Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890-1988) Known as an uncrowned Pathan king, the Red Shirt Khudai Khidmatgar (Servant of God), the pride of the Pathans, Fakher-e-Afghan, Badhshah Khan (Sardar), the Sarhadi Gandhi (Gandhi of the Frontier), Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan was a symbol of peace and sacrifice in the subcontinent. Abdul Ghaffar Khan was a scion of a leading family belonging to the Mohamadzai Pathan tribe of village Uttamanzai in the Charsadda Tehsil...

Acharya Vinoba Brave (1895-1982)   Sarvodaya leader—”a symbol of the role of conscience in human affairs”—Vinayak Narahari Bhave, commonly known as Vinoba, was born at Gagoda, Pen taluka, Kolaba District, Maharashtra, on 11 September 1885. The Bhaves had lived there for several decades. His father. Narahari Shambhurao Bhave was a well-to-do Brahmin. Vinoba was very fond of his mother Rukminibai and she of him. Vinoba inherited her austerity, asceticism and altruism....

Marry Teresa Bojaxhiu (Mother Teresa)  Mother Teresa is an exemplary person in the service of the humanity. She gave up everything “totally to God and the poorest in serving the poorest of the poor”. She is a Roman Catholic nun renowned and revered for her work among the poor and sick in India. Mother Teresa was born of Albanian parents in Skopje, Yugoslavia, on August 27, 1910. Her original name is...

Kumaraswami Kamaraj (1903-1975) A true democrat and a socialist, a product of the national movement, one who participated in it, from the age of eighteen, with his rich and valuable experience, huge popularity and tremendous influence, Kumaraswami Kamaraj played a leading role in shaping India’s destiny from the passing away of the first Prime Minister of India Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru to the Indian National Congress-split in 1969. When the question, ‘After...