Over the course of two intense years Swati Sengupta spoke to dozens of surrendered Maoist soldier...

A little boy growing up in Calcutta (now Kolkata) is brilliant in mathematics.In school, he is fo...

DeScriPtionIn a small village in Punjab, little Milkha Singh grew up, loved by his parents,surro...

DeScriPtionJhalkari Bai grew up in Bhojla, many miles away from the city of Jhansi. Farfrom the ...

DeScriPtionBirsa Munda lived in one of the villages that dotted the Chhotanagpurregion in today'...

DeScriPtionWhen she was nine years old, Savitri was married to thirteen-year-oldJyotirao Phule. ...

Arati Saha was born in 1940, and learnt to swim in the Hooghly riverin Calcutta as a child. At th...

Born in 1907 to a family of farmers in Punjab, Bhagat Singh, at the age ofthree, had declared tha...

Anandi led a very diff erent life from other girls of the times. Her husbandwanted her to study a...

'I will not let you kill any more.' Shanto's voice was firm, confident-no longer that of a timid ...

She faced incredible opposition to her work when people attacked her not just with words but even...

He exhorted them to set aside old superstitions. And he led them in armed confrontations with the...