Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Tendulkar (Indian Cricket Icon)
Full Name : Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar.
Born : 24 April 1973.
Place : Mumbai, India.
Nationality : Indian.
Parents : Ramesh Tendulkar, Rajni.
Spouse : Anjali.
Children : Sara and Arjun.
Coach : Ramakant Achrekar.
Nicknames : Little Master, Tendlya, Master Blaster, The Master, The Little Champion.
Batting Style : Right-handed.

Awards :
Padma Vibhushan, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjuna Award, Padma Shri, Wisden Cricketer of the Year, Maharashtra Bhushan Award.

Cricket Profile (till date) :
Matches Played -162 Tests & 439 ODIs.
Centuries - 88 (43 in Tests and 45 in ODIs).
Half Centuries – 147.
Runs Scored - 30,356 .
Highest Score - 248 in Tests, 200* in ODIs.
Wickets Taken - 44 in Tests, 154 in ODIs
Man of the Match Awards – 60.
Man of the Series Awards -15.

What other cricketers say about Sachin Tendulkar :

“I saw myself in Sachin when i saw him bat.” Sir Don Bradman
“I'll be going to bed having nightmares of Sachin just running down the wicket and belting me back over the head for six. He was unstoppable. I don't think anyone, apart from Don Bradman, is in the same class as Sachin Tendulkar. He is just an amazing player.” Shane Warne
“Closest thing to batting perfection.” Sunil Gavaskar
“Cricketers like Sachin come once in a lifetime and I am privileged he played in my time.” Wasim Akram
“He is 99.5 percent perfect. I'd pay to see him.” Viv Richards
“You know genius when you see it. And let me tell you, Sachin is pure genius.” Brian Lara
“Sachin is cricket's God.” Barry Richards
“Tendulkar will go down in history as the best ever batsman after Bradman.” Steve Waugh.
“Tendulkar is the best batsman I have seen or played against.” Ricky Ponting
"Cricketing jewel of subcontinent." Hanif Mohammad
"Sachin Tendulkar is the greatest batsman the game has ever seen, better than even the iconic Don Bradman. " Nasser Hussain
"He's probably the greatest batsman I've ever seen play, live. Cricket was blessed to have such a genius. Michael Clarke
"Sachin, the man we all want to be." Andrew Symonds
"We did not lose to a team called India...we lost to a man called Sachin." Mark Taylor
"I have seen God, he bats at No.4 for India." Hayden
"I am fortunate that I've to bowl at him only in the nets!" Anil Kumble
"There are 2 kinds of batsmen in the world.
One: SACHIN TENDULKAR
Two: all the others……………..!" Andy Flower
"On a train from Shimla to Delhi, there was a halt in one of the stations.
The train stopped by for few minutes as usual.Sachin was nearing century, batting on 98.
The passengers, railway officials, everyone on the train waited for Sachin to complete the century.
This Genius can stop time in India!!" Peter Rebouck (aussie journalist)
"He can play that leg glance with a walking stick also." Waqar Younis

Books written on Sachin Tendulkar :
Sachin: The Story of the World's Greatest Batsman by Gulu Ezekiel.
The A to Z of Sachin Tendulkar by Gulu Ezekiel.
Sachin Tendulkar-a definitive biography by Vaibhav Purandare.
Sachin Tendulkar - Masterful by Peter Murray.
If Cricket is a Religion, Sachin is God by Vijay Santhanam.

Sachin is the iconic Indian smashing the first double century in the four-decade-long history of One-day cricket.

He made his debut as cricketer at the age of 16. By the year 2009 he completed his 20 years of international cricket. He is regarded as the God of Indian cricket. His records are still going on and on…Keep going Sachin….

Kalpana Chawla

Kalpana Chawla (Indian-American scientist)

Born : March 17, 1962 at Karnal, Haryana, India.
Demised : February 1, 2003
Nationality : Indian.
Parents : Banarsi Lal Chawla and Sanjogta Kharbanda.
Spouse : Jean-Pierre Harrison.

Education :
Bachelor of engineering degree in aeronautical engineering at Punjab Engineering College in Chandigarh.
Master of Science degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington.
Master of Science degree in 1986 and a PhD in aerospace engineering in 1988 from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Career :
Worked as NASA astronaut.
She was one of seven crewmembers of Space Shuttle Columbia .
Worked as vice president for NASA Ames Research Center .

Missions Handled :
In 1997, Chawla worked in the space shuttle STS-87 Columbia as a mission specialist.
On January 16, 2003, Chawla worked in the space shuttle STS-107 as a flight engineer and mission specialist. (she logged 30 days, 14 hours and 54 minutes in space)

Achievements :
Chawla was the first Indian-born woman and the second person of Indian origin to fly in space, following cosmonaut Rakesh Sharma who flew in 1984.
During STS-87, she was responsible for deploying the Spartan Satellite which malfunctioned.

Posthumous Awards:
Congressional Space Medal of Honor NASA Space.
Flight Medal NASA Distinguished Service Medal.
Defense Distinguished Service Medal.

Honour :
In her memory India's Prime Minister Mr. A.B.Vajpayee announced on February 5, 2003, that the meteorological series of satellites, "METSAT", will be renamed as "KALPANA". The first satellite of the series, "METSAT-1", launched by India on September 12, 2002 will be now known as "KALPANA-1".
Kalpana Chawla Award was instituted by the government of Karnataka in 2004 for young women scientists.
Government of Haryana has made a Planetarium after her name called as Kalpana Chawla Planetarium in Jyotisar,Kurukshetra.

Quotes by Kalpana Chawla :
When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.

Books : Kalpana Chawla: A Life, by Padmanabhan, Anil.

Kalpana died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster which occurred on February 1, 2003, when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated over Texas during re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere, with the loss of all seven crew members, shortly before it was scheduled to conclude its 28th mission, STS-107.