Senior Playback singer - sung in multiple languages in a career spanning over 4 decades

Founder Chairman and CEO of Symphony Technology Group - US-based private equity firm operating at the cutting-edge of software, internet and technology

Imminent Sanskrit Scholar and Author - contributing to the ancient language for over 7 decades

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