Rukmini Devi Arundale biography: born in 1904, she brought Bharatanatyam on to the modern stage, founded Kalakshetra and piloted India's law against…
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay biography: born in 1903, the freedom fighter and socialist led the revival of India's handicrafts, handlooms and theatre after independence.
B. V. Doshi biography: born in Pune in 1927, the architect who trained under Le Corbusier became in 2018 the first Indian…
Charles Correa biography: born in 1930, the architect of the Gandhi memorial at Sabarmati and chief planner of Navi Mumbai shaped modern…
Arunachalam Muruganantham biography: the school dropout from Coimbatore invented a low-cost machine for making sanitary pads and inspired the film Pad Man.
Vinoba Bhave biography: born in 1895, Gandhi's spiritual heir walked across India for thirteen years asking landowners to give land to the…
Dadasaheb Phalke biography: born in 1870, he made Raja Harishchandra, India's first full-length feature film, in 1913 and is known as the…
Bindeshwar Pathak biography: born in Bihar in 1943, the founder of Sulabh International built low-cost toilets across India and worked to end…
Govindappa Venkataswamy biography: born in 1918, the eye surgeon known as Dr V founded Aravind Eye Hospital at 58 and created a…
Sunderlal Bahuguna biography: born in Tehri Garhwal in 1927, the Gandhian environmentalist carried the message of the Chipko movement across the Himalaya…
T. N. Seshan biography: born in Palakkad in 1932, the civil servant who was Chief Election Commissioner from 1990 to 1996 transformed…
Tansen biography: the sixteenth-century singer from Gwalior, one of the nine jewels of Akbar's court, is regarded as the greatest musician in…
