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Grain of Truth
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Vikram Sarabhai
By Ashok Parthasarathi He devised India's space programme and defined the role of scientists and scientific institutions.
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Molecule Man
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Homi Bhabha
By Bikash Sinha The father of India's atomic energy programme, his love for art was just as great, if not more
Early Genius
S. RAMANUJAN (1887-1920): This mathemagician died young. But in a span of 33 years, he came up with his theory of divergent series, modestly filled in frayed notebooks, considered invaluable by mathematicians even today. It took G.H. Hardy, a professor at Cambridge University, to recognise his genius and provide him with an opportunity to pursue his interests -- Ramanujan spent four years in London honing his skills. His work, based on the number theory and probability theory, among others, has opened up avenues for further research in computer sciences, statistics and physics. And this man failed his matriculation exam, had his scholarship withdrawn and was constantly reprimanded by his father for scribbling on sheets . SATYENDRA NATH BOSE (1894-1974): When as a 22-yearold physicist he joined the University College of Science, Calcutta, he knew he had to do something different. He did. He worked on statistical, theoretical concepts that could explain radiation, followed up by discovering particles that confirmed them. They are called bosons after him. To this day, scientists refer to Bose-Einstein statistics, which explains the behaviour of small particles that are smaller than atoms. However, the greatest contribution of this man, who worked with Marie Curie and Albert Einstein for a year each, was the amount of time he ungrudgingly spent with students and researchers, and on taking science to the masses. C.V. RAMAN (1888-1970): Old Calcutta. 210 Bowbazaar Street. The Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
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Welfare Wizard
Amartya Sen
By S Subramanian 1933: Born in Santiniketan. 1943: Bengal Famine. Marks the beginning of a life-time commitment to the study of deprivation and disparity. 1956: BA, Trinity College, Cambridge. 1959: MA, Ph.D at Trinity. 1963: Professor of Economics, Delhi School of Economics. 1971-77: Professor of Economics, London School of Economics. 1980-88: Drummond Professor of Political Economy, Oxford. 1988-1997: Lamont University professor; Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard. 1998: Master, Trinity College; Awarded Nobel Prize for Economics. 1960-1999: Major publications: Choice of Techniques, Collective Choice and Social Welfare; on Economic Equality, Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation; Inequality Re-examined; Development and Freedom.
Amartya Sen is, inarguably, the most distinguished economist India has ever produced. Some of the major events of his career are highlighted in the accompanying box. If the list therein is exiguous, it's because life is governed by such unpleasant realities as word limits. An accurate and exhaustive catalogue would closely follow the contours of H. Hatterr's capacious fantasy: "... fellow of the royal geographical, humane, automobile, asiatic, astronomical and microscopic societies ..." With Sen, it has been a case of life imitating art. As part of the brief given to this writer, it was delicately suggested that he should steer clear of unrestrained panegyrics. Since one's objectivity is on the line, one takes it that some element of negative criticism of the subject is called for in the interests of completeness and balance. To this end, it may be useful to resort to Sen's own technique of enumeration. Firstly, for all of the wonderful lucidity of his exposition, some of his formal papers, with their trademark combination of fine-grained logic, minute differentiations, and trickily nuanced arguments, can tax the patience and stamina of even his most devoted students: indeed, a fellow-economist was one provoked to describing him, with some asperity, as "that distinguished distinguisher". Secondly, while Sen has always been a generous and courteous critic of the work of others, he has also been known to be a stubborn and at times prickly defender of his own viewpoint against the criticism of others (as opponents of his work on liberty, for example, will testify wryly). One is here reminded of the exhortation, addressed to an unyielding dissenter, by an ally of that redoubtable rhetorician h*y*m*a*n k*a*p*l*a*n: "Give an inch, Shimmelfarb!" Thirdly, and finally, I believe it would be a great kindness to Professor Sen to suggest that his handwriting is execrable. Surely nobody can now accuse this writer of bias. A remarkable facet of Sen's research output has been the range and versatility of its coverage. He has worked not only in economics but also in philosophy; and in crossing disciplinary borders, he has
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Life Line
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Mother Teresa
