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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”. 
