21st Century Heroes of India

Heroes of India from what perspective?

From the perspective of

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

and other Indian Constitutional Values

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Professor Dr Apoorvananda

Dr Raj Arole and Dr (Mrs) Mabelle Arole
Rana Ayyub

Sundarlal Bahuguna

Himayat Baig

Pratik Bandyopadhyay

Indian Navy’s retired Commodore, Lokesh Batra

Bishan Singh Bedi

Sudha Bharadwaj


Tarun Bhartiya

Sanjiv Bhatt IPS

Justice Jyotirmay Bhattacharya

Prashant Bhushan

Praful Bidwai

Bilkis

D S Bindra

Brijgopal Harkishan Loya
 

Judge Aparesh Chakravarty

Justice D.Y Chandrachud

Justice J. Chelameswar

Didi Contractor

Narendra Dabholkar

S. R. Darapuri

Dushyant Dave

John Dayal

Niranjana Desai  

G
Ganesh Devy

Ashok Sopan Dhole

Arundhati Dhuru

P. V. Dinesh

H.S Doreswamy

Padma Shri Barkha Dutt


Afreen Fatima
Gulfisha Fatima

Prakash Gajbhiye

Dr Ken Gnanakan

Akhil Gogoi

Kannan Gopinathan, ex-IAS

Paranjoy Guha


Justice Deepak Gupta


Tanuja Gupta

Meeran Haider

Shabnam Hashmi
Shabnam Hashmi


Shafique Ul Hassan

Sharjeel Imam

Shamsul Islam

Ishrat Jahan

M M Kalburgi

Devangana Kalita

Justice K. Kannan


Siddique Kappan

Hemant Karkare

Justice Markandey Katju

Rachna Khaira

Dr. Umar Khalid

Jaswant Singh Khalra

Mohammad Faisal Khan

Dr. Kafeel Khan

Mohammed Chengiz Khan

Justice H. R. Khanna

V. N. Khare, former Chief Justice of India

Agnes Kharshiing

 

Virat Kohli

Virat Kohli

 

Ivan Kostka

Arun Kumar

Justice Shylendra Kumar

Dr Verghese Kurien

Gauri Lankesh

Justice Madan B. Lokur


Devanur Mahadeva

Devjibhai Maheshwari

Harsh Mander

Vishal Mangalwadi

Manjul

Jignesh Mevani

Abhijit Mishra

Shaheen Mistri

javed mohammed
Javed Mohammed

Shubha Mudgal
Shubha Mudgal

Akshaya Mukul

Justice S. Muralidhar retired Chief Justice of the Orissa High Court

Justice Muralidharan, Delhi High Court

Smita Nair

Sunita Narain

Fali S Nariman


Pandu Narote

Mahavir Narwal

Natasha Narwal

Gautam Navlakha

Veerabhadra Channamalla Swamiji of the Nidumamidi

Rohini Nilekani 

A G Noorani

Sandeep Pandey

Govind Pansare

The Right Honorable The Lord Parekh

Aakar Patel

Medha Patkar

Anand Patwardhan

Dr Iris Paul

Professor C. K. Prahalad

Azim Premji

Ram Puniyani

Dr. Lenin Raghuvanshi


Madhulika Rajput

Kanshi Ram

Rajshri Ranawat

Varvara Rao

M. A. Rashid

Disha Ravi

Dr. Partho Sarothi Ray

Gauhar Raza

Shifa-Ur-Rehman

Aruna Roy

Arundhati Roy

Bunker Roy

Justice Rajindar Sachar

G. N. Saibaba

Khalid Saifi

P. Sainath

Pallavi Saluja

Mallika Sarabhai

Gilbert Sebastian

Shoma Sen

IAS Sasikanth Senthil

Teesta Setalvad

Nitin Sethi

Justice A.P. Shah

Abhisar Sharma

Supriya Sharma

Irom Chanu Sharmila

Professor Dr Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd

Arfa Khanum Sherwani

Dr Vandana Shiva

Shukla-Avay
Avay Shukla

The Rt Hon Professor The Lord Sikka

Dilip Simeon

Rohini Singh

Dr Raj Sisodia

Soni Sori

Justice Hosbet Suresh

Stan Swamy

Asif Iqbal Tanha

Anand Teltumbde

Thampu-Valson
The Revd. Professor Dr. Valson Thampu

Romila Thapar

anson thomas
Anson Thomas


Joginder Singh Ugrahan

Sharjeel Usmani

Achin Vanaik

Sidharth Vardarajan

Satish Verma dismissed a month before retirement
Satish Chandra Verma, IPS

Rona Wilson

Masrat Zahra

Safoora Zargar

Mohammed Zubair
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