In recent years, I have myself participated in juries tasked with choosing the best-ever Indian cricket 11 (in 2002, on the 75th anniversary of our first Test match) and the 60 greatest Indians since Gandhi (in 2010, on the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Republic). In the course of some research in the archives, I came across a poll conducted as far back as 1926. In the brief period he was with the Indian National Herald, Horniman asked his readers to choose the 10 greatest living Indians. For one thing, all 10 ‘great Indians’ were upper-caste Hindus, of which at least five were Brahmins. Who would be the 10 greatest Indians of 2018?

Source: Hindustan Times April 07, 2018 12:33 UTC