Toru Dutt (also known as Torulata Dutt) was a pioneering Indian poet, translator, and novelist who wrote in English and French. Born into a prominent Bengali family in colonial India, she bridged Eastern and Western literary traditions but died young at 21 from tuberculosis.
Salman Khan (born Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan, December 27, 1965) is an Indian actor, producer, singer, and television host, predominantly in Hindi cinema.
Born in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, to screenwriter Salim Khan and Salma Khan, he is one of Bollywood's highest-paid stars with over 90 films, including blockbusters like Maine Pyar Kiya (1989) and Bajrangi Bhaijaan (2015). Known for his mass appeal, philanthropy via Being Human Foundation, and controversies (e.g., blackbuck poaching case), he has won two National Film Awards as a producer and multiple Filmfare nods. His net worth exceeds $200 million, and he hosts Bigg Boss.
Guy de Maupassant (August 5, 1850 – July 6, 1893) was a French naturalist writer, renowned as a master of the short story.
Born in Normandy to a bourgeois family, he served in the Franco-Prussian War, then became a protégé of Gustave Flaubert. His 300+ stories, including "Boule de Suif" (1880), explore war's futility, human folly, and social norms with irony and realism. Six novels, like Bel-Ami (1885), and travel books followed, but syphilis led to mental decline and early death at 42.
