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PROJECT LAUNCH: 15th August 2019 @ the stroke of midnight IST

At the stroke of midnight of India’s 73rd Independence Day, LAMP Trust launched this Nation Building Project website. Come join this Nation Building Project ‘100 GREATEST INDIANS 1919-2019’. Please fill up the form below, revisit us soon and keep in regular touch!

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Young India is progressing fast. They all have a dream. A dream to see India as a powerful, inclusive India that can rightly claim it’s place in the comity of Nations. The heroes of the past who had a vision for this country and worked relentlessly, and those amongst us, living legends, would be the right role models for Young India to emulate.

LAMP Trust has also simultaneously launched the Nation Building Project INDIA@2047 : ‘INDIA DREAMS 2047’ : INDIA VISION 2047

We cannot look forward without looking back! The stories of the odds that our heroes of the past faced, and the challenges they overcame, need to be told. Most of them were ordinary people but were resolute in achieving their dream for India. We need to seek inspiration from their lives, their grit and determination in conquering the odds.

Drawing inspiration from the Past to Propel our future, Young India will ensure the Spirit of India lives and thrives.

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A list of heroes / role models has been drawn up and posted:

Name
Abdul Ghaffār Khān
Abul Kalam Azad
Allah-Rakha Rahman
Amartya Kumar Sen
Amitabh Bachchan
Ardeshir Burjorji Sorabji Godrej
Aruna Asaf Ali
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam
Azim Hashim Premji
Baba Amte
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Bal Keshav Thackeray
Bhagat Singh
Bhagwan Das
Bhikaiji Rustom Cama
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
Bhupen Hazarika
Bidhan Chandra Roy
Bismillah Khan
Brajesh Mishra
Brijmohan Lall Munjal
Chakravarti Rajagopalachari
Chandikadas Amritrao Deshmukh
Chandra Shekhar
Chandra Shekhar Azad
Chandrashekhara Venkata Raman
Chaudhary Charan Singh
Chidambaram Subramaniam
Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao
Coimbatore Krishnarao Prahalad
Conjeevaram Natarajan Annadurai
Cyrus S. Poonawalla
Dadasaheb Phalke
Deendayal Upadhyaya
Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani
Dhondo Keshav Karve
Dhyan Chand
Dr. S. K. Burman
Ela Ramesh Bhatt
Elattuvalapil Sreedharan
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
Fali Sam Nariman
Field Marshal Kodandera Madappa Cariappa
Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw
Francis Newton Souza
Ghanshyam Das Birla
Gopinath Bordoloi
Govind Ballabh Pant
Gulzarilal Nanda
Haradanahalli Doddegowda Deve Gowda
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Inder Kumar Gujral
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Jagdish Chandra Mahindra
Jagjivan Ram
Jaipal Singh Munda
Jamnalal Bajaj
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jayaprakash Narayan
Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata
Jyotirindra Basu
K. Subrahmanyam
Kailash Satyarthi
Kalpana Chawla
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
Keshav Baliram Hedgewar
Khushwant Singh
Kishore Kumar
Kocheril Raman Narayanan
Kota Shivaram Karanth
Krishnaji Howlaji Ara
Kumaraswami Kamaraj
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Lala Lajpat Rai
Lata Mangeshkar
Laxmanrao Kashinath Kirloskar
Madan Mohan Malaviya
Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar
Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi
Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan
Manmohan Singh
Maqbool Fida Husain
Marshal of the Indian Air Force Arjan Singh
Maruthur Gopala Ramachandran
Mary Kom
Meghnad Saha
Mohammad Hidayatullah
Mohammed Rafi
Mohan Bhagwat
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Mokshagundam Viswesvarayya
Morarji Ranchhodji Desai
Mother Teresa
Motilal Nehru
Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy
Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao
Narendra Damodardas Modi
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
Om Prakash Jindal
Osho Rajneesh
Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao
Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi
Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia
Pandurang Vaman Kane
Parmanand Deepchand Hinduja
Periyar Erode Venkatappa Ramasamy
Prafulla Chandra Ray
Pranab Mukherjee
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
Pratibha Devisingh Patil
Purushottam Das Tandon
Rabindranath Tagore
Rajendra Prasad
Rajiv Ratna Gandhi
Rajnikanth
Rakesh Sharma
Ram Nath Kovind
Rama Prasad Goenka
Ramaswamy Venkataraman
Ramnath Goenka
Rao Raja Hanut Singh
Ravi Shankar
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
Sarojini Naidu
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Sathya Sai Baba
Satish Dhawan
Satyajit Ray
Sayed Haider Raza
Sengamedu Srinivasa Badrinath
Shankar Dayal Sharma
Shantanurao Laxmanrao Kirloskar
Shiv Nadar
Shivaram Rajguru
Shyamji Krishna Varma
Sri Aurobindo Ghose
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Subhas Chandra Bose
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Sukhdev Thapar
Sunil Mittal
Syama Prasad Mukherjee
Tenzin Gyatso – The 14th Dalai Lama
Thirukkurungudi Vengaram Sundram Iyengar
Udham Singh
Udupi Ramachandra Rao
Valangaiman Sankaranarayana Srinivasa Sastri
Vallabhbhai Patel
Vallinayagan Olaganathan Chidambaram Pillai
Varahagiri Venkata Giri
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Verghese Kurien
Vijaya Raje Scindia
Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
Vinoba Bhave
Vishwanath Pratap Singh
Walchand Hirachand Doshi
Yashwantrao Balwantrao Chavan
Yusuf Hamied
Zail Singh
Zakir Husain Khan
Zubin Mehta
NameFromTo
Abdul Ghaffār Khān
6-Feb-1890
20-Jan-1988
Abul Kalam Azad
11-Nov-1888
22-Feb-58
Allah-Rakha Rahman
6-Jan-1967
Amartya Kumar Sen
3-Nov-1933
Amitabh Bachchan11-Oct-1942
Ardeshir Burjorji Sorabji Godrej
1868
1936
Aruna Asaf Ali
16-Jul-1909
29-Jul-1996
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
25-Dec-1924
16-Aug-2018
Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam
15-Oct-1931
27-Jul-2015
Azim Hashim Premji
24-Jul-1945
Baba Amte
26-Dec-191409-Feb-2008
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
23-July-1856
1-Aug-1920
Bal Keshav Thackeray
23-Jan-1926
17-Nov-2012
Bhagat Singh
Sep/Oct-1907
23-Mar-1931
Bhagwan Das
12-Jan-1869
18-Sep-1958
Bhikaiji Rustom Cama
24-Sep-1861
13-Aug-1936
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
14-Apr-1891
6-Dec-1956
Bhupen Hazarika
8-Sep-1926
5-Nov-2011
Bidhan Chandra Roy
1-Jul-1882
1-Jul-1962
Bismillah Khan
21-Mar-1916
21-Aug-2006
Brajesh Mishra
29-Sep-1928
28-Sep-2012
