$$$Indian Heroes$$$

At 60 independent, secular, and pluralistic India finds itself, by any objective yardstick, stronger than it was at 50. It is a relatively young independent nation. Its biggest achievement as an independent modern country is its vibrant political democracy. Its biggest deficit is its inability over six decades to overcome the largest mass of poverty and deprivations in the world.....
!!!!!!!!!!! "Rising India" is a work in progress.!!!!!!!!!!!

India has produced several famous personalities that have excelled in their field. These Indian heroes have battled against all odds and have reached the pinnacle of success by their courage, determination and perseverance. Their lives have inspired a whole generation of Indians and continue to inspire millions of Indians and others all around the world.

Here is a list of few such Indian Heroes. These include people from all walks of life freedom fighters, leaders, scientists, litterateurs, writers, painters, musicians, social reformers and entrepreneurs.

Indian Leaders

Mahatma Gandhi, Indira Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Annie Besant, Aruna Asaf Ali, Aurobindo Ghose, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, Chandrashekhar Azad, Dadabhai Naoroji, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Jawaharlal Nehru, Lala Lajpat Rai, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Motilal Nehru, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Rajiv Gandhi, Sardar Patel, Sarojini Naidu, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Subhas Chandra Bose, Veer Savarkar, Kasturba Gandhi, Madam Cama, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, Sucheta Kriplani, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit.

Indian Entrepreneurs

Dhirubhai Ambani, JRD Tata, Adi Godrej, Anil Ambani, Dr. K. Anji Reddy, Azim Premji, Bhai Mohan Singh, B.M. Munjal, Ekta Kapoor, Ghanshyam Das Birla, Karsanbhai Patel, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, K.P. Singh, Kumar Mangalam Birla, Lalit Suri, M.S. Oberoi, Mukesh Ambani, Nandan Nilekani, Narayana Murthy, Naresh Goyal, Dr. Pratap Reddy, Rahul Bajaj, Ramalinga Raju, Ratan Tata, Raunaq Singh, Shiv Nadar, Subhash Chandra, Subroto Roy, Sunil Mittal, Tulsi Tanti, Verghese Kurien, Vijay Mallya, Mallika Srinivasan, Naina Lal Kidwai, Shahnaz Hussain, Sulajja Firodia Motwani.
Indian Singers

Alisha Chinai, Alka Yagnik, Asha Bhosle, Lata Mangeshkar, Shubha Mudgal, A.R.Rahman,Kishore Kumar, Hariharan, K.J.Yesudas, S.P.Balasubramanyam, Udit Narayan, Talat Mahmood.

Indian Film Personalities
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Dimple Kapadia, Jaya Bachchan, Kajol, Madhubala, Madhuri Dixit, Nargis, Preity Zinta, Rani Mukherjee, Rekha, Shabana Azmi, Sharmila Tagore, Smita Patil, Sri Devi, Sushmita Sen, Akshay Kumar, Amitabh Bacchan, Amrish Puri, ANR, Ashok Kumar, Dilip Kumar..and many more to list out....

Indian Classical Dancers

Mallika Sarabhai, Shovana Narayan, Sonal Mansingh, Yamini Krishnamurthy.

Indian Musicians

Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Bhimsen Joshi, Birju Maharaj, Bismillah Khan, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Pandit Jasraj, MS Subbulakshmi, Ravi Shankar, Shiv Kumar Sharma, Zakir Hussain.

Indian Painters

Amrita Shergill, Jamini Roy, Raja Ravi Varma, MF Hussain, Tyeb Mehta.

Indian Scientists

C.V. Raman, Homi Bhabha, Jagdish Chandra Bose, Meghnad Saha, M. Visvesvaraya, Satyendra Nath Bose, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Vikram Sarabhai.

Social Reformers

Dayanand Saraswati, Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Ramakrishna Paramhansa, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Swami Vivekananda, Vinoba Bhave, Kiran Bedi, Medha Patkar, Shanta Sinha.

Writers

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Premchand, Rabindranath Tagore, Anita Desai, Arundhati Roy, Jhumpa Lahiri, Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan, Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth, V.S. Naipaul, Kiran Desai, Mahadevi Varma, Shashi Deshpande, Shobha De.

Others

Raj Kapoor, Satyajit Ray, Tenzing Norgay, Amritanandamayi, Mirabai,Sister Nivedita, Begum Hazrat Mahal, Rani Lakshmi Bai.

Though we knew them already...Letzzz...remember them on this eve of India's 60 years of Independence....