In the early 1900s, a young Parsi man named George Edalji was accused of a series of animal killings in a village in England. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes books, stepped in to help.
More than anything else, what many Indian fans remember is the joy he gave them. As Maradona once said, "When you're on the field, life goes away, the problems go away, everything goes away!”
As early as in 1920, Dr Mary Poonen Lukose delivered modern-day Kerala’s first C-section baby and began training professional midwives with the support of Travancore's Maharani Sethu Bai. And by 1929, this had led to 1.6 million residents of the state having access to modern medicine! #Respect #RealLifeHeroine #WomenInHistory
“I had undertaken this perilous swim not to gain fame or trophies but to prove once again to the world that Indians are no longer afraid", said the man who swam into world record books by conquering the English Channel and Palk Straits. #ForgottenHeroes #History
Competitions are fierce when it comes to securing admissions in the top colleges, both in India and abroad, and summer programmes and internships can tip the scales in favour of some students.
In Britain, he is remembered as a titan of the Communist movement. The Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist)’s main hall in London, located a few streets away from Ambedkar Hall, is named after him.
25 years ago, when this young teenager with no degree made the journey from England to Tamil Nadu, he hardly had an idea about how life-altering the decision would be.
Widely believed to be India's next Sachin Tendulkar, the Under-19 World Cup winning captain just hammered his first List-A century for Mumbai! #PrithviShaw