It will be an honor for anybody to get addressed with a prefix of ‘Great.’ This is a label which shows our achievement or par excellence in any of the fields. Perhaps, after Mahatma Gandhi we have seen too many great people born on this earth or especially on our Indian soil. Here is an historical attempt began by popular National channels CNN IBN and History in association with Outlook magazine to conduct a survey and find ‘Who is The Greatest Indian after Mahatma Gandhi.’
Following a format created and launched by BBC, this opinion poll will be conducted to trace the ‘Greatest.’ Out of 100 iconic and influential personalities selected from various fields, jury finalized 50 and the list is shown below. What we need to do is, just visit www.thegreatestindian.in and vote our choice.
>The list is as follows:
>Dr B.R. Ambedkar
>Atal Behari Vajpayee
>Indira Gandhi
>Jawaharlal Nehru
>Jayaprakash Narayan
>Kanshi Ram
>Vallabhbhai Patel
>Rammanohar Lohia
>C. Rajagopalachari
>Baba Amte
>Mother Teresa
>Ela Bhatt
>Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
>Vinoba Bhave
>Pandit Ravi Shankar
>M.S. Subbulakshmi
>M.F. Husain
>Bismillah Khan
>R.K. Narayan
>R.K. Laxman
>Amitabh Bachchan
>Raj Kapoor
>Rajnikanth
>Satyajit Ray
>Lata Mangeshkar
>A.R. Rahman
>Kishore Kumar
>Dilip Kumar
>Dev Anand
>Mohammed Rafi
>Homi Bhabha
>Dhirubhai Ambani
>Verghese Kurien
>Ghanshyam Das Birla
>J.R.D. Tata
>N.R. Narayanamurthy
>Vikram Sarabhai
>M.S. Swaminathan
>A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
>Amartya Sen
>Ramnath Goenka
>Dr E. Sreedharan
>Sachin Tendulkar
>Vishwanathan Anand
>Kapil Dev
>Sunil Gavaskar
>Dhyan Chand
>Milkha Singh
>B.K.S. Iyengar
>Sam Manekshaw