Divya Sethu

First discovered in 1907, Chandraketugarh is a 2,500-year-old site in West Bengal. We unearth the many links it provides to international trade in the mysterious Indus Valley Civilisation.

On National Vaccination Day, here's how an old oil painting depicting three queens, who were part of the British Raj’s awareness campaign for the smallpox vaccine in India, is still making ripples today.

Lata Kachhawaha, who arrived in Barmer district in Rajasthan in 1985, works with Sure NGO to empower women of the Meghwal community to earn a living through Kashidakari, a traditional form of embroidery.

Howrah-based scientist Dr Ramendra Mukherjee is the inventor of an international award-winning micro microscope in 1998. He has over 30 internationally patented inventions so far which also include a phone-sized UV steriliser.

Pune-based Amrit Kumar Bakhshy, former president of the Schizophrenia Awareness Association, talks about his daughter’s schizophrenia, his book on caregivers in India, and his role in helping draft the Mental Healthcare Act, 2017.

Kavita Bisht from Uttarakhand was attacked with acid when she was only 19. The severity of her attack left her visually impaired. But today, she’s using her own life experiences to counsel and teach young differently-abled children at the USR Indu Samiti School.

'Shareer Ki Jankaari' is a picture book on women's sexuality, designed in 1989 by 75 village women from Rajasthan under the Centre's Women Development Programme.

Polson began as a coffee manufacturing company in 1888, by 13-year-old Pestunji Edulji Dalal in Bombay. The first largescale dairy was set up in Khair, Gujarat, and the brand was India’s first commercially manufactured butter.

Bhimavva Chalwadi, a resident of Vasco, Goa, was forced into sex work at the age of 15 but has since worked for the rescue and rehabilitation of child sex workers, for which she won the CII Woman Exemplar Award in 2019.

In the 70s, Steve Lall quit the Indian Air Force and returned to his home in Jilling to preserve and guard the 140-acre mountain top, which covers vast orchards, forests, and farmlands, from encroachers. He runs the Jilling Estate with his wife, Parvati.