Geologist

Geologist Dr S B Misra discovered a type of fossil in Canada that could have easily been his ticket to fame. He left it all, however, to return to his village in Uttar Pradesh and set up the Bharatiya Gramin Vidyala to offereducation to all.

Professor Sudipta Sengupta, renowned mountaineer and geologist and one of India's first women to break into such fields, recalls her historic expeditions to the Himalayas and Antarctica.

A successful scientist in Canada, Shiva Balak Misra made his life’s mission to make education accessible to children in his village Kunaura in Uttar Pradesh, thus starting the Bharatiya Gramin Vidyalaya