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Led the campaign that won Ayurveda statutory recognition in independent India.

Worked out at nineteen why some stars must collapse into black holes.

Exported Transcendental Meditation and revived classical Ayurveda as a global health programme.

Turned yoga into a precise therapeutic method taught in clinics and studios worldwide.

The century's most celebrated pulse diagnostician; chaired India's central Ayurvedic council.

Recast famine as a failure of entitlement, not food supply.

Pioneer of reverse pharmacology, translating classical formulas into clinical trials.

Founded the Ayurvedic Institute in New Mexico and trained the first Western practitioners.

Endocrinologist turned global voice of mind-body medicine; contested by clinical researchers.

Philosopher of seed sovereignty and critic of industrial agriculture.

Freed tens of thousands of children from bonded labour.

Made yoga and Ayurveda a mass movement and a corporate empire; repeatedly censured over health claims.