brahmo samaj

He was just 23, but he inspired a following that included Bengal's first novelist, and the mathematician who calculated the height of Everest.

Did you know he once injected himself with bacilli to prove that leprosy was not highly contagious? This was just one of his many attempts to smash the social stigma around the disease!

A school teacher who took a strong stand against gender injustice and British exploitation, Dwarkanath Ganguly is one of the forgotten pillars of Indian renaissance.

This is the story of Kadambini Ganguly, one of the first women graduates from India and the entire British Empire, who moved on to become one of the first female physicians trained in western medicine in the whole of South Asia.