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Do You Know The Nicknames Of These Famous Indian Personalities And Places:
- Dadabhai Naoroji is also known as grand old man of India.
- Gurudev and kaviguru were the nicknames given to Rabindranath Tagore.
- Lal Bahadur Shastri is fondly known as “ Man of Peace”.
- Subhash Chandra Bose was also addressed as “ Netaji”
- Kapil Dev is fondly called as “ Haryana Hurricane”.
- Nightingale of India was the nickname given to the first woman Governor of a state in a free India, Sarojini Naidu.
- Jawaharlal Nehru is fondly remembered as either Panditji or Chacha.
- Prince of Kolkata is the title given to Saurav Ganguly.
- Mother Teresa is synonymous to “ Saint of the gutters”.
- Lala Lajpat Rai is popularly known as “ Punjab Kesari”.
- Deenabandhu and Deshbandhu were the nicknames given to C.F Andrews and C.R. Das respectively.
- Badshah Khan or frontier Gandhi were the names given to Abdul Ghaffar Khan.
- Lokmanya and loknayak are the nicknames names of Bal Gangadhar Tilak and jayaprakash Nayak respectively.
- Our father of nation , Mohandas karamchand Gandhi is also fondly referred as Mahatma Gandhi.
- C Rajgopalachari, the first and the last Indian to be governor general of free India is also remembered as “ Rajaji”.
- Siddharth Gautma the founder of Buddhism is fondly known as Buddha already.
- Anna was the nickname given to CN Annadurai.
- MS Golwalkar is fondly remembered as “ Guruji”.
- Sachin Tendulkar often referred to as “ the god of Cricket” and “ master blaster”.
- Rohit Sharma is popularly known as “RO-HIT”.
- Mahendra Singh Dhoni is fondly called as “ mahi” or the “captain cool”.
- SOBRIQUETS or nicknames of PLACES:
- Nilgiri Hills which is located in Tamil Nadu is also known as Blue Mountain.
- Amritsar which is in Punjab is also known as “ City of Golden Temple”.
- Kolkata , West Bengal is also referred as City of palaces and city of joy.
- Garden of india is our kashmir and garden City of India is Bengaluru.
- Surat which is in Gujarat is known as the Diamond City of India.
- Kerela is also known as Spice Garden of India.
- Bengaluru in Karnataka is popularly referred as Silicon Valley Of India.
- Queen of Arabian Sea is the nickname given to kochi.
- Kerela is also known as God's own Country.
- Mumbai , Maharashtra which is the finance capital of India is also known as “ gateway of India”.
- Chandigarh is also called “ the planned city of India”.
- Punjab is also known as the land of five rivers.
- Jaipur in rajasthan is referred as the “ pink City” and jodhpur as “ Blue city”.
