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.