SWAMI AGNIVESH

Age: 72

Star sign: Virgo

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Indian Social worker

Claim to fame: Arya samaj scholar, hindu social activist

Agnivesh is an Indian social worker, self-titled Arya Samaj scholar, and a Hindu social activist. He is best known for his work against bonded labor through the Bonded Labor Liberation Front, which he founded in 1981. Agnivesh also founded and become president of the World Council of Arya Samaj, which he describes as an associate of the original Arya Samaj, and served as the chairperson of the United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery from 2001 to 2004.

Born as Shyam Vepa Rao on September 21, 1939, in Sakti, Chhattisgarh. Agnivesh received his degrees in Law and Economics in Calcutta thereafter he worked as a lecturer of Business Management at St. Xavier's College, Calcutta, from 1963 to 1968.