Who is a great person?: The dictionary definition is someone who has achieved distinction and honour in some field. For example (clockwise from top-left) Sindhutai Sapkal (popularly known as mother of thousands of orphans), Mother Theresa (Albanian nun, extraordinary social worker), Ela Bhatt (Gandhian who started Self-Employed Women’s Association of India (SEWA) in 1972 to help women labour in Ahmedabad), Florence Nightingale (she made a fine art of nursing care against all odds), Adv. Babasaheb Ambedkar (Dalit leader who wrote India’s secular constitution), Mahatma Gandhi (iconic crusader fro civil rights and freedom from British Rule), Nelson Mandela (South African anti-apartheid revolutionary leader) and Abraham Lincoln (abolished slavery in USA)