11 April - Day in History of India and Importance

1964 - Communist Party of India splits into two CPI and CPI(M)
1999 - Agni 2 with range of 2000 km launched.
2000 - Ms. Jhumpa Lahiri won Pulitzer Prize.

11 April Birthdays - Great Indians

Kasturba Gandhi

Kasturba Gandhi (1869-1944)

Kasturbai was born in 1869 at Porbandar in Gujarat. Her father was a well-to-do businessman.

Her public life began after she joined her husband, Mohandas Gandhi in South Africa in 1897. From 1904-14, she was the heart and soul of the 'Phoenix Settlement' and from Kasturbai she became Kasturba-mother to the inmates, a role she continued at Kochnab, Sabarmati, and Sevagram Ashrams in India.

On 22 February 1944 on Mahashivratri Day she breathed her last on the lap of her beloved husband.

http://rrtd.nic.in/kasturbagandhi.html

Jaimini Roy

Painter
Birth Date: 11 April 1887

He was honoured with the State award of Padma Bhushan in 1955.

http://www.firstpost.com/living/jamini-roy-remembering-the-artists-six-best-works-on-his-130th-birth-anniversary-3378558.html

Virtual galleries
http://www.ngmaindia.gov.in/sh-jamini-roy.asp

http://www.culturalindia.net/indian-art/painters/jamini-roy.html

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/education/story/jamini-roy/1/925944.html

Ramnath Krishnan, 1937

Tennis Player

Ramnath Krishnan, was born On 11-April-1937 at  Boothapandi Village, Nagercoil, India . Ramanathan Krishnan was among the world's leading tennis players in the 1950s and 1960s. He was twice a semifinalist at Wimbledon in 1960 and 1961.

Rohini Hattangadi

Date Of Birth: 11 April 1955

Birth Place: Delhi, India

Rohini
She was born as Rohini Oak on Apr 11, 1955 in Delhi. After ending her schooling from Renuka Swaroop Memorial Girls High School, Pune in 1971 Rohini inscribed her name in National School of Drama (NSD),

Rohini married Jayadev Hattangadi who was her classmate in National School of Drama.

Along with husband Jayadev, Rohini began her own Marathi theater group named Awishkar. For her performance in a maneuver called Changuna, she received the Best Actress Award during the Maharashtra State Drama Festival.

In 1978 she made her movie debut with Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan by Saeed Akhtar Mirza. Then she acted in movies like Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Ata Hai (1980) and Naseeruddin Shah and Smita Patil starring Chakra (1981).

She acted as Kasturba Gandhi in film Gandhi made by Attenborough

Smt. Botcha Lakshmi Jhansi

2009 Lok Sabha Member

Date of Birth 11 Apr 1964
Birth Place Rajamundry, Andhra Pradesh

Educational Qualifications M.A. (Philosophy), Ph.D., B.L.(C.L)
Positions Held

2001-2006 Chairperson, Zilla Parishad, Vizianagaram
2001 Member (Nominated), Pradesh Congress Committee, Andhra Pradesh
2005 Member (Nominated), All India Congress Committee
Dec. 2006 Elected to 14th Lok Sabha in bye-election
2 Jan. 2007 Member, Standing Committee on Urban Development
Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers
Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Steel
7 Aug. 2007 Member, Committee on Absence of Members from the sitting of the House
2009 Re-elected to 15th Lok Sabha (2nd term)
20 Jul. 2009 Member, Committee on Official Language, Drafting and Evidence Sub-Commitee
31 Aug. 2009 Member, Committee on Railways
Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Women and Child Development
22 Feb. 2010 Executive Member, Indian Parliamentary Group
10 Mar. 2010 Member, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) - Working Group on Specific Needs of Specific Category of Workers
26 Mar. 2010 Member, State Level Vigilance Monitoring Committee
10 Apr. 2010 Chairman, MGNREGA Sub-Committee, Working Group on Specific Needs of Specific Category
21 Jul. 2010 Chairman, India-Azerbaijan Parliamentary Friendship Group
3 Aug. 2010 Member, India-Finland Parliamentary Friendship Group

http://www.archive.india.gov.in/govt/loksabhampbiodata.php?mpcode=4218

http://www.indianage.com/0411.html

http://hist33.blogspot.    in/  -Refer forevents

9 april 2017, 27.3.2015