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…
Sam Pitroda biography: born in Odisha in 1942, the engineer returned from the United States in 1984 to found C-DOT and is…
Rahat Indori biography: born in Indore in 1950, the Urdu poet and film lyricist was the biggest draw at mushairas for decades…
Shankar Dayal Sharma biography: born in Bhopal in 1918, the scholar and Congress leader was the ninth President of India, from 1992…
