This ancient system of medicine, whose name means "science of life," uses herbs, oils, and lifestyle practices to balance the body's doshas.
This Indian mathematician from the 5th century calculated pi to four decimal places and was the first to use zero as a number rather than just a placeholder.
This self-taught mathematician from Tamil Nadu collaborated with G.H. Hardy at Cambridge and is famous for his work on infinite series, continued fractions, and partition functions.
This ISRO mission, launched in July 2023, successfully landed near the lunar south pole in August 2023, making India the first country to achieve a soft landing in that region of the Moon.
In 2014, India became the first nation to successfully reach Mars orbit on its very first attempt with this low-cost mission, also nicknamed 'Mangalyaan,' at a cost less than the Hollywood film Gravity.
This Indian-born astrophysicist won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics for his theoretical studies on the physical processes governing the structure and evolution of stars, including the concept now known as the 'Chandrasekhar limit.'
This Indian space agency successfully soft-landed the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft on the Moon's south polar region in August 2023, making India only the fourth nation to achieve a lunar landing.
This ancient Indian mathematical notation system, which originated around the 5th century CE and was formalized by mathematicians like Brahmagupta, introduced the concept of zero as both a placeholder and a number, revolutionizing global mathematics.
This mathematician and astronomer from Kerala developed an infinite series for trigonometric functions, centuries before similar discoveries in Europe.
This 5th-century mathematician and astronomer calculated the value of pi to four decimal places and described the sine function, work that wouldn't be equaled in Europe for over a thousand years.