At the peak of his career, it would have been easy for Dev to settle into a posh metro city and live a comfortable life. Secure the future with his wife, Dr Priyanka, an IIT alumnus and professor at a government college. But he decided to tread the road less taken.
Spoken by over 6.4 million people in the states of Jharkhand, West Bengal, Odisha and Assam, efforts to bring Santhali to the mainstream were going on, even before the Wikipedia page went live.
Tribal women of Jharkhand are using Mahua, which is popularly used for brewing country-made liquor, to make laddoos. This is not only helping them become self-dependent but also helping in the eradication of alcoholism from their village.
Apart from the idlis, Sushanti Purty also sells local snacks items like Malpua (Rs 5 per piece), Gulgula (Rs 1 per piece), Shakarpala (Rs 1 per piece) and Fryums (Rs 5 per packet).
A soldier who died defending his nation till his last breath, this forgotten braveheart received the only Param Vir Chakra on the eastern frontier in the 1971 Indo-Pak war.