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From favouring poor farmers as a Chief Magistrate in Asansol to funding 'illegal' pamphlets by the Communist Party of India’s Bombay branch and sheltering 'fugitives' dedicated to the cause of freedom, Michael John Carritt's love and empathy for the Indian people made him a strong ally in India's independence struggle.

From pot-bellied malnourished kids to sad faces of mothers hiding their babies in their skeletal embrace, his pen captured the true tragedy of the Bengal famine. #history #ForgottenHeroes

Given the part that it played in India’s freedom movement, onions aren’t only an indispensable ingredient, they also carry emotional weight! #FoodSecrets

Way back in 1953, Hemendra Nath Chatterjee first treated 186 patients with an “oral glucose-sodium electrolyte solution”. But it’s widely believed that “racism or the lack of a ‘scientific’ rationale prevented the widespread adoption of his work.” #IndiansInScience #LostTales

From constructing the first township built with green building technology in India in 1995 to the largest earth building in the world in Bangladesh in 2006, Architect Shankar has taken on the cause of sustainable architecture with his blood, sweat and tears, battling hostile contractors, the establishment and naysayers.

There's nothing quite like freshly baked bakarkhani with sweetened milk tea. Did you know this Mughal-era bread has a backstory that can put many Bollywood plot lines to shame?

“I’m comfortable that I’m leaving Calcutta Rescue in good hands. I’m incapable of running it. We have a Governing Council and a CEO. I’m happy to go. There’s an old German saying that everything has an end. Except the sausage, which has two. The Germans are very fond of sausages,” quips the doctor.

To date, this remains the only example in India's history of a purely cultural intervention attempting to broker peace and end violent conflict! #History #Harmony #India

With his initiative impacting 1,100+ children across 15+ schools in India and Sri Lanka, Rahul Adhikari is the kind of real-life hero India needs today! #Respect #Education

She wasn’t born an Indian national, and yet the passion that Nellie Sengupta had for the Freedom Struggle was one that deserved to be written about in history books.