Jama Masjid, the 'World-Reflecting Mosque' really reflected the world today in 2006 with two bombings that injured not just people, but the very soul of humanity.

Najma Heptullah has been a 'People before Party' person with her defection and affiliations not guiding her work, but rather a spirit of goodwill

The story of a storyteller who wielded his pen to de-construct power and later tried to link it to the ordinary essence of everyday humans and their lives

A little-known fact about the film industry is that its capital lay not in Mumbai but Kolkata at one point in time. During that era, Kundan Lal Saigal, an actor, and singer, was considered a superstar and one of the first in the Hindi movie industry.

Padma Bhushan Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai started writing from a very young age on realist issues. No wonders he wrote 600 short stories and 30 novels in his life, centred around the life of the oppressed. Today in 1999, he went for his final sleep.

From calling Modi "the nation's father", to her songs for social causes, Amruta Fadnavis has made a name for herself. This former First Lady of the State keeps making headlines one way or the other.

A man who moved a valley with his words, Mahjoor's poetry can be summed up with: Love, reform, and harmony.

For a person exposed only to devotional Gujrati Folklore while growing up, this versatile Musician who works with jazz, rock, indie, and Bollywood, Trivedi, has come a long way in the Indian Musical scene with many prestigious accolades to his name.

The man who brought Indian classical music to the world stage with aided by his friend George Harrison from the Beatles, Shankar left a legacy of a maestro.

A national influence who shaped India's trade unions and fought against injustice, B.T Randive was also one of the prominent leaders of the Communist Party of India and struggled to birth a society free from the oppressions of caste and class.