Senior Physicist and Professor at IIT Kanpur - famous amongst Engineering graduates across the country for his 'Concepts of Physics' books

Sanskrit and Buddhist academician and author - Professor in Columbia University in America

Social Worker working for the specially-abled children of Kashmir for 2 decades - wheelchair-ridden himself from a bullet hit in militant attack

Senior Theatre artist - written, directed and performed in Hindi plays over 6 decades

Respected Mathematician and Senior Scientist - originally from Bihar (Posthumous)

Kathak dancer & choreographer from Indore - credited for creating a formal education system of the classical dance form

Veteran Gandhian Scholar and Freedom Fighter - former head of multiple Gandhian institutes and departments across Bhagalpur, Varanasi and Rajasthan

Veteran Ayurvedic Researcher and Professor - one of the foremost authorities on the Charaka Sahita

Apostle of Communal Harmony, Chacha Sharif - Bicycle mechanic who has performed the last rites of 25,000 unclaimed dead bodies over the last 25 years, irrespective of their religion

Veteran Doctor from Patna - serving for the past 5 decades, from a time when very few women were in the field