Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi, who passed away on 8
February 1971, was an Indian independence movement activist, politician, writer
and educationist from Gujarat state. A lawyer by profession, he later turned to
author and politician. He is a well-known name in Gujarati literature. He founded
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, an educational trust, in 1938.
Charles Dickens, born on 7
February 1812, was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of
the Victorian era. His many volumes include such works as A Christmas Carol,
David Copperfield, Bleak House, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, and
Our Mutual Friend.
Dickens
enjoyed a wider popularity during his lifetime than had any previous author.
Much in his work could appeal to the simple and the sophisticated, to the poor
and to the queen, and technological developments as well as the qualities of
his work enabled his fame to spread worldwide very quickly. His long career saw
fluctuations in the reception and sales of individual novels, but none of them
was negligible or uncharacteristic or disregarded, and, though he is now
admired for aspects and phases of his work that were given less weight by his
contemporaries, his popularity has never ceased. The most abundantly comic of
English authors, he was much more than a great entertainer. The range,
compassion, and intelligence of his apprehension of his society and its
shortcomings enriched his novels and made him both one of the great forces in
19th-century literature and an influential spokesman of the conscience of
his age.
Sayajirao Gaekwad III, who passed away on 6 February
1939, was the Maharaja of Baroda State from 1875 to 1939, and is notably
remembered for reforming much of his state during his rule. He belonged to the
royal Gaekwad dynasty of the Marathas which ruled parts of present-day Gujarat.
Bertrand Russell, who
passed away on 2 February 1970, was a British philosopher, logician,
mathematician, historian, writer, essayist, social critic, political activist,
and Nobel laureate.
He was the figure in the analytic movement in
Anglo-American philosophy, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. Russell’s
contributions to logic, epistemology, and the philosophy of mathematics
established him as one of the foremost philosophers of the 20th century. To the
general public, however, he was best known as a campaigner for peace and as a
popular writer on social, political, and moral subjects. During a long, productive, and
often turbulent life, he published more than 70 books and about 2,000 articles,
married four times, became involved in innumerable public controversies, and
was honoured and reviled in almost equal measure throughout the world.
Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi, who passed away on 8 February 1971, was an Indian independence movement activist, politician, writer and e...
