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665 Literary Contests
(Poems, Short-stories, and
Plays) in
Any Language of the World
(You can participate in as many as you like)
on:
| S/N. |
Historical
Personage |
Period
|
| 1. |
Manu |
-
|
| 2. |
Moses |
(14th century
BC) |
| 3. |
Homer |
(9th century
BC) |
| 4. |
Zoroaster |
(7th century
BC) |
| 5. |
Kapila |
(7th Century
BC) |
| 6. |
Parmenides |
(6th century
BC) |
| 7. |
Thales |
(624547
BC) |
| 8. |
Anaxamander |
(610546
BC) |
| 9. |
Pythagoras |
(580500
BC) |
| 10. |
Mahavir Jain |
(6th Century
BC) |
| 11. |
Buddha |
(6th Century
BC) |
| 12. |
Xenophanes |
(560478
BC) |
| 13. |
Lao Tzu; |
- |
| 14. |
Confucious |
(551479
BC) |
| 15. |
Anaxamenes |
(flourished 545
BC) |
| 16. |
Leucippus |
(500440
BC) |
| 17. |
Heraclitus |
(544483
BC) |
| 18. |
Anaxagoras |
(500428 BC) |
| 19. |
Zeno |
(490430
BC) |
| 20. |
Empidocles |
(490430
BC) |
| 21. |
Protogoras |
(480410
BC) |
| 22. |
Socrates |
(469399
BC) |
| 23. |
Gorgias |
(483375
BC) |
| 24. |
Mo Tzu |
(479381
BC) |
| 25. |
Democritus |
(460370
BC) |
| 26. |
Antisthenes |
(435370
BC) |
| 27. |
Aristippus |
(435366
BC) |
| 28. |
Plato |
(428348
BC) |
| 29. |
Yang Chu |
(395335
BC) |
| 30. |
Aristotle |
(384322
BC) |
| 31. |
Mencius |
(372289
BC) |
| 32. |
Theophrastus |
(372287
BC) |
| 33. |
Diogenes |
(b
320) |
| 34. |
Euclid |
(b300BC) |
| 35. |
Kautilya |
(fl. 300
BC) |
| 36. |
Pyrrho |
(365275
BC) |
| 37. |
Epicurus |
(341270
BC) |
| 38. |
Zeno |
(336264
BC) |
| 39. |
Arcesilaus |
(315241
BC) |
| 40. |
Hsun Tzu |
(313238
BC) |
| 41. |
Archimedes |
(287212
BC) |
| 42. |
Chrysippus |
(281208
BC) |
| 43. |
Carneades |
(214139
BC) |
| 44. |
Valmiki |
- |
| 45. |
Ved Vyas |
- |
| 46. |
Patanjali |
(fl. 2nd Century
BC) |
| 47. |
Cicero |
(10643
BC) |
| 48. |
Spartacus |
(died 71
BC) |
| 49. |
Lucretius Carno |
(9955
BC) |
| 50. |
Aenesidemus |
(1st Century
BC) |
| 51. |
Christ |
- |
| 52. |
Senecca |
(4 BC65
AD) |
| 53. |
Wang Chung |
(27104
AD) |
| 54. |
Epictitus |
(50138
AD) |
| 55. |
Agrippa |
- |
| 56. |
Marcus |
(121180
AD) |
| 57. |
Akshapada |
(1st/2nd Century
AD) |
| 58. |
Nagarjuna |
(fl.
