Social Activist Famous Names Starting with Letter K

Was an Indian freedom fighter. She was born in 1907, to a bhadralok Vaidya family of Bikrampur in Dh

Was an Indian freedom fighter. She was born in 1907, to a bhadralok Vaidya family of Bikrampur in Dhaka, now in Bangladesh; the family later moved to Calcutta, where she got a Master of Arts degree in history from Bethune College [1], Calcutta University. Nationalist ideas were current among the young people in Calcutta she met at university, and she was filling with a strong desire to take part in the freedom struggle. She tried to quit her studies and enter Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s Sabarmati Ashram, but her parents disapproved. Finishing her education, she became friends with some members of the extremist Jugantar Party, and was quickly converted from her original Gandhism to the cult of armed resistance.

Was an American labor union activist and chemical technician at the Kerr-McGee plant near Crescent,

Was an American labor union activist and chemical technician at the Kerr-McGee plant near Crescent, Oklahoma, United States.Silkwood's job was making plutonium pellets for nuclear reactor fuel rods. She died under mysterious circumstances after investigating claims of irregularities and wrongdoing at the Kerr-McGee plant.

Was a Polish writer, historian and independence activist. Self-taught, he would nonetheless become a

Was a Polish writer, historian and independence activist. Self-taught, he would nonetheless become a notable Polish historian of the partitions period.Karol Szajnocha was born as Karol Scheinoha von Wtelensky on 20 November 1818 in Komarno, son of Germanized and Polonized Czech Waclaw Scheinoh-Vtelenský and Maria Lozinska. Karol attended schools in Sambor and Lwów; in that period Szajnocha adopted the polonized version of his name (from Sheinoh to Szajnocha).[1][2]

Was the founder of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Hedgewar founded the RSS in Nagpur, Mahara

Was the founder of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Hedgewar founded the RSS in Nagpur, Maharashtra in 1925, with the intention of promoting the concept of the Hindu nation. Hedgewar drew upon influences from social and spiritual Hindu reformers such as Swami Vivekananda, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and Aurobindo to develop the core philosophy of the RSS.

An Indian social activist and a retired Indian Police Service (IPS) officer. She became the first wo

An Indian social activist and a retired Indian Police Service (IPS) officer. She became the first woman to join the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1972, and was last posted as Director General , BPR&D (Bureau of Police Research and Development, Ministry of Home Affairs). She retired from IPS in December, 2007, after taking voluntary retirement. She is also the author and director of Agle Janam Mohe Bitiya Hi Kijo.

An Indian social activist who is especially recognized for his contribution to the development of Ra

An Indian social activist who is especially recognized for his contribution to the development of Ralegan Siddhi, a village in Ahmednagar district, Maharashtra, India and his efforts for establishing it as a model village, for which he was awarded the Padma Bhushan by Govt. of India, in 1992.

The President of Save Bombay Committee and Prakruti, nonprofits based in India.He has a B.A. Hons in

The President of Save Bombay Committee and Prakruti, nonprofits based in India.He has a B.A. Hons in History & Economics, a LL.B from the Bombay University and Diplomas in Electrical Engineering and Prestressed Concrete. He was a Freedom Fighter participating in the Quit India Movement launched by Mahatma Gandhi in 1942. During this struggle he was arrested and imprisoned in the Yervada Central Prison, Pune for eight months[citation needed].

Was the founder and leader of Fighting Solidarity (Polish: Solidarnosc Walczaca) one of the more rad

Was the founder and leader of Fighting Solidarity (Polish: Solidarnosc Walczaca) one of the more radical splinters of Solidarity movement in Poland, during the 1980s.[1] His academic background is that of a theoretical physicist.[2]He was the son of Michal and Jadwiga (née Szumanska). He graduated from the gimnazjum of Adam Mickiewicz in 1958 in Warsaw. He finished a higher degree in physics at the University of Warsaw in 1958. He finished his doctorate under Jan Rzewuski in Quantum Field Theory in 1970. He worked as a researcher at the University of Wroclaw, at first in the Institute of Physics, later in Mathematics. After 1973, he worked at the Wroclaw Polytechnic.

A social service activist from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. She and her husband, Sankaralingam Ja

A social service activist from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. She and her husband, Sankaralingam Jagannathan, have protested against social injustice and she is well known as a Gandhian activist. Her work includes upliftment of Dalits, the landless, and the poor; she has sometimes fought against governments as well as big industries.She was earlier involved in the Indian independence movement, along with her husband, and was also a close associate of Vinoba Bhave. She has received several awards and recently has been listed for Right Livelihood Award for 2008, which she would share with four others, including her husband.

Was a prominent defence lawyer and a controversial minority Tamil nationalist politician from Sri La

Was a prominent defence lawyer and a controversial minority Tamil nationalist politician from Sri Lanka. He was shot dead by unknown gunmen immediately after a suspected LTTE suicide bomb attack against the then president Chandrika Kumaratunga.[1]Kumar Ponnambalam was born in capital city of Colombo to an affluent and politically influential minority Sri Lankan Tamil family. His father G. G. Ponnambalam was also a prominent defense attorney and the leader of All Ceylon Tamil Congress, a party that was at times an ally of the ruling majority Sinhalese dominated United National Party in opposition to the Tamil Nationalistic tone of other Tamil political parties.[2]