Brijmohan Lall Munjal
1-Jul-1923
1-Nov-2015
Chakravarti Rajagopalachari
10-Dec-1878
25-Dec-1972
Chandikadas Amritrao Deshmukh
11-Oct-1916
27-Feb-2010
Chandra Shekhar
1-Jul-1927
8-Jul-2007
Chandra Shekhar Azad
23-Jul-1906
27-Feb-1931
Chandrashekhara Venkata Raman
7-Nov-1888
21-Nov-1970
Chaudhary Charan Singh
23-Dec-1902
29-May-1987
Chidambaram Subramaniam
30-Jan-1910
7-Nov-2000
Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao
30-Jun-1934
Coimbatore Krishnarao Prahalad
8-Aug-1941
16-Apr-2010
Conjeevaram Natarajan Annadurai
15-Sep-1909
3-Feb-1969
Cyrus S. Poonawalla
1945
Dadasaheb Phalke
30-April-1870
16-Feb-1944
Deendayal Upadhyaya
15-Sep-1916
11-Feb-1968
Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani
28-Dec-1932
6-Jul-2002
Dhondo Keshav Karve
18-Apr-1858
9-Nov-1962
Dhyan Chand
29-Aug-1905
3-Dec-1979
Dr. S. K. Burman
1856
1907
Ela Ramesh Bhatt
7-Sep-1933
Elattuvalapil Sreedharan
12-Jun-1932
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
13-May-1905
11-Feb-1977
Fali Sam Nariman
10-Jan-1929
Field Marshal Kodandera Madappa Cariappa
28-Jan-1899
15-May-1993
Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw
3-Apr-1914
27-Jun-2008
Francis Newton Souza
12-Apr-1924
28-Mar-2002
Ghanshyam Das Birla
10Apr1894
11-Jun-1983
Gopinath Bordoloi
10-Jun-1890
5-Aug-1950
Govind Ballabh Pant
10-Sep1887
7-Mar-1961
Gulzarilal Nanda
4-Jul-1898
15-Jan-1998
Haradanahalli Doddegowda Deve Gowda
18-May-1933
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
30-Oct-1909
24-Jan-1966
Inder Kumar Gujral
4-Dec-1919
30-Nov-2012
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi
19-Nov-1917
31-Oct-1984
Jagadish Chandra Bose
30-Nov-1858
23-Nov-1937
Jagdish Chandra Mahindra
1892
1951
Jagjivan Ram
5-Apr-1908
6-Jul-1986
Jaipal Singh Munda
3-Jan-1903
20-Mar-1970
Jamnalal Bajaj
4-Nov-1889
11-Feb-1942
Jawaharlal Nehru
14-Nov-1889
27-May-1964
Jayaprakash Narayan
11-Oct-1902
8-Oct-1979
Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata
29-Jul-1904
29-Nov-1993
Jyotirindra Basu
8-Jul-1914
17-Jan-2010
K. Subrahmanyam
19-Jan-1929
2-Feb-2011
Kailash Satyarthi
11-Jan-1954
Kalpana Chawla
17-Mar-1962
1-Feb-2003
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
3-Apr-1903
29-Oct-1988
Keshav Baliram Hedgewar
1-Apr-1889
21-Jun-1940
Khushwant Singh
2-Feb-1915
20-Mar-2014
Kishore Kumar
4-Aug-1929
13-Oct-1987
Kocheril Raman Narayanan
4-Feb-1921
9-Nov-2005
Kota Shivaram Karanth
10-Oct-1902
9-Dec-1997
Krishnaji Howlaji Ara
16-Apr-1914
30-Jun-1985
Kumaraswami Kamaraj
15-Jul-1903
2-Oct-1975
Lal Bahadur Shastri
2-Oct-1904
11-Jan-1966
Lala Lajpat Rai
28-Jan-1865
17-Nov-1928
Lata Mangeshkar
28-Sep-29
Laxmanrao Kashinath Kirloskar
20-June-1869
26-Sep-1956
Madan Mohan Malaviya
25-Dec-1861
12-Nov-1946
Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar
19-Feb-1906
5-Jun-1973
Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi
16-Sep-1916
11-Dec-2004
Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan
7-Aug-1925
Manmohan Singh
26-Sep-1932
Maqbool Fida Husain
17-Sep-1915
9-Jun-2011
Marshal of the Indian Air Force Arjan Singh
15-Apr-1919
16-Sep-2017
Maruthur Gopala Ramachandran
17-Jan-1917
24-Dec-1987
Mary Kom
1-Mar-1983
Meghnad Saha
6-Oct-1893
16-Feb-1956
Mohammad Hidayatullah
17-Dec-1905
18-Sep-1992
Mohammed Rafi
24-Dec-1924
31-Jul-1980
Mohan Bhagwat
11-Sep-1950
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
2-Oct-1869
30-Jan-1948
Mokshagundam Viswesvarayya
