History

Read the story of how Luna, India’s first moped, rode its merry way into the middle-class household offering an affordable and more comfortable alternative to the beloved bicycles.

The era of bathing bars or ‘toilette’ soaps, as they were more popularly known then, is one that folks from the eighties and nineties would surely hold close to their hearts.

This is Karsanbhai Patel’s story of how he took a new detergent brand from his backyard to every middle-class house in India.

"What kind of a tribute are we paying the martyrs, if their grandsons cannot live with a little dignity? The movies produced, books written benefit all but the direct descendants. Are those really the homage our revolutionaries deserve?”

"Not many books on the life of Sarsenapati Umabaisaheb Dabhade are found in bookstores. Very little has been written about her. I always feel that her story just remained in the original letters and in a very few books written in the old times. Her laurels did not reach the masses as they should have."

This incredible initiative was originally flagged off in 1866, and there are 900 such plaques around the city!

One of the foundations of quantum mechanics is Bose-Einstein statistics. And as you must have noted, the Kolkata physicist’s name comes first — Einstein himself acknowledged that Bose’s was the larger contribution. #ForgottenHero #Science

He may have been mocked as a 'half-naked seditious fakir', but his iconic makeover went on to become the quintessential symbol of the common man and his spiritual strength.

On April 6, 1930, 61-year-old Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi picked up a lump of salt and proclaimed, “With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire.”

While the rest of the country was aligning itself to fight the British, there was a movement in Goa as well to liberate itself from the Portuguese.