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A solar power bank for street vendors? Prerna Wadikar from Bengaluru has built a device using lithium ion technology that makes access to portable energy more affordable.

From favouring poor farmers as a Chief Magistrate in Asansol to funding 'illegal' pamphlets by the Communist Party of India’s Bombay branch and sheltering 'fugitives' dedicated to the cause of freedom, Michael John Carritt's love and empathy for the Indian people made him a strong ally in India's independence struggle.

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

As the legendary science fiction author Arthur C Clarke once suggested, “JBS Haldane was perhaps the most brilliant science popularizer of his generation”. #LostTales

“I’m comfortable that I’m leaving Calcutta Rescue in good hands. I’m incapable of running it. We have a Governing Council and a CEO. I’m happy to go. There’s an old German saying that everything has an end. Except the sausage, which has two. The Germans are very fond of sausages,” quips the doctor.

She was just 14 when her farmer father died. But destiny was on her side. At 26, she left behind a life of comfort in New York and returned to India to crack the UPSC exam!

Amazon's CEO and other business leaders have backed the doctor, who has even authored bestselling books.

What would quite literally be a living nightmare for scores of people, was instead a dream come true for Latika when she got the opportunity of working with the tiger population in the early nineties!

The prestigious university has announced the introduction of compulsory modules covering Indian history for their undergraduate history students.

This class 12 student was selected after writing a paper on the Black Hole Theory.