Sunday 21 August 2011

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890 - January 20, 1988) (Pashto: خان عبدالغفار خان, Hindi: ख़ान अब्दुल ग़फ़्फ़ार ख़ान) was a Pashtun political and spiritual leader known for his nonviolent opposition to British rule in India. A peaceful life, a devout Muslim and a close friend of Mohandas Gandhi, who was also known as Badshah Khan (also Bacha Khan, Pashto:. The "King Khan") and Sarhaddi Gandhi (Urdu, Hindi lit "Frontier. Gandhi").

It was initially encouraged by her family to join the British Indian army, but the treatment of a British Raj in the sense of a native insulted, and a family decision for him to study in England after it was mother's intervention.

To have witnessed the repeated failure of the revolt against the British Raj, he decided to social activism and reform would be more beneficial for the Pashtuns. This eventually led to the formation of Khudai Khidmatgars movement (servants of God). The success of the movement triggered a severe proceed against him and his disciples, and he was sent into exile. It was at this point in the 1920s, he formed an alliance with Gandhi and the Indian National Congress. This alliance lasted until the 1947 partition of India.

Ghaffar Khan strongly opposed the demand of the Muslim League for the partition of the Indian National Congress India.When accepted the partition plan, he said, "You have thrown to the wolves."

After the partition, Ghaffar Khan was arrested in Pakistan's government is often in part because of its unique Indian and opposed the authoritarian government's moves. She spent most of 1960 and 1970, in prison or in exile.

In 1985 he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1987, he became the first person who does not have Indian citizenship can be granted, Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honor. After his death in 1988, was buried in Jalalabad, in spite of heavy fighting, the war in Afghanistan, both sides declared a cease-fire for his burial.

Fatima Ali Jinnah

Fatima Ali Jinnah
Fatima Jinnah (Urdu: فاطمہ جناح, July 31, 1893 - July 9, 1967) was the youngest sister of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan and an active political figure in the movement for independence from the British Empire. It is widely known in Pakistan as Khatun-e Pakistan (Urdu: - "Lady of Pakistan") and Mader-e Millat (". Mother of the Nation") She was born in Karachi (Sindh province in British India, which later became part of Pakistan). She was an instrumental figure in the movement of Pakistan and the main organizer of the All India Students Federation of Muslim Women. After the formation of Pakistan and the death of her brother, she remained an active member of the country's politics. She continued to work for the good of the people of Pakistan in Karachi until his death July 9, 1967.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Gujarati: મુહંમદ અલી જિન્નાહ, Urdu: محمد علی جناح, Sindhi: محمد علي جناح  December 25, 1876 - September 11, 1948) was a 20th century jurist, politician, statesman and founder of Pakistan. And 'officially and popularly known in Pakistan, Quaid-e-Azam (urdu: قائد اعظم - "Great Leader") and Baba-e-qaum (بابائے قوم) ("Father of the Nation").

Jinnah served as leader of the League All India Muslim from 1913 until the independence of Pakistan, August 14, 1947, and that Pakistan was the first governor general of August 15, 1947 until his death on 11 September 1948 . Jinnah rose to prominence in the Indian National Congress first present the ideas of unity between Hindus and Muslims, and help shape the 1916 Lucknow Pact between the Muslim League and the Indian National Congress, also became a key leader in the All India Home Rule League. He proposed a fourteen-point plan for constitutional reform to protect the political rights of Muslims in India, a self-administration.

Jinnah then went into the two-nation theory includes the objective of creating an independent Muslim state in accordance with resolution of Lahore. The League won most Muslim seats in elections in 1946. After the British and the Congress withdrew from the Cabinet Mission Plan Jinnah called for a day of direct action to achieve the formation of Pakistan. This direct action by the Muslim League and its Volunteer Corps has caused massive riots in Calcutta between Muslims and Hindus.As the Indian National Congress and Muslim League failed to form a power-sharing in India USA, she prompted both parties and the British to accept the independence of Pakistan and India. As the first governor general of Pakistan, Jinnah led efforts to lay the foundations for the new state of Pakistan to formulate a national policy and the rehabilitation of millions of Muslim refugees who migrated from India.

Jinnah also assumed the role and the title "General protection of the Hindu minority" during the riots between Hindus and Muslims after the 1947th

Jinnah died at age 71 in September 1948, just a year after Pakistan gained independence from the British Empire.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (October 2, 1869 - January 30, 1948) was the great political and ideological leader of India in the Indian independence movement. A pioneer of Satyagraha, or resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience - a philosophy firmly based on ahimsa or total non-violence - Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom through world.Gandhi often called Mahatma ([TMA məɦa ː ː] Sanskrit. महात्मा Mahatma or "great soul", an award first applied to him by Rabindranath Tagore) In India, it is also known as Bapu (Gujarati: બાપુ, Bapu or "Father") and officially honored as the father of the nation. His birthday October 2, remembers India as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and the rest of the world as the International Day of Nonviolence.

