Indira Gandhi

A daredevil with many firsts to his name, SK Majumdar was 'Alma Pater' to a generation of Indian helicopter pilots. On #AirForceDay, we pay a tribute to this IAF legend.

Freedom fighter, avid reformer and one of India's finest women parliamentarians, Subhadra Joshi was the indomitable force behind many landmark legislations!

“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.

Twenty years before the Mizo Peace Accord was signed, the Indian government under Indira Gandhi had deployed fighter jets to drop bombs on Aizawl!

"What is the purpose of every human being born in this world? Is it not to lift mankind a little higher towards perfection?", Snehalatha Reddy wrote in prison.

On his birth anniversary, we celebrate the legend of Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw with eight remarkable, yet little-known, stories from his illustrious life.

While these recommendations never saw the light of day, perhaps pushing for the implementation of some of these will help clean up the fourth estate

Here is the little-known story of Udupi Ramachandra Rao, visionary space scientist, ex-ISRO chief and the architect of India’s first satellite Aryabhata.

An Indian diplomat and politician of the first order, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit was a trailblazer for women in ways more than one. For example, she became the first woman President of the United Nations General Assembly.

Prior to this, former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi held the defence portfolio as an additional charge on two occasions.