200AD) |
| 59. |
Sextus Empricus |
(200250
AD) |
| 60. |
Plotinus |
(205270
AD) |
| 61. |
Hypatia |
- |
| 62. |
Saint Augustine |
(354400
AD) |
| 63. |
Asanga |
(4th
Century) |
| 64. |
Proclus |
(410485
AD) |
| 65. |
Vatsayana |
(5th
Century) |
| 66. |
Aryabhatta |
(Flourished 476
AD) |
| 67. |
Vasubandhu |
(5th Century
AD) |
| 68. |
Boethius |
(480524
AD) |
| 69. |
Dignaga |
(6th Century
AD) |
| 70. |
Muhammad |
(poems and
short-stories only) |
| 71. |
Abu Bakr |
- |
| 72. |
Omar Ibn al Khattab |
- |
| 73. |
Uthman Ibn Affan |
- |
| 74. |
Ali Ibn Abu Talib |
- |
| 75. |
Dharamkirti |
(7th Century
AD) |
| 76. |
Mimamsakas |
- |
| 77. |
Kumarila |
(7th
Century) |
| 78. |
Prabhakara |
(7th
Century) |
| 79. |
Bharthari |
(7th century
AD) |
| 80. |
Omar bin Abdul Aziz |
- |
| 81. |
Shankracharya |
- |
| 82. |
Ibn Jabir |
- |
| 83. |
Muhammad bin Musa al
Khawarizmi |
- |
| 84. |
Ali Ibn Rabbah al
Tabari |
- |
| 85. |
Mandana Misra |
(8th
Century) |
| 86. |
Al Kindi |
(800870
AD) |
| 87. |
Erigene |
(810877
AD) |
| 88. |
Salikantha |
(9th
Century) |
| 89. |
Parthasarthi Misra |
(10th
Century) |
| 90. |
Vacaspati Misra |
- |
| 91. |
Udayana |
(10th
Century) |
| 92. |
Ibn Zakaria |
- |
| 93. |
Abul Hassan Ali |
- |
| 94. |
Al Razi |
- |
| 95. |
Mansur al Hallaj |
- |
| 96. |
Al Masudi |
- |
| 97. |
Abu Ali Sina |
(Avicenna; 9801037
AD) |
| 98. |
Al Baruni |
- |
| 99. |
Chang Tsai |
(10201077
AD) |
| 100. |
Anselm |
(10331109
AD) |
| 101. |
Prabhachandra |
(11th
Century) |
| 102. |
Yamunacarya |
(11th
Century) |
| 103. |
Ramanuja |
(11th
Century) |
| 104. |
Omar Khayyam |
(10481131
AD) |
| 105. |
Roscelin |
(10501112
AD) |
| 106. |
Al Ghazzali |
- |
| 107. |
Abelard Peter |
(10691142
AD) |
| 108. |
Abdul Qadir Jeelani |
(b1077) |
| 109. |
Al Idrisi |
(11001166
AD) |
| 110. |
Ibn Rushd |
(Averroes;11261198) |
| 111. |
Madhva |
(12th
Century) | | |
| S/N. |
Historical
Personage |
Period
|
| 112. |
Chu Hsi |
(11301200 AD) |
| 113. |
Khwaja Moeenuddin
Chishti |
(11391236 AD) |
| 114. |
Rumi |
- |
| 115. |
Gangesa Upadhyay |
(12th/13th
Century) |
| 116. |
Nasir Uddin al Tusi |
(died 1274 AD) |
| 117. |
Abelard the Great |
(12071280 AD) |
| 118. |
Roger Bacon |
(12141292 AD) |
| 119. |
Bonaventura |
(12211274 AD) |
| 120. |
Aquinas |
(12251274 AD) |
| 121. |
Nimbkara |
(13th Century) |
| 122. |
Prasadhar Misra |
- |
| 123. |
Lully Ramond |
(12351315 AD) |
| 124. |
Duns |
(12651308 AD) |
| 125. |
Muammar Sinan |
- |
| 126. |
Occam |
(12851349 AD) |
| 127. |
Ibn Khaldun |
(13321406 AD) |
| 128. |
Gadadhara Bhattacharya |
- |
| 129. |
Ramananda |
(14001570 AD) |
| 130. |
Cusa Nicholas |
(14011464 AD) |
| 131. |
Kabir |
(14401518 AD) |
| 132. |
Guru Nanak |
(14691539 AD) |
| 133. |
Guru Angad |
- |
| 134. |
Guru Amar Das |
- |
| 135. |
Guru Ram Das |
- |
| 136. |
Guru Arjun Mala |
- |
| 137. |
Guru Hargobid |
- |
| 138. |
Guru Har Rai |
- |
| 139. |
Guru Hari Krishan |
- |
| 140. |
Guru Teg Bahadur |
- |
| 141. |
Guru Gobind Singh |
- |
| 142. |
Erasmus |
(14691536 AD) |
| 143. |
Copernicus |
(14731543 AD) |
| 144. |
Ragunath Siromani |
(14751550 AD) |
| 145. |
Thomas More |
(14781535 AD) |
| 146. |
Luther Martin |
(14831546 AD) |
| 147. |
Chaitanya |
(14851539 AD) |
| 148. |
Khwaja Muin-ud-Din
Hassan |
- |
| 149. |
Montaigne |
(15331592 AD) |
| 150. |
Charron Pierre |
(15411603 AD) |
| 151. |
Bruno |
(15481600 AD) |
| 152. |
