Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru, the leader of India’s nationalist movement and the country’s first prime minister after independence.
Nehru joined the Indian National Congress in 1919 and subsequently joined Indian Nationalist leader Mahatma Gandhi’s independence movement. Nehru's four pillars of domestic policies were - democracy, socialism, unity, and secularism, and he largely succeeded in maintaining a strong foundation of all four during his tenure. Despite his reservations, Nehru acquiesced to Mountbatten and the Muslim League's plan to divide India.
His birthday, 14 November, is celebrated in India as Baal Divas or Children's Day in recognition of his lifelong passion and love to work on behalf of children and young people.
Josh Duhamel
Joshua David Duhamel is an American actor and former model, mostly known for his role as Danny McCoy in NBC's Las Vegas and as Captain Lennox in the Transformers franchise. Duhamel made his acting debut as Leo du Pres on the ABC daytime soap opera All My Children and later starred as Danny McCoy on NBC's Las Vegas.
Duhamel has also starred in movies like When in Rome (2010), Life as We Know It (2010), New Year's Eve (2011), Safe Haven (2013), and You're Not You (2014).
Duhamel, when asked about how he began, has often stated, "After college, I followed an ex-girlfriend to northern California, did a bunch of odd jobs." Duhamel had won the title of Male Model of the Year in an International Modeling and Talent Association (IMTA) competition in 1997 for which the runner-up was Ashton Kutcher.
Vikas Khanna
Vikas Khanna is a New York based Michelin starred Indian Chef. Khanna shot to fame in the country when he was chosen as one of the judges for the Indian version of the culinary reality show, Masterchef.
In 2011, People magazine named Khanna in the list of Sexiest Men Alive and also referred to him as "The Hottest Chef of America".
He has worked for the Taj, Oberoi, Welcome group, and Leela Group of Hotels and with some of the most influential chefs of the world including Gordon Ramsay, Bobby Flay, Jean-Georges Vongerichten.
He has studied at the Cornell University, Culinary Institute of America, and New York University.
Khanna started his restaurant, Junoon on 2 Dec 2010, in Flatiron district of Manhattan, New York. Khanna's restaurant Junoon received a favourable review from Sam Sifton in The New York Times in March 2011.
Junoon has been awarded a Michelin star by the Michelin Guide for 6 consecutive years since 2011.
Prince Charles
Prince Charles, also known as Charles Philip Arthur George is the heir apparent to the British throne as the eldest child of Queen Elizabeth II.
When Prince Charles becomes King Charles III of Great Britain, he'll be the oldest ever to be crowned and the one who waited the longest. He was made the Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester at the age of nine. Beginning in 1962, After receiving his the prince embarked on a career in the military.
In 2007, Charles launched the Prince's Rainforest Project, a global initiative with corporate and celebrity backing to curtail tropical deforestation and thus aid the quest to stanch climate change.
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