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21 February
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Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar is born
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar, later founder-director and first Director General of CSIR and a major architect of India's scientific research infrastructure, was born on 21 February 1894.
This date is in the wider Indian-history calendar but does not yet have a dedicated Curious Indian article.