Divya Sethu

We remember the life and legacy of Kumbakonam Balamani, a Tamil theatre actor who took the artistic prowess of devadasis to a much larger audience, and dedicated all her wealth to the upliftment and empowerment of women disenfranchised by caste hierarchies.

UK-based writer Millie Sansoye speaks of when she weighed only 33 kg due to her eating disorder — anorexia. Here's how she became healthy again and dealt with the stigma attached to the mental illness in the Indian community.

The man behind India Plaza in Tempe, Arizona, Raveen Arora was born in a post-Partition refugee camp in Kolkata. Years later, he has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for transforming a ghetto in USA into an area full of opportunities.

Author and motivational speaker Raga Olga D'Silva narrates her 20-year struggle to accept her identity and find her place in the world as member of the LGBTQ community, which has now inspired an upcoming movie to be directed by Onir, the man behind acclaimed movies like I Am and My Brother Nikhil.

After Taliban returned to power in Kabul this week, an Afghan student in India talks about what this means to him. If you’re looking for ways to help Afghanistan, we’ve listed some resources here.

As the country marks its 75th Independence Day, Dr Alagappa Chettiar’s grandson, Dr Ramanathan Vairavan, sits down to honour his grandfather, a man whose contributions to a newly-Independent India have been monumental.

Ashish Thakur, a banker from Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, has dedicated half of his life to burying and cremating the abandoned dead with dignity and respect through his NGO Moksha. He talks about how he maintains hope in such a grueling line of work and the lessons he has learnt.

Louis-Benoit Zamor was taken by British slave traders from his birthplace in Bengal and sold to Louis XV, who in turn 'gifted' him to his mistress, Madame du Barry. However, two decades later, Zamor became a participant of the French Revolution. Here's his incredible story.

Kerala-born Shaji Thomas, an environmental conservationist and lawyer, went to Brazil as a young exchange student, but stayed back to protect the Amazon forests and the rights of over 60 communities living in the heart of the region.

Professor Padmanabhan Balaram talks about his search for Dr Dorothy Hamre, the unsung virologist who was the first to find and isolate a strain of the coronavirus, and how her unknown contributions have shaped our understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic.