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"Treat me as an Indian woman and I shall be quite content," said the first European woman to be jailed as a Satyagrahi. #WomenInHistory

“He took the medal to his teacher in India, who was a very old by then. His teacher was lying flat on his back and couldn't get out of bed. And there is a picture of my father putting the medal (Nobel Prize) into his hands...”

"Tu Hindu Banega na Musalman Banega, Insaan Ki Aulad Hai Insaan Banega," once wrote the legendary poet whose words remain relevant even today. #LegacyOfALegend

“I can truly say that [but] for Dr. Bhatnagar you could not have seen today the chain of national laboratories”, once said Nehru about the ‘Father of India’s Research Laboratories’. He was not wrong.

Pritam Kaur and Bhagwan Singh Maini had met just once when they got engaged. The second time they met was at one of the teeming refugee camps that dotted Amritsar.

A leader who was worshiped by his regiment, the daring hero of Dograi was awarded the Mahavir Chakra for his incredible courage and exemplary leadership.

"At the appointed time, Bhagat Singh and BK Dutta threw the bombs over the empty seats in the Central Assembly, threw the historic pamphlets 'To Make the Deaf Hear' and shouted slogans: 'Inquilab Zindabad' and 'Samrajyavaad ka naash ho'."

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

A forgotten compatriot of Bhagat Singh and Chandrashekhar Azad, Durga Devi Vohra lived a life of intrigue and danger to help India gain freedom from colonial rule.

This incredibly daring escape from a prisoner of war (PoW) camp in Rawalpindi is now the subject of a crowd-funded movie by Hyderabadi film-maker Taranjiet Singh Namdhari.