Indian role models

Posted by Srik (Bengalooru, India) on 12 January 2007 in Lifestyle & Culture.

Clicked this picture during one of the visits to an orphanage home, Chaitanyanandashrama, near Bengalooru.
Personalities in the picture are, (from left) :
S. Radhakrishnan (2nd Pressident of India and a legendary teacher), Lal Bahadur Shastry (2nd Prime Minister of India, known for his courage and determination), Sir. M. Vishveshwarayya (a celebrated engineer and an architect of modern Karnataka), Swamy Vivekananda (a great saint who propheted Hindu religion in the west. He was a great scholar and a patriot. He still is a big role model to Indian youth), Mahatma Gandhi (no introduction needed about this great soul), Ramakrishna Pramahamsa (Guru of Swamy Vivekananda, and a university of philosophy in himself), Bhagavan Shiva (Last of the Trimurthis, a Hindu God, who is supposed to be the cause for equilibrium of life on earth and elsewhere), Bhagawan Buddha (Prophet of Buddhism, Budha means knowledge), Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (A no-ordinary patriot, great leader), Basavanna (12th Century minister who turned a social reformer, messaiah of equality at so early as that)