Famous People with Name Kaushik

Kaushik Naginda Amalean            Origin/Culture/Country: Sri-Lankan

Kaushik Naginda Amalean: is a former Sri Lankan cricketer who played in 2 Tests and 8 ODIs from 1986 to 1988.

Kaushik Basu            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Kaushik Basu: an Indian economist. He is the C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics and Director, Program on Comparative Economic Development at Cornell University. He was born in Calcutta and received his early education there, at St. Xavier's School. In 1969 he moved to Delhi to do his undergraduate studies in Economics from St. Stephen's College and then he went on to the London School of Economics, from where he received his M.Sc. (Econ) in 1974 and PhD in 1976. He did his Ph.D. under the supervision of Amartya Sen, Nobel laureate in the area of choice theory and welfare economics.

Kaushiki Desikan            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Kaushiki Desikan: a prominent Indian classical vocalist.She is the daughter of Chandana Chakraborty and the renowned Indian classical singer Ajoy Chakraborty. At age seven, she started learning Indian classical music at the academy of Pandit Jnan Prakash Ghosh, joining later ITC Sangeet Research Academy.Kaushikii has participated in many major concerts, including the Dover Lane Music Conference, the ITC Sangeet Sammelan in India, the Spring Festival of Music (California), and Parampara Program (Los Angeles).

Maharaj Krishan Kaushik            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Maharaj Krishan Kaushik: is a former member of the India national field hockey team and is currently the coach of the Indian women's national field hockey team. He was a member of the team when it won the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

Bhupendra Nath Kaushik            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Bhupendra Nath Kaushik: was a Hindi and Urdu language poet, writer and satirist.He was born in Nahan, Himachal Pradesh. He completed basic study in ambala cantt Hariyana. After that he settled in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh and completed an M.A. in English. He was an employee of BSNL. After pursuing writing along with his service for some time, he became well known as an Urdu story writer. But when he was settled in Jabalpur, he did write poetry in Hindi.