....marathis rock in every walks of life....still they are not respected by poor rest indians...bcoz of talent bostered by marathis british rulers opened first technical school in india in mumbai...bcoz of marathis hardwork and dedication mumbai has reached to this height.....bhaiyyas shld learn how to improve their cities from marathis "ghatis"....
RE:Marathis Rock-proud to be marathi
by on on Feb 08, 2008 11:51 PM Permalink
one minor correction, girish. the first speaker of lok sabha was gv mavalankar. but of course he too was marathi
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by Girish on Feb 08, 2008 11:37 PM Permalink
Poor ajay, pity on your ignorance and lack of knowledge....this is indian history and not maharashtrian history...every indian shld know it....
RE:Marathis Rock-proud to be marathi
by Girish on Feb 08, 2008 11:41 PM Permalink
Literacy is a powerful tool...u shld have it Tarun...better late than never!!!
