She may have faced severe discrimination because of being a woman but Indian physicist Anna Mani never allowed her gender to outplay her achievements. What was it about Jim corbett that made him so endearing, even surpassing his fame as the hunter of maneaters? How many of you know of the Sálim Ali bird named after the Bird Man of India? In just 32 years of his life, how much maths did Ramanujan decode for us and how much more did he leave behind for us to explore! What shaped the talent and fuelled the passion of M.S. Subbulakshmi, a prodigy from Madurai, who brought glory to India through her music?

Replete with little known facets of the lives of some of the most inspiring visionaries of pre independence and Independent India, this book is a must-read for young seekers of history.