Machine generated contents note: 1.The Buddha: Waking India Up -- 2.Mahavira: Soldier of Non-violence -- 3.Panini: Catching the Ocean in a Cow's Hoofprint -- 4.Kautilya: The Ring of Power -- 5.Ashoka: Power as Persuasion -- 6.Charaka: On Not Violating Good Judgement -- 7.Aryabhata: The Boat of Intellect -- 8.Adi Shankara: A God without Qualities -- 9.Rajaraja Chola: Cosmos, Temple and Territory -- 10.Basava: A Voice in the Air -- 11.Amir Khusrau: The Parrot of India -- 12.Kabir: `Hey, you!' -- 13.Guru Nanak: The Discipline of Deeds -- 14.Krishnadevaraya: `Kingship is Strange' -- 15.Mirabai: I Go the Other Way -- 16.Akbar: The World and the Bridge -- 17.Malik Ambar: The Dark-fated One -- 18.Dara Shikoh: The Meeting-place of the Two Oceans -- 19.Shivaji: Dreaming Big -- 20.Nainsukh: Owner Transfixed by Goose -- 21.William Jones: Enlightenment Mughal -- 22.Rammohun Roy. `Humanity in General' -- 23.Lakshmi Bai, Rani of Jhansi: Bad-ass Queen -- 24.Jyotirao Phule: The Open Well --
Note continued: 25.Deen Dayal: Courtier with a Camera -- 26.Birsa Munda: `Have you been to Chalkad?' -- 27.Jamsetji Tata: Making India -- 28.Vivekananda: Bring All Together -- 29.Annie Besant: An Indian Tomtom -- 30.Chidambaram Pillai: Swadeshi Steam -- 31.Srinivasa Ramanujan: The Elbow of Genius -- 32.Tagore: Unlocking Cages -- 33.Visvesvaraya: Extracting Moonbeams from Cucumbers -- 34.Periyar: Sniper of Sacred Cows -- 35.Iqbal: Death for Falcons -- 36.Amrita Sher-Gil: This is Me -- 37.Subhas Chandra Bose: A Touch of the Abnormal -- 38.Gandhi: `In the Palm of our Hands' -- 39.Jinnah: The Chess Player -- 40.Manto: The Unsentimentalist -- 41.Ambedkar: Building Palaces on Dung Heaps -- 42.Raj Kapoor: The Politics of Love -- 43.Sheikh Abdullah: Chains of Gold -- 44.V. K. Krishna Menon: Sombre Porcupine -- 45.Subbulakshmi: Opening Rosebuds -- 46.Indira Gandhi: The Centre of Everything -- 47.Satyajit Ray: India without Elephants -- 48.Charan Singh: A Common Cause --
Note continued: 49.M. F. Husain: `Hindustan is Free'
50.Dhirubhai Ambani: Fins.