Francis Bacon |
(15611626 AD) |
| 153. |
Galileo |
(15641642 AD) |
| 154. |
Shakespeare |
(15641616 AD) |
| 155. |
Campanella |
(15681639 AD) |
| 156. |
Vasudeva Sarvabhama |
(16th Century) |
| 157. |
Bohm Jacob |
(15751624 AD) |
| 158. |
Hobbes |
(15881679 AD) |
| 159. |
Gassendi |
(15921655 AD) |
| 160. |
Descartes |
(15961650 AD) |
| 161. |
John Locke |
(16321704 AD) |
| 162. |
Spinoza |
(16321677 AD) |
| 163. |
Newton |
(16421727 AD) |
| 164. |
Leibniz |
(16461716 AD) |
| 165. |
Bayle Pierre |
(16471706 AD) |
| 166. |
Berkeley |
(16851753 AD) |
| 167. |
Voiltaire |
(16941778 AD) |
| 168. |
Rousseau |
(17121778 AD) |
| 169. |
Alembert |
(17171783 AD) |
| 170. |
Kant |
(17241808 AD) |
| 171. |
Babeuf |
(17601797 AD) |
| 172. |
Saint Simon |
(17601825 AD) |
| 173. |
Fitche |
(17621814 AD) |
| 174. |
Dalton |
(17661844 AD) |
| 175. |
Hegel |
(17701831 AD) |
| 176. |
Robert Owen |
(17711858 AD) |
| 177. |
Fourier |
(17721837 AD) |
| 178. |
Charles Darwin |
(18081882 AD) |
| 179. |
Belinsky |
(18111848 AD) |
| 180. |
Kierkegard |
(18131855 AD) |
| 181. |
Karl Marx |
(18181883 AD) |
| 182. |
Frederick Engels |
(18201895 AD) |
| 183. |
Tolstoy |
(18281910 AD) |
| 184. |
Chernyshevsky |
(18281889 AD) |
| 185. |
Maxwell |
(18311879 AD) |
| 186. |
Nietzsche |
(18441900 AD) |
| 187. |
Freud |
(18561939 AD) |
| 188. |
Dewey |
(18591952 AD) |
| 189. |
Santyana |
(18631952 AD) |
| 190. |
Maxim Gorky |
(1868 AD) |
| 191. |
V. I. Lenin |
(18701924 AD) |
| 192. |
Rosa Luxemberg |
(18711919 AD) |
| 193. |
Karl Leibneikth |
- |
| 194. |
Betrand Russell |
(18721970 AD) |
| 195. |
Trotsky |
(18801939 AD) |
| 196. |
Jaspers |
(18831969 AD) |
| 197. |
Mussolini |
(18831945 AD) |
| 198. |
Hitler |
(18891945 AD) |
| 199. |
Ho Chi Min |
(18901969 AD) |
| 200. |
Mao Tse Tung |
(18931976 AD) |
| 201. |
Sartre |
(19051980 AD) |
| 202. |
Indira Gandhi |
- |
| 203. |
Ronald Reagan |
- |
| 204. |
Margaret Thatcher |
- |
| 205. |
Pinochet |
- |
| 206. |
Zia-ul-Haq |
- |
| 207. |
Sanjay Gandhi |
- |
| 208. |
George Bush Senior |
- |
| 209. |
Sadam Hussain |
- |
| 210. |
Boris Yeltsin |
- |
| 211. |
Laloo Yadav |
- |
| 212. |
Tony Blaire |
- |
| 213. |
Bill Clinton |
- |
| 214. |
Narendra Modi |
- |
| 215. |
Uma Bharati |
- |
| 216. |
George Bush |
- |
| 217. |
Ussama Bin Ladin |
- |
| 218. |
Veerapan |
- |
| 219. |
Sonia Gandhi |
- |
| 220. |
Manmohan Singh |
- |
| 221. |
Priyanka Gandhi |
- |
| 222. |
Rahul Gandhi |
- | | | |
Closing
Dates: 111 and
169180: 30th June 2011; 1216: 30th September
2011; 1720 and 181185: 31st December 2011; 2125
and 186189: 30th June 2011; 2630 and 190193:
31st December 2012; 3142: 30th June 2013; 4350:
31st December, 2013; 5160: 30th June 2014; 6170:
31st December, 2014; 7180: 30th June 2015; 8190:
31st December, 2015; 91100: 30th June 2016;
101110: 31st December, 2016; 111120: 30th June
2017; 121130: 31st December, 2017; 131140: 30th
June 2018; 141150: 31st December, 2018; 151160:
30th June 2019; 161168: 31st December, 2019;
194200: 30th June 2020; 201210: 31st December,
2020; and 211222: 30th June 2021.
The
decision of the Judges will be the final. The
organizers reserve the right to cancel any of the
above topics from the competition. Credit shall
be given to the factual content (60%), literary
presentation (20%), and simplicity and clarity of
language (20%).
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