India Today's 60 Greatest Indians of 20th Century - Issue 21 April 2008

List of the 60 greatest Indians

Amartya Sen — Global Indian
Mulk Raj Anand — Free radical
Amrita Sher-Gill — Brush with beauty
Munshi Premchand — Pen drive writer
C.N. Annadurai — Letter and spirit
Jawaharlal Nehru — The architect
Baba Amte — Man of action
P.C. Mahalanobis — The plan man
Bal Gangadhar Tilak — Street fighter
Dhundiraj Govind Phalke — First showman
B.C. Roy — Bengal tiger
Ravi Shankar — Sultan of string
Begum Akhtar — Queen of melody
Prakash Padukone — Feather touch
Bhagat Singh — The patriot
R.K. Narayan — Tale spinner
S.S. Bhatnagar — The catalyst
Raj Kapoor — Dynasty’s child
Bhimsen Joshi — Song and trance
Raja Ravi Varma — Royal touch
Bimal Roy — Romantic realist
Raja Ram Mohan Roy — The modernist
Bismillah Khan — The enchanter
Raja Ramanna — The energiser
B.R. Ambedkar — Eternal fighter
Rajendra Prasad — Son of the soil
C.V. Raman — Bright spark
S. Ramanujan — Perfect equation
Dhirubhai Ambani — Guru of growth
Ramnath Goenka — The kingmaker
Dhyan Chand — Sorcerer’s score
Rukmini Devi Arundale — Poetry in motion
E.M.S. Namboodiripad — The pragmatist
Sarojini Naidu — Civil crusader
Homi Bhabha — Nuclear maharaja
S. Radhakrishnan — Guiding light
Indira Gandhi — Triumph of will
Sachin Tendulkar — Beyond the boundary
J.C. Bose — Ahead of the curve
Sam Manekshaw — Warrior king
Jayaprakash Narayan — Lead factor
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel — Iron in his soul
J.R.D. Tata — Steel in his spine
Satyajit Ray — Universal eye
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam — The visionary
Subhas Chandra Bose — Supreme soldier
Lata Mangeshkar — Voice of India
S. Tripathi Nirala — Freedom’s verse
Ram Manohar Lohia — The provocateur
Rabindranath Tagore — At home in the world
M.S. Subbulakshmi — Endless echo
Viswanathan Anand — Lightning kid
M.S. Swaminathan — Roots of change
Verghese Kurien — White knight
Mahatma Gandhi — To Bapu, with love
A.B. Vajpayee — Renaissance man
Milkha Singh — Fast and gentle
Vikram Sarabhai — Master mind
Mother Teresa — Mission possible
Zubin Mehta — Baron of baton

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According to me the notable omissions are religious leaders and founders and developers of RSS.

Mentioning Lohia, Anndurai and not mentioning RSS founder is totally irrational. Even Kanshiram should have made this list.

I invite readers to give their comments