The Buddha : Waking India Up

Mahavira : Soldier of Non-Violence

Panini : Catching the Ocean in a Cow's Hoofprint

Kautilya : The Ring of Power

Ashoka : Power as Persuasion

Charaka : On Not Violating Good Judgment

Aryabhata : The Boat of Intellect

Adi Shankara : A God Without Qualities

Rajaraja Chola : Cosmos, Temple, and Territory

Basava : A Voice in the Air

Amir Khusrau : The Parrot of India

Kabir : "Hey, You!"

Guru Nanak : The Discipline of Deeds

Krishnadevaraya : "Kingship Is Strange"

Mirabai : I Go the Other Way

Akbar : The World and the Bridge

Malik Ambar : The Dark-Fated One

Dara Shikoh : The Meeting-Place of the Two Oceans

Shivaji : Dreaming Big

Nainsukh : Owner Transfixed by Goose

William Jones : Enlightenment Mughal

Rammohun Roy : "Humanity in General"

Lakshmi Bai, Rani of Jhansi: Bad-Ass Queen

Jyotirao Phule : The Open Well

Deen Daya : Courtier with a Camera

Birsa Munda : "Have You Been to Chalkad?"

Jamsetji Tata : Making India

Vivekananda : Bring All Together

Annie Besant : An Indian Tomtom

Chidambaram Pillai : Swadeshi Steam

Srinivasa Ramanujan : The Elbow of Genius

Tagore : Unlocking Cages

Visvesvaraya : Extracting Moonbeams from Cucumbers

Periyar : Sniper of Sacred Cows

Iqbal : Death for Falcons

Amrita Sher-Gil : This Is Me

Subhas Chandra Bose : A Touch of the Abnormal

Gandhi : "In the Palm of Our Hands"

Jinnah : The Chess Player

Manto : The Unsentimentalist

Ambedkar : Building Palaces on Dung Heaps

Raj Kapoor : The Politics of Love

Sheikh Abdullah : Chains of Gold

V.K. Krishna Menon : Sombre Porcupine

Subbulakshmi : Opening Rosebuds

Indira Gandhi : The Center of Everything

Satyajit Ray: India Without Elephants

Charan Singh : A Common Cause

M.F. Husain : "Hindustan Is Free"

Dhirubhai Ambani : Fins.