Gandhi first employed non-violent civil disobedience as a foreign lawyer in South Africa, the struggle of the Indian community resident for civil rights. After his return to India in 1915 he began to organize the peasants, farmers and urban workers in protest against the excessive property tax and discrimination. Assuming that the leaders of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns to alleviate poverty, increase women's rights, building religious and ethnic friendship, ending untouchability, increased economic autonomy, but also to achieve Swaraj - the independence of India from foreign domination. Famous Gandhi led Indians to protest against British salt tax imposed on 400 km (250 mi) Dandi Salt March in 1930, and later in the call to the British to leave India in 1942. He was imprisoned for many years, on numerous occasions in both South Africa and India.

Gandhi tried to practice non-violence and truth in all situations, and advocated that others do the same. He lived modestly in a self-sufficient residential community and wore the traditional Indian dhoti and shawl, woven with the son she had woven by hand on a charkha. He ate simple vegetarian food, and also undertook long fasts as means of two self-purification and social protest.

Stephanie McMahon

Stephanie McMahon
Stephanie Marie McMahon-Levesque (born September 24, 1976) better known by her maiden name Stephanie McMahon, is chairman of the WWE vice president, creative development and operation., Valet former professional wrestler and occasional. She is the daughter of President and CEO Vince McMahon WWE Linda McMahon and Shane McMahon's younger sister and WWE wrestler, wife of Paul "Triple H" Levesque.

McMahon began to appear regularly on the WWE in 1999 as part of a history with the Undertaker. After a short screen test, she was attached to Triple H, she married both on screen and later in real life, which culminated in the McMahon-Helmsley Faction history. During his employment with the company, she held the WWF women's championship time. In 2001, she was on the screen of the owner of Extreme Championship Wrestling during the invasion. The following year, she was Director General of SmackDown, but ceased publication regularly on television after an "I Quit" match with his father, Vince. Once you have made sporadic appearances in several years, she began appearing regularly on Raw in 2008 as General Manager RAW.

Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey
James Eugene "Jim" Carrey (p. 17 January 1962) is a Canadian-American actress, comedian, singer and writer. He has received two Golden Globe Awards and has also been nominated four times. Carrey began play in 1979, performing at Yuk Yuk in Toronto, Ontario. After reaching the visibility in 1981, began working in the Comedy Store in Los Angeles, where it was noted that as soon as comic Rodney Dangerfield, who immediately signed him to open his performance tours. Carrey, long been interested in film and television, has developed a close friendship comedian Damon Wayans, who got his role in the coup Living Colour sketch comedy, in which he described the various characters during the show's 1990 season.

Having had little success in television films and several low-budget films, Carrey has been cast as the star of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, which debuted in February 1994 when more than $ 72 million film domestically.The generated a sequel, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995), where he resumed the role in Ventura. High-profile role after being cast as Stanley Ipkiss in Mask (1994), for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, and, as Lloyd Christmas comedy Dumb and Dumber (1994).

Between 1996 and 1999, Carrey has continued its success after getting starring roles in several films very popular as The Cable Guy (1996), Liar Liar (1997), in which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and second prize acclaimed movie The Truman Show and Man on the Moon between 1998 and 1999. Both films earned Carrey a Golden Globe. Since earning two awards, Carrey went on film comedy star, such as the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), where he played the title character, Bruce Almighty (2003), in which he described the role luck TV reporter Bruce Nolan, Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events (2004), Dick and Jane (2005), Yes Man (2008), and A Christmas Carol (2009). Carrey has also taken on more serious roles, such as Joel Barish in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), along with Kate Winslet and Kirsten Dunst, who earned his second Golden Globe nomination, and Steven Jay Russell, I love you Phillip Morris (2009) alongside Ewan McGregor.

Winona Ryder

Winona Ryder
Winona Laura Horowitz (born October 29, 1971), better known under her professional name Winona Ryder, is an American actress. She made her film debut in Lucas's film 1986. Ryder first major role came in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice (1988) as a goth teen who won critical and commercial recognition. After various appearances in film and television, Ryder continued her career with the cult film Heathers (1989), a satire controversial suicide among adolescents and high school life that has attracted the attention Ryder still critical and commercial.

Played different roles in several well received films, Ryder won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress award and Oscar nomination for his role in the same category in the Age of Innocence in 1993, and another Oscar nomination for Little Women the following year for Best Actress. In 2000, Ryder received a star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California.

Ryder's personal life has been widely reported in media.Her relationship with actor Johnny Depp in the early 1990s was highly publicized and has received a lot of control of the media and tabloid press. A lot of talk about shoplifting in 2001 led to a break of four years from acting.She also revealed his personal struggle with anxiety and depression, short-term control clinic.In in 2006, returns to Ryder the screen, and some media have called his performance "remarkable comeback" to acting, having appeared in films such as High Level Star Trek.In 2010 she was nominated for two Screen Actors Guild Award as lead actress of When Love Is Not Enough: The Story of Lois Wilson, and in proportion to the votes of Black Swan.