By Navin Chawla 1910: Agnes Goinxha Bejaxhiu born in South Yugoslavia. 1928: Joins congregation of Loreto nuns at Rathurnham in Ireland. 1929: Sails to Calcutta to join the Bengal Mission, a Loreto centre. 1942: Nursed the famine-ridden and the sick during the War. 1946: On a train she realises her true calling to help the poor and live with them. 1950: Starts Missionaries of Charity, Calcutta. 1962-83: Expands the Missionaries' work. 1979: Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 1997: Dies in Calcutta
Crusaders
VINAYAK NARAHARI BHAVE (1895-1982): The boy who took a vow of celibacy at 10, the 21-year-old who decided to go to Surat to study scriptures mid-way through a train journey to Mumbai where he was to take up his intermediate exams, the self-taught polyglot -- there are many interesting faces to this social activist. But Vinoba Bhave (seen here with prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri) will be remembered most for his Bhoodan movement of 1951 under which millions of acres of land, donated by landowners, were distributed among the landless in states like Bihar and Uttar Pradesh -- it lost momentum later. As he will for his tireless campaign for the Harijans and the leprosy-afflicted. MURLIDAR DEVIDAS AMTE (Born 1914): He has seen beauty in the ruins of men laid waste by leprosy and battled against incredible odds to nurse them back to health. He has also thrown his might behind the Narmada Bachao Andolan. Having established Anandwan -- the giant rehabilitation complex for those afflicted with leprosy in Chandrapur, Maharashtra -- he is now camping in the submergence zone of the Sardar Sarovar project. Failing health hasn't deterred this 85-year-old, who says, "I have cured the leprosy of the body. Now I have to cure the leprosy of the mind."
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Spiritual Revivalist
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Sri Aurobindo
By Karan Singh Through his writings and teachings he linked a revolutionary appeal for India's independence with spiritualism that still stirs
Osho Rajneesh
(1931-1990): When history lines up the saints and mahatmas of India, Bhagwan Rajneesh-Zorba-Osho's name will go missing. When the rogues and charlatans are lined up, he will not be in the parade. He certainly won't be there in the long list of philosophers and thinkers this country will lay claim to. And yet, his is perhaps the most unavoidable of names in a list of Indians who mattered. The Bhagwan from Kuchwada, the King of Kooch-bhi-Nahi, the swami of self-indulgence, moved from Manali to Pune to Oregon and back to Pune just as easily as he moved between the thoughts of Lao Tzu, Mahavir and Buddha. Along the way he dissolved the pain and confusion of his followers. He turned himself into a sociobionic switchboard, taking people from Beverly Hills and Bandra to the doorstep of nirvana. When Rajneesh Chandra Mohan decided to market his dream, he used Plato as effectively as Khushwant Singh's jokes to win people. Hounded out of India for his unconventional ways, he built a fantastic commune in Oregon where he was finally booked on 35 counts by the law for immigration violations, conspiracy and other allegations. By the time he fled the US, he claimed he had been poisoned. In between, he had built an empire spanning discotheques, publishing, health-food stores and bakeries worth billions. In his time, Osho created a band of followers from across the world who brought him great riches, fame and comfort, not to speak of plentiful sex on the side. In return, he left behind a legacy that is difficult to explain. Osho may have tried to create a religion -- no one can be too sure. He left too soon for the scattered sex partners to become priests; and it is yet too early for his meditations to become rituals, for his RollsRoyces to become sacred talismans, for his word to become holy writ. He may have been a cult leader -- but every cult dies with its creator. And yet, something called the Osho legacy survives -- in Pune, organically growing worldwide. And is seeping across the Internet. His followers cling to every word he spoke on video, giving him the distinction of being the world's first VHS guru. One day, his following may reach critical mass to spawn a spectacle that none can imagine. Not even Osho in his life time. Arun Katiyar is chief operating officer, India Today group online
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Sunderlal Bahuguna
If work on the Tehri hydel project in the Tehri Garhwal region in Uttar Pradesh has not made much headway, it is largely because of this man's anti-dam campaign. For him, the struggle has a mystical dimension, the thought that the Ganga could be dammed hurts his religious sentiments. But long before he undertook his marathon fasts to save those displaced by the project, he was part of the Chipko movement, walking barefoot from village to village, mobilising public opinion. He travelled round the year, covering even Nepal and Bhutan. On behalf of the Save Himalaya Movement, he is currently fighting for some 2,000 school- children who have to travel a distance of 44 km each day since their schools have been shifted from Tehri to New Tehri.
