History

Not many in the country today would have heard of Dr KB Menon or of his journey from a scholar teaching at the Harvard to a stalwart revolutionary in the Malabar, who found his greater calling in the independence struggle for his motherland.

She was no trained assassin, but the 21-year-old aimed five shots at the then Bengal Governor Stanley Jackson known as ‘Jackers.'

“I had two options: to listen to the dictates of my heart or my purse. I chose to listen to my heart,” later said the owner about his newspaper's finest hour.

Also known as Kerala Simham, the 18th-century warrior king continues to remain a revered hero in the state who fought for his citizens and didn’t bow down to the British until his last breath.

Even if the Portuguese, British or Dutch entered the country, he might not have risen arms against them, but then the Portuguese tried to dominate over the sovereignty of the Maratha empire.

Bose was influenced when he was just a boy, and grew up to be a fierce revolutionary who loved his nation.

The three dynamic leaders of Lokmanya Tilak, Lala Lajpat Rai and Bipin Chandra Pal, who had been promoting self-reliance and opposing the monopoly of the British goods in India, famously came together as the Lal-Bal-Pal trio.

Samuel (Satyananda) Stokes was an American who joined Indian National Congress in India's freedom struggle. He even introduced apples to Himachal Pradesh

How a series of seemingly disconnected travel journeys led the coffee lover in me unearth its orgins, forgotten with time.

The Maharani or ‘Rajmata,’ as she came to be known, would go on to use her education and privilege to bring about a change in the system.