78 . Mira Nair: Across Borders and Between Worlds
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21 . Shashi Tharoor: The Global Malayali Who Turned Intellect Into Public Power
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93 . Resul Pookutty: The Man Made the World Listen to Indian Cinema Differently
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38 . Adoor Gopalakrishnan: The Filmmaker Who Turned Kerala’s Silence Into World Cinema
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19 . Nambi Narayanan: The Scientist India Failed, and the Man History Had to Restore
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71 . Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri: The Poet Who Gave Malayalam Cinema Its Inner Music
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50 . Justice K. M. Joseph: The Quiet Strength Behind Constitutional Courage
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64 . Kalamandalam Gopi: India’s greatest living Kathakali exponent
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30 . Stephen Devassy: A Charged Space Between Performer & Crowd
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142 . Unni Balakrishnan: The Face in Kerala’s Living Rooms
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