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17 8 medals, 6 consecutive medals from 31 Dr Vikram Sarabhai
1928 to 1956, 1 in 1964 in Tokyo and 1 in
1980 in Moscow. 32 The Chipko Movement
18 Potti Sreeramalu 33 Kissa Kursi Ka, made by Amrit Nahata
19 1959 34 Sholay, Ramesh Sippy,
Basanti
20 January 31, 1963
35 1972
21 Rita Faria, 1966, in London
36 Jayaprakash Narayan
22 Lal Bahadur Shastri, India’s second
prime minister (not counting Gulzarilal 37 Amitabh Bachchan, and Rajesh
Nanda) Khanna
23 She split the Congress Party 38 The IXth Asian Games
24 The Beatles, Maharishi 39 Kapil Dev captained the
Mahesh Yogi Indian cricket team to win the
Prudential Cup, defeating the
formidable West Indies.
25 East Meets West 40 Prime Minister Indira
Gandhi
26 Ajit Wadekar
41 Bhopal, Union Carbide’s factory
27 Bishan Singh Bedi, EAS Prasanna and saw massive gas leaks due to faulty
S Chandrashekhar. maintenance. Thousands died and many
continue to suffer the effects to this day.
28 In 1971, in the West Indies, a real One of the world’s worst industrial
baptism of fire disasters.
29 Lt General Jagjit Singh Aurora, 42 Dhirubhai Ambani,
accepted Pakistan’s Lt-General AAK Niazi’s Only Vimal
surrender on December 16, 1971
43 Wing Commander
30 CV Raman, for Physics, for his work Rakesh Sharma of the Indian
in the scattering of light. He was the first Air Force flew on Soyuz T-11 in 1984. He
Indian director of the Indian Institute became an instant hero. Another Air Force
of Science. He was awarded a Bharat pilot, Ravish Malhotra also went through
Ratna in 1956. His nephew Subramaniam the training and was put on standby.
Chandrashekhar also won a Nobel in
Physics in 1983. 44 Bofors
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