Jyoti Basu

In school, his teachers would often advise him to return to his village and take up occupations ‘more fit’ for people from his community like fishing or agriculture. Instead, he would go onto make history.

“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