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The Baron
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Ramnath Goenka
By Saeed Naqvi 1904: Born in a Marwari business family in Bihar. 1926: Becomes a member of the Congress. 1932: Starts a printing press in Chennai; launches the Free Press of India (Madras) Ltd; and The Indian Express. 1940s: Consolidates empire with 35 newspaper editions, magazines. 1975: Press censorship with Emergency. Resists attempts to take over his newspaper. Campaign against the Congress continues till the end. 1977: He helps the Janata Party in its election strategy. 1991: Dies in Mumbai.
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Ela Bhatt
By Jaya Jaitly 1933: Born in Ahmedabad. 1972-96: Founder and general secretary of SEWA, Ahmedabad. It began as a trade union and grew into a women's movement. 1974: Starts the SEWA bank and pioneers the micro-finance programmes in India. The bank grants women low-interest loans for entrepreneurial activity. Since 1985: Chair, Women's World Banking, New York. 1990: Receives Women in Creation Award, Alliance de Femme, Paris. Since 1992: Member, executive committee, International Union of Food and Allied Workers, Geneva. 1994: Care Humanitarian Award, Washington, DC. 1995: Hillary Clinton visits SEWA, Ahmedabad, to gain insight into its functioning.
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Verghese Kurien
By P.M.Shingi He Changed th face of India's dairy industry with a model cooperative programme
Satish Dhawan
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Satish Dhawan
By Roddam Narasimha He Showed how space technology could be built in India by Indians
Bombmeister
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Raja Ramanna
By Raj Chengappa He effortlessly orchestratd the making of the Indian atomic bomb
Techno Yogi
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A.P.J.Abdul Kalam
By Raj Chengappa The guidling force behind India's missiles and nuclear weapons
May 11, 1998: A Gorkha hat hides his long hair in his disguise as an army officer in the Rajasthan desert. Then the earth shakes and with it, the world as India conducts a series of underground tests. The scientist is lauded as the guiding force behind the nuclear- weapons programme. Dreams are important for the scientist whose name is as long as his achievements: Avul Pakir Jainulabddin Abdul Kalam. He says simply,"Dream dreams because dreams lead to thought and thought leads to action." In his case it has always led to extraordinary action. Many of his peers twit him for bombastic statements and for shifting targets in whatever he achieved. They question both his scientific and intellectual acumen. Or scoff that all his doctoral degrees are honorary. But science is not all about formulas and test tubes. Or just plain genius. It's also about converting ideas into concrete realities that revolutionise the way we live or think about ourselves. However illogical this may seem, it is also about instinct, innovation and sheer perspiration. Kalam is an inspirational figure not just because he demonstrates that merit can succeed and thrive amidst so much cynicism and nepotism. Or that among a people riven with religious strife, a Muslim could head India's most sensitive defence projects. More important Kalam's achievement is of an integrator of science who from an apparently mediocre team churned out awesome excellence. In short, he delivered. His life and mission is a vindication of what a determined person can achieve against extraordinary odds. Born to a poor boat-owner's family in Ramnathapuram, Kalam sold newspapers to pay his fees and pawned his sister's jewellery to complete a diploma in engineering. Early in life he demonstrated a capacity for hard work and a will to succeed. It is exhausting to track Kalam's progress. In the '60s and '70s he was a trail blazer in the space department. In the '80s he transformed the moribund Defence Research and
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Jadunath Sarkar
By Premen Addy His narrativs argued for an India as an independent centre of learning, yet open to outside influences.
D.D.Kosambi
(1907-1966): Depending on how you see it, this former professor of mathematics at Pune University revolutionised historiography in India -- or subverted it. To generations of academics, it is obviously the former. Before Kosambi, history was little more than a narrative of names and dynasties at best and a melange of myths at worst. That's when Kosambi (An Introduction to the Study of Indian History, 1956) brought a scientific temper, the analytical tools of Marxism and created an entire tradition of social history. Suddenly, the past had a new future.
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