Famous People with Name Pura

Pura Santillan Castrence            Origin/Culture/Country: Philippines

Pura Santillan Castrence: was a Filipino writer and diplomat. Of Filipino women writers, she was among the first to gain prominence writing in the English language. She was named a Chevalier de Légion d'honneur by the French government.Santillan-Castrence's literary career began in the 1920s, and she soon was recognized as among the leading Filipino essayists of the 20th century. Many of her essays were featured in Philippine Prose and Poetry a widely studied high-school textbook which she had authored. She became a columnist with the Manila Daily Bulletin, and contributed essays and articles in many other national publications. She explored feminist themes in works such as The Women Characters in Rizal’s Novels, a study on the female characters in Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo.

Pura Santillan-Castrence            Origin/Culture/Country: Philippines

Pura Santillan-Castrence: was a Filipino writer and diplomat. Of Filipino women writers, she was among the first to gain prominence writing in the English language. She was named a Chevalier de Légion d'honneur by the French government.

Puran Chand Joshi            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Puran Chand Joshi: 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.

Daggubati Purandhareswari            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Daggubati Purandhareswari: is an Indian politician from the state of Andhra Pradesh. She is a member of the Indian National Congress where she represents the Visakhapatnam constituency of Andhra Pradesh in 15th Lok Sabha of India. She had previously represented the Bapatla constitu

Ambalal Balkrishna Purani            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Ambalal Balkrishna Purani: was a prominent disciple and biographer of Sri Aurobindo.A nationalist activist as a young man, in 1923 he joined Sri Aurobindo Ashram on being convinced by Sri Aurobindo that he need not worry about the freedom of India as it was sure to come in time. He was a personal attendant to Sri Aurobindo from 1938 to 1950.[1]