ICONS Men and Women Who Shaped Today's India by Anil Dharker (ed.)

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ICONS Men and Women Who Shaped Today's India

by Anil Dharker (ed.)

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The past six decades have been the most eventful in the history of what we today know as India. From an acutely impoverished, but resilient, nation in 1947 to a touted economic superpower in the making today, India has evolved splendidly. Working hard towards attaining this makeover were men and women whose achievements have left indelible marks on India's growth as a nation. Icons: Men and Women who shaped today's India is a tribute to some of these great people. Icons is a collection of essays on some of India's greatest living legends who have made significant contributions to their respective fields, from art to politics to cinema to medicine to science and technology. These include the likes of APJ Abdul Kalam, Ratan Tata, Prannoy Roy, and Zubin Mehta. Some of the essays in this book are simply summarised biographies of these legends, written by people who have either worked in close association with them or have followed their lives and work closely. However, there are other essays, such as the one on Baba Amte (who passed away shortly after the release of this book) by Darryl D'Monte, which are more than just a treatise on their lives and take the reader a step further into understanding their contributions to changing the face of modern India. It is, perhaps, a matter of personal judgement, but there are certain figures featured in this book whose inclusion seems a bit undeserved and several others whose exclusion seems a bit unfair. Also, one can only wonder why cricket dominates the Indian sports landscape so much that the only two iconic figures representing Indian sports in this book are Sunil Gavaskar and Sachin Tendulkar.

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