Hindi cinema’s biggest blockbuster officially completes 35 years this 15 August, but it was actually born in 1973 in a small room. Screenplay writer Salim Khan remembers how Sholay was conceived.
Some are famous, some are not. You may agree with the list, you may not. But these are in our view the most imaginative men and women in the country. In no particular order.
Christopher Nolan isn’t the first to understand the significance of dreams. Francis Menezes, a dream therapist, succumbed to a long illness recently. But if he hadn’t paid heed to his dreams, his time would have come much earlier.
TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle