Gwalior Plus

Jyotiraditya Scindia was born to Madhavrao Scindia and Madhavi Raje Scindia. He was born on January 1st, 1971 in Mumbai. He did his schooling from the prestigious Doon School in India and then went off to do his graduation in United States in Harvard University and MBA from the Stanford University. At present, Jyotiraditya is the member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India representing the political party, Indian National Congress. He is also the Maharaja of the princely state of Gwalior and a scion of the Scindia royal family.

He was all of 6 years old when Amjad Ali Khan gave his first recital of   Sarod . It was the beginning of yet another glorious chapter in the history of Indian classical music. Taught by his father  Haafiz Ali Khan  Amjad Ali Khan was born to the illustrious Bangash lineage rooted in the Senia Bangash School of music. Today he shoulders the sixth generation of inheritance in this legendary lineage. After his debut, the career graph of this musical legend took the speed of light, and on its way the Indian classical music scene was witness to regular and scintillating bursts of Raga supernovas. Thus, the world saw the Sarod being given a new and yet timeless interpretation by Amjad Ali Khan. Khan is one of the few maestros who consider his audience to be the soul of his motivation. As he once said,  "There is no essential difference between classical and popular music. Music is music. I want to communicate with the listener who finds Indian classical music re...

Amitabh Mitra is a Medical Doctor in a busy hospital in East London, South Africa. A widely published poet in the web and print, Amitabh has been hailed as one of the most popular South African poet writing in English today by the Skyline Literary Review, New York. Check out his site http://www.amitabhmitra.com Amitabh, now settled in South Africa, uses his experience of social interaction and cultural impact from countries like India, Bhutan and Zimbabwe where he worked under varying conditions, in his art and poetry. A powerful voice dispersing a reverie of time and heritage, his love poems with a backdrop of feudal Gwalior and Delhi take you on a sentimental journey to old family homes, forts, palaces and places where he grew up. His unique style of fusing words into almost lyrical dream like images, exploring muted corners of life taken over a suddenrushhourtime, Amitabh brings forth poetry that seems to peep from behind veils and shadows, waylaid in a mind state in...

  Acknowledged as the scion of the Gwalior musical gharana, Meeta Pandit has emerged as a shining star in the world of classical music. Meeta is grand-daughter and disciple o f Padma Bhushan Pt Krishna Rao Shankar Pandit , the doyen of Northern Indian Classical music in the 20th century, and the daughter and disciple of legendary Pt L K Pandit. Meeta is the sixth of the unbroken Pandit line and has the unique distinction of being the first woman musician in the family. Her melodious and robust voice coupled with intricate handling of ragas has won her critical acclaim, and a following of music lovers. HER VOICE Meeta's voice is unique-deep, rich and penetrating with tremendous power, stretching over an amazingly wide range of over 3 octaves. The rendering of traditional, but increasingly rare, Tappa is one of the sublime offerings in her concerts. Besides the styles of Khayal and Tappa, Meeta is equally adept with genres of Tarana, Bhajan, Thumri, Sufi, as well as cross cultu...

Worked at University of Illinois at Chicago and at University of California, Davis, U.S.A. during 1986-87, Marie Curie Fellow of European Union in 1994,1996 and worked at Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK, DAAD Fellow in Bonn University, Germany in 1997 and 1998, UNDP Fellow at Biological Research Centre, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, (1978-1979) and 1982 and WHO Fellow at the Institute of Microbiology, Czechoslovakia Academy of Sciences, Praha, Czecholovakia in 1983. He has served as Professor of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Barkatullah University, Bhopal (1985 - 2001), Vice-Chancellor Jiwaji University, Gwalior (1994 to 1996), Dean, Academic, Planning and Development, Bundelkhand University, JHANSI, (U.P.) June 2004 to July 2005. Director, Madhav Institute of Technology and Science, Gwalior, (2001 - June 2004). Since 2007, Professor Bisen is an Honorary Professor of Biotechnology at Jiwaji University, Gwalior, India. Presently, Professor Prakash Singh Bisen is the Chai...

Birth name: Atal Bihari Vajpayee He was born on 25th December 1924 in Gwalior State, British India. The daughter whom he has adopted from Mrs. & Mr. B. N. Kaul are Nandita and Namita. Nandita is a doctor in the U.S. and she is married to Ashok Nanda a software engineer and Namita is married to Ranjan Bhattacharya and lives in Delhi. Biography and Career: Atal Bihari Vajpayee was born on December 25, 1924 in Gwalior State, British India. He is an Indian Statesman. Atal Bihari Vajpayee has done his masters degree in political science from the Victoria College which is now known as Laxmibai College and DAV College, Kanpur. He is a bachelor and has adopted daughters from Mrs. & Mr. B.N. Kaul. He first joined politics in 1942 when he was arrested during the Quit India mov ement. He then became close to Syama Prasad Mookerjee, the leader of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS). He was the side of Syama when he went on fast till his death in Kashmir in 1953. The Janata government did not la...