My vote goes to “Dr B R Ambedkar” for his contribution for our country.
This man came from a family who belonged to community which was treated so badly by uppercaste Hindus which has no parallel injustice.
Still he stood to all those injustice impound upon him and showed all those so called uppercaste that they are wrong.
At that time there was no parallel scholar compared to him.
There are no sufficient words to describe his contribution.
I don’t even think that all the nominees are even near to him for this competition. All others are really great and there contribution is also huge, but you cannot put “Dr Ambedkar” with this people, his contribution is far great and big that any one else here.
I request all the voters please have the knowledge of history do read the worlds history each nominees background and work and then vote.

- Dr S Nanir

He represents all that is Indian. He’s tolerant, patient, spiritual, sensitive, emotional, celebratory, colourful, spicy, gullible, peace-loving, forgiving, forgetting, foolish, trusting, warm, caring, hopeful, loyal, disorganized, chaotic, divergent …..

But what make him the greatest?

For centuries he has absorbed tyranny, invasions, divisive rulers, corrupt leaders and insensitive governments and yet maintains a faith and expectation from the ruling class that one day there will be Ramrajya, a king like Mahabali or an emperor like Akbar – that’s what makes him the greatest.

Even when faced and challenged by religious propaganda of all kinds and colours, despite violent, persuasive, enticing or intimidatory tactics, he has maintained an amazing tolerance for all forms of faiths – that’s what makes him the greatest.

Every single day of his life he struggles for his basic survival and that of his family. He constantly strives to make his life and that of his family better. Every day he faces unemployment, inflation, lack of basic amenities, wrath of the elements, apathy, exploitation … and yet sleeps in peace at night hoping for a better tomorrow – that’s what makes him the greatest.

Despite rising selfishness and self-centeredness in the world, despite the culture of competitive and individual pursuit of wealth, despite being faced by an increasing isolation of people from one another, he will still respectfully look after his old, ailing parents or his unemployed brother and he will still stand for and help his neighbour and brother in their times of need – that’s what makes him the greatest.

In an ever-increasing environment of an emphasis on the material and physical, despite peer pressure, despite the fruits of technology and modernity becoming overly tempting and seductive, he still finds value and dignity in honesty and honour and he still maintains a need to fulfill the needs of his spiritual self – that’s what makes him the greatest.

Despite being cheated, conned, deceived, swindled, defrauded, duped, tricked, taken advantage of. Despite witnessing an increasingly untrustworthy world, he still finds reason to trust his fellow human – that’s what makes him the greatest.

Even in his sorely pathetic condition, helplessness and emasculated life, he finds fulfillment in the fantastic accomplishments of celluloid heroes, soap-opera characters and cricketing gladiators. Even in the darkest of times he will find a source of light, even in the most pitiable and sorrowful seasons he will find reason to smile – that’s what makes him the greatest.

While the world wallows in the sorrows of economic meltdowns, recessions, wars, violence, crime, uncertain future, trauma of globalization … While constantly in the midst of grumbles, protests, criticisms, grievances, objections, moans and cries he still finds reason to celebrate a hundred festivals every year. He still finds reason to enjoy art, dance and music in his daily life. He still finds reason to thank God for the gifts of life, love and beauty – that’s what makes him the greatest.

Despite evolved statistical sciences, intrusive data collection methods, surreptitious mind-reading tactics, mood gauging theories, political networking …. He still manages to surprise and shock everyone by his choice of vote – that’s what makes him the greatest.

For centuries he has been subjected to dominating cultural influences by invaders, imperialists, film makers, writers, governments, religious leaders and giant media conglomerates. Despite his education, despite his branded clothes and gadgets, despite his global outlook, despite his changed lifestyle, despite powerful attempts to dilute his basic Indian-ness through various means he has not only maintained his Indian sensibilities but also spread his cultural legacy throughout the world and that too, without violence, coercion or manipulation. India lives because of this Indian – the common man, the lady next door, the man on the street. He may be nameless and faceless but he’s the strongest Indian, the most powerful Indian and the most stable Indian. He is India’s past, India’s present and India’s future. HE IS THE GREATEST INDIAN.

5. Great Journalist
6. Great Lawyer
7. Eshtablished Colleges (Milind college @ Aurngabad & Sidarth College @ mumbai )
8. Multidoctorate degree holder from USA ,UK,Germany
9. Religious Revolutionalist (Embrassed Buddhisam with Lacks of People)
10. First Indian Political leader who had resigned due to failur of Hindu Code Bill
11. First Leader who is really worshiping like GOD.
12. First man who ended the thousand years of the slavery of untochables.
13. Gandhi how can be ?? (refer What Congress and Gandhi done to Untpouchable or Gandhi could save ethe life of Bhagat Singh .He never go for fast for to stop Untouchability or India-Pakistan Parttion )

Dear Editor,

Our Blog has made it a focus to identify and criticize deep anti-Hindu prejudice that seems latent in American media. Their favored modus operandi, we find, is to drop a contemptuous sentence or two in an otherwise good article. We refer to this practice as “side-swiping” Hinduism and Hindus, the term normally used for a deliberate glancing hit with a vehicle delivered when presumably no one is watching. This article on Reuters.com is an excellent example of such side-swiping.
We refer to the sentence:
“Interestingly, the list includes the famous painter Maqbool Fida Husain who was, ironically, chased away from the country by right-wing Hindus for painting Hindu gods and Mother India in the nude.”
There was absolutely no reason to even refer to this topic in the article. This sentence could have been omitted without any damage whatsoever to this article’s content. In our opinion, this sentence
was only inserted to provide the writer the opportunity to express his contempt of Hindus without obviously seeming to do so – classic side-swiping.
It is important to discuss why devout Hindus, “right-wing Hindus” as the writer terms them, were outraged by Mr. Husain’s actions.
Mr. Husain, a Muslim, never painted anything that was offensive to Islam to our knowledge. For example, he never painted a picture of Allah or Mohammad; he never painted a picture of any Muslim Saint, Imam or Mullah in the nude. We wonder whether he ever painted any Muslim woman in the nude, revered or otherwise.
Mr. Husain’s special “thing”, a perversion” or at least a “fetish” in our opinion, was to paint revered Hindu Goddesses in the nude. He did so knowing fully well that this act would be deeply offensive to
hundreds of millions of Hindus.
Michaelangelo also painted figures in the nude. But he painted figures from his own community, from his religion. Unlike Husain, Michaelangelo did not seek out religious icons of a different religion, of a different community and then paint them only in the nude. How would Papal Rome in Michaelangelo’s days have treated a Muslim painter in Rome or Florence who painted Mary in the nude? How
would today’s Vatican treat a Muslim Painter who paints Mary in the nude? Not very kindly, we bet.
Actually, an unbiased writer would have found it interesting that a painter with such a anti-Hindu perversion would be included in the list of 50 Greatest Indians. But not Mr. Siddiquie. He termed devout
outraged Hindus as “right-wing” and blamed them for having “chased away” Mr. Husain.
We assume Mr. Siddiquie is a Muslim. If true, we are absolutely appalled that Reuters would allow a Muslim writer to express his contempt of Hindus on the Reuters platform. We have not seen any
instance of a Muslim writer being allowed by Reuters to express such sentiments about Jews, we have not seen any case of a Muslim writer being allowed by Reuters to express such a bias against “right-wing” Christians. Rightly so. But we guess Hindus don’t deserve such fair treatment. The editors surely know about the 1,000 year religious tension between Muslims and Hindus in the Indian sub-continent. Yet, they blithely allowed a Muslim writer to characterize devout Hindus as “right-wing” and criticize them for “chasing away” Mr. Husain. This is sheer editorial malpractice in our opinion.
Getting back to the writer, we ask:
Did he ever publish on Reuters or on any other platform, such a criticism of Muslims who rioted against the Danish cartoons of Prophet Mohammad?
Mayor Giuliani, we recall, ordered the removal of a nude painting of Jesus Christ from a Brooklyn Museum. Has this writer ever condemned Mr. Giuliani or Christians who expressed their outrage about that painting?
A couple of years ago, a billboard was put up in New Zealand depicting a post-intercourse comment between Mary & Joseph, parents of Jesus Christ. The objectives, the painters said, was not to offend but
to provoke a discussion about the concept of immaculate conception.
The outrage was intense and the billboard was removed the same day.
Has this writer ever condemned those Christians for being “right-wing” and for tearing down the billboard? Is there a single published instance of this writer ever condemning Christians for being offended by what they consider to be a sacrilege?
We doubt it. So we are inclined to believe that Mr. Siddiquie reserves his bias, his contempt only for Hindus.
The arguments above lead us to the conclusion that the gratuitously offensive sentence in the article is an act of bias and contempt towards Hindus. So we feel justified in calling a flagrant foul on
both Mr. Siddiquie and Reuters editors for this journalistic misconduct.

Sincerely,
Dilip Gadkar
Editor, Macro Viewpoints