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Digvijay Singh  

Digvijay Singh is a former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh and a senior Congress (I) politician.. He has been the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh state for two five-year terms. He first became Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh on December 7, 1993 and continued to hold the post till November 2003. He is currently a General Secretary of the All India Congress Committee. 

Digvijay Singh was born in the royal family of  Raghogarh principality, in Guna district of Madhya Pradesh. He studied at the Daly College, Indore. During his school days he was an outstanding sportsman. He was member of the school team in cricket, hockey and soccer. He also was the national squash champion, the youngest to ever win it.

He is an engineering graduate from  SGSITS in Indore. He is also a St. Stephen's College, Delhi alumni.

Chitranjan Singh Ranawat is a hip surgeon. He is based in New York and is of Indian origin. He is a winner of  Padma Bhushan, which is one of the highest civilian honours of India. He is considered as one of best orthopaedicians in the world. He has also authored over 200 papers on orthopaedics.

He had operated on former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's knee.He is the Director of the Orthopeadic Surgery and Centre for Total Joint Replacement in New York.

Dr Ranawat reportedly uses a cemented total knee replacement in which the components are fixed with a bone cement called methy-methacrylate. Dr Ranawat uses the PFC Modular Knee system he has developed after years of research with thousands of cases. He is the co-developer of the Total Condylar Knee and the PFC Sigma High flexion knee. Dr. Ranawat also helped design the Ranawat-Burstein Total Hip System and Accolade Hip System. Dr. Ranawat is a consistent frontrunner on New York magazine's list of top 100 orthopedic surgeons in the country. 

Dr. Chitranjan Singh Ranawat

Raj Singh Dungarpur

He played for  Rajasthan, and he played in 86 first class cricket matches from 1955 to 1971. He was a medium pace bowler. The gangling bowler captured 206 wickets in 86 matches and rubbed shoulders with stalwarts like Vijay Manjrekar, Hanumant Singh and Salim Durrani.. He was appointed as the Manager of the Indian Cricket team on a number of occasions. He was also a keen wildlife enthusiast, as also a keen golfer.

He was also the president of Cricket Club of India for 13 years in  Mumbai. He served as the President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India for two terms.  

Hanumant Singh was an Indian Cricketer. He played in 14  Tests for the Indian cricket team from 1964 to 1969. He was later an International Cricket Council match referee in 9 Tests and 54 One Day Internationals from 1995 and 2002.

He made his Test debut in the 4th Test against England at Delhi in February 1964, scoring 105 and so becoming the fifth Indian to make a Test century on debut, emulating  Lala Amarnath,   Deepak Shodhan, AG Kripal Singh & Abbas Ali Baig.

He was manager of the Indian team that toured the West Indies in 1983. He was also chairman of the National Cricket Academy, based in Bangalore, and a coach for Rajasthan.

Hanumant Singh

Prabhat Patnaik

Prabhat Patnaik is an Indian Marxist-Leninist economist and political commentator, who has achieved international acclaim with his incisive analysis of economics and politics. He is a professor at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning in the School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. He is currently Vice-Chairman of the Planning Board of the Indian state of Kerala.

Prabhat Patnaik studied at Daly College, on a Government of India Merit Scholarship. He passed his B.A. with Economics Honours from St. Stephen's College, Delhi. He went to Oxford University in 1966 on a Rhodes scholarship and studied at Balliol College and later at Nuffield College. He obtained his B.Phil and his D.Phil. degrees from Oxford University.