Social Activist Famous Names Starting with Letter P

She and her younger brother Palaash Muchhal perform stage shows across India and abroad to raise fun

She and her younger brother Palaash Muchhal perform stage shows across India and abroad to raise funds for the poor children's who need financial assistance for the medical treatment of heart Disease.[1][2] [3] [4]Palak Muchhal is born in middle class family. Her mother, Amita Muchhal is homemaker and her father, Rajkumar Muchhal serves as Accountant in private firm. She is Class X student of Queen's College, Indore. Palak started singing when she was four year old. At the age of six, she started singing door-to-door in Indore city to collect fund for soldiers on Kargil warfront. Her decision to use her voice to help others was triggered when she saw poor children using clothes off their back to clean train compartments.

As Bhausaheb Deshmukh was a social activist and a farmer's leader in India. He was the Minister of A

As Bhausaheb Deshmukh was a social activist and a farmer's leader in India. He was the Minister of Agriculture in the first cabinet of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru in 1952.[1]He was attached with Satya Shodhak Samaj of Mahatma Phule.He did satyagraha for entry to untouchables in Ambabai Temple, Amrawati, which was a very strongly condemned by the upper castes. Dr.Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was pro to him in this movement.

An Indian politician, and ex menber of parliament, a doctor by profession. He was born in a Kurmi fa

An Indian politician, and ex menber of parliament, a doctor by profession. He was born in a Kurmi family in a small town of Barkhera, his Father Mr. Jhamman Lal was a local former. In May 1957, he married Smt. Ishwarawati and has two sons and four daughters from her.

Was a Polish communist leader and First secretary of the PPR from 1943 to 1944.Finder came from an a

Was a Polish communist leader and First secretary of the PPR from 1943 to 1944.Finder came from an affluent Jewish shopkeeping family in Bielsko-Biala, where he was educated. He briefly flirted with Zionism while still at school and visited Palestine. He studied chemistry in Vienna, Mulhouse and Paris, where he was a researcher at the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers and an assistant to Frédéric Joliot-Curie. A highly able scientist and linguist, he graduated as a Chemical Engineer. From 1922 to 1924 he was a member of the Austrian Communist Party, and from 1924 to 1928 of the French Communist Party, serving in the Central Committee apparatus and writing articles for l'Humanité. He was expelled from France for Communist activity in 1928 and returned to Poland. He completed military service in officer school. He was active in the underground KPP until his arrest in 1934, serving as secretary in Silesia, Lódz, Warsaw, Zaglebia Dabrowska and Kraków, and as a member of the National Secretariat in 1933.

Was an American author, activist and politician. In 2004, he was selected by independent candidate R

Was an American author, activist and politician. In 2004, he was selected by independent candidate Ralph Nader as his vice-presidential running mate on a ticket which had the endorsement of the Reform Party.[1][2]Camejo was a three-time Green Party gubernatorial candidate most recently in 2006 receiving 2.3% of the vote. Camejo also ran in the 2003 California recall election finishing fourth in a field of 135 candidates (2.8%), and in 2002, finishing fourth with 5.3%.

Is an American software publisher, author, and philanthropist.In the 1980s, Norton produced a popula

Is an American software publisher, author, and philanthropist.In the 1980s, Norton produced a popular tool to retrieve erased data from DOS disks, which was followed by several other tools which were collectively known as the Norton Utilities.

Is a French political activist. He was the founder of the Paris book shop La Vieille Taupe in 1965 a

Is a French political activist. He was the founder of the Paris book shop La Vieille Taupe in 1965 and later the negationist publishing house of the same name.[1] A former member of Socialisme ou Barbarie, he moved to Pouvoir Ouvrier with Jean-François Lyotard and P. Souyiri.

An Indian writer and journalist who has won critical acclaim for her works "Once was Bombay", and "A

An Indian writer and journalist who has won critical acclaim for her works "Once was Bombay", and "Aruna's Story".Virani was born in Mazagaon, Bombay, India, to a Gujarati Muslim parents. Her father owned a shop, and Mom was housewife. She did her schooling at Bombay, Poona and Mussoorie. She went to US to get her Masters in Journalism from Columbia University, on Aga Khan Foundation scholarship. She did an internship at The Sunday Times, where she reported extensively on the race riots in Britain. She returned to Bombay and joined Mid-Day as editor.

Was an Indian cultural activist and writer (1916-1997), who was a close friend and biographer to bot

Was an Indian cultural activist and writer (1916-1997), who was a close friend and biographer to both the Nehru-Gandhi family and philosopher J Krishnamurti.She studied as a journalist in England before marrying and settling in Mumbai in 1937. She became politically involved after becoming assistant to Congress activist Mridula Sarabhai. In the late 1940's she became friends with J Krishnamurti and also became involved in the handloom industry, heading the Handicrafts and Handlooms Export Corporation. In later years, on the request of her friend Indira Gandhi, she would found the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage [1]. She was active with the Krishnamurti Foundation in India until her death.

A Brahmin family of Almora, in Uttarakhand. In 1929, at the age of 22, the British Government arrest

A Brahmin family of Almora, in Uttarakhand. In 1929, at the age of 22, the British Government arrested him as one of the suspects of the Meerut Conspiracy Case. The other early communist leaders who were arrested along with him included Shaukat Usmani, Muzaffar Ahmed, S.A. Dange and G.V. Ghate.