15-Sep-1861
12-Apr-1962
Morarji Ranchhodji Desai
29-Feb-1896
10-Apr-1995
Mother Teresa
26-Aug-1910
5-Sep-1997
Motilal Nehru
6-May-1861
6-Feb-1931
Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy
20-Aug-1946
Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao
28-May-1923
18-Jan-1996
Narendra Damodardas Modi
17-Sep-1950
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
19-May-1913
1-Jun-1996
Om Prakash Jindal
7-Aug-1930
31-Mar-2005
Osho Rajneesh
11-Dec-1931
19-Jan-1990
Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao
28-Jun-1921
23-Dec-2004
Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi
4-Feb-1922
24-Jan-2011
Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia
1-Jul-1938
Pandurang Vaman Kane
7 May 1880
8-May-1972
Parmanand Deepchand Hinduja
1900
1971
Periyar Erode Venkatappa Ramasamy
17-Sep-1879
24-Dec-1973
Prafulla Chandra Ray
2-Aug-1861
16-Jun-1944
Pranab Mukherjee
11-Dec-1935
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
29-June-1893
28-Jun-1972
Pratibha Devisingh Patil
19-Dec-1934
Purushottam Das Tandon
1-Aug-1882
1-Jul-1962
Rabindranath Tagore
7-May-1861
7-Aug-1941
Rajendra Prasad
3-Dec-1884
28-Feb-1963
Rajiv Ratna Gandhi
20-Aug-1944
21-May-1991
Rajnikanth
12-Dec-1950
Rakesh Sharma
13-Jan-1949
Ram Nath Kovind
1-Oct-1945
Rama Prasad Goenka
1-Mar-1930
14-Apr-2013
Ramaswamy Venkataraman
4-Dec-1910
27-Jan-2009
Ramnath Goenka
22-Apr-1904
5-Oct-1991
Rao Raja Hanut Singh
20-Mar-1900
12-Oct-1982
Ravi Shankar
7-Apr-1920
11-Dec-2012
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
24-Apr-1973
Sarojini Naidu
13-Feb-1879
2-Mar-1949
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
5-Sep-1888
17-Apr-1975
Sathya Sai Baba
23-Nov-1926
24-Apr-2011
Satish Dhawan
25-Sep-1920
3-Jan-2002
Satyajit Ray
2-May-1921
23-Apr-1992
Sayed Haider Raza
22-Feb-1922
23-Jul-2016
Sengamedu Srinivasa Badrinath
24-Feb-1940
Shankar Dayal Sharma
19-Aug-1918
26-Dec-1999
Shantanurao Laxmanrao Kirloskar
28-May-1903
24-Apr-1994
Shiv Nadar
14-Jul-1945
Shivaram Rajguru
24-Aug-1908
23-Mar-1931
Shyamji Krishna Varma
4-Oct-1857
30-Mar-1930
Sri Aurobindo Ghose
15-Aug-1872
5-Dec-1950
Subhas Chandra Bose
23-Jan-1897
18-Aug-1945
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
19-Oct-1910
21-Aug-1995
Sukhdev Thapar
15-May-1907
23-Mar-1931
Sunil Mittal
23-Oct-1957
Syama Prasad Mukherjee
6-Jul-1901
23-Jun-1953
Tenzin Gyatso – The 14th Dalai Lama
6-Jul-1935
Thirukkurungudi Vengaram Sundram Iyengar
22-Mar-1877
28-Apr-1955
Udham Singh
26-Dec-1899
31-Jul-1940
Udupi Ramachandra Rao10-Mar-193224-Jul-2017
Valangaiman Sankaranarayana Srinivasa Sastri
22-Sep-1869
17-Apr-1946
Vallabhbhai Patel
31-Oct-1875
15-Dec-1950
Vallinayagan Olaganathan Chidambaram Pillai
5-Sep-1872
18-Nov-1936
Varahagiri Venkata Giri
10-Aug-1894
24-Jun-1980
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
1952
Verghese Kurien
26-Nov-1921
9-Sep-2012
Vijaya Raje Scindia
12-Oct-1919
25-Jan-2001
Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai
12-Aug-1919
30-Dec-1971
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
28-May-1883
26-Feb-1966
Vinoba Bhave
11-Sep-1895
15-Nov-1982
Vishwanath Pratap Singh
25-Jun-1931
27-Nov-2008
Walchand Hirachand Doshi
23-Nov-1882
8-Apr-1953
Yashwantrao Balwantrao Chavan
12-Mar-1913
25-Nov-1984
Yusuf Hamied
25-Jul-1936
Zail Singh
5-May-1916
25-Dec-1994
Zakir Husain Khan
8-Feb-1897
3-May-1969
Zubin Mehta
29-Apr-1936

In the process of identifying the 100 Greatest Indians – heroes and role models to inspire our children and youth – the team at LAMP Trust have taken the following steps:

  • We have taken 1919 as a marker, since the Jallianwala Bagh massacre was the episodic turning point of our Nationalistic movement
  • The list includes:
    • Freedom Fighters, Nation Builders who did not live to see India’s Freedom in 1947
    • Freedom Fighters, Nation Builders who lived to witness India’s Freedom in 1947
    • Present Day Legends
  • The people considered include those who have played a role in nation building and whose influence and impact has spanned across the length and breadth of the country and beyond.

Any additions to the above list is most welcome. Please participate by filling in the form below with complete details for our consideration:

I wish to submit the following name for consideration for the potential list of 100 Greatest Indians 1919-2019 for the reasons submitted below:

Information in detail:

Specific reasons in detail why the above person should be considered for inclusion in the National List of “100 Greatest Indians 1919-2019”:

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chor singing a million dreams

We need to seed thoughts and facilitate our nation’s children and youth and inspire them to dream, act and excel in every sphere of life, individually and collectively. This will finally lead India to break the entrenched cycle of poverty & inequity, developing us into a strong economic super power and leader-influencer in the comity of nations by 2047.

OUTREACH & SCALE: 1.32 Billion Indians : 1 Cause – Unity in Diversity

The Nation Building Project “100 Greatest Indians 1919-2020” aims to reach out to every Indian child, youth, and through them their families across India, and to the Indian Diaspora and persons of Indian origin across the globe, through ongoing waves of initiatives over several years. The project will cut through the urban-rural, socio-economic, geographic, cultural and other divides to unite the nation and its people. We will impart and kindle a spirit of patriotism and a love for this nation in the hearts of every member of our next generation, the impact of which will last a life time!

Project-51A(b):
Fundamental Duties of every Citizen of India:

“It shall be the duty of every citizen of India to cherish and follow the noble ideals which inspired our national struggle for freedom.”
– Article 51A(b) of the Constitution of India

Project-51A(j):
Fundamental Duties of every Citizen of India:

“It shall be the duty of every citizen of India to strive towards excellence in all spheres of individual and collective activity so that the nation constantly rises to higher levels of endeavour and achievement.”
– Article 51A(j) of the Constitution of India

LAMP is registered under the Indian Trust Act, 1882 (Regn. No: 19238 | 2010-11 | Gurugram, Haryana)

Make in India : Character Building for Nation Building

Envisioning and equipping future Nation Builders (Children & Youth) through LAMP’s Character Building concepts, projects, related events & initiatives utilising Music, Art & Culture, which, combined with EDUCATION & SKILL DEVELOPMENT, will help build Responsible Citizens based on Article 51A of the Constitution of India. Through the above processes and LAMP’s anchor projects “INDIA DREAMS 2047” & “100 Greatest Indians” we aim to develop our future Nation Builders for an India@100.

LAMP’s mandate, objectives & projects comes under the Government of India mandated Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) regulations – under the Development Sector of Impact: (a) Education & Livelihood (Skill Development) and (b) Promotion of National Heritage, Art & Culture. LAMP focuses on building Responsible Citizenship through Nation Building Projects utilizing Music, Art & Culture based on Fundamental Duties of every Citizen of India, as detailed in Article 51A of the Constitution of India. We seek in every artistic way, to ignite this patriotic fervour in society through our concepts, projects, related events and initiatives.

CSR Contributors / Donors to LAMP Trust will receive Income Tax Exemption as available under Section 80G of Income Tax Act, as issued by the Commissioner of Income Tax, Faridabad via Regn No: 66 dt 05.03.2012

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On 10th August 2017, Aubrey spoke about India@2047 at the Independence Day eve Concert held at Kingdom of Dreams, Gurgaon.

“LAMP Trust focuses on promoting music, art & culture and through that strand of Nation Building impact the character of the youth to help them build the India of our future – the India of 2047. It is going to be 100 years in the year 2047. You have a 10 year old girl who will be 40 in 2047. These are our future Nation Builders…..”

Aubrey speaks about 2047 during his interview on ZEE Group’s WION TV on 15August2017….

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