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While it’s imperative to give the likes of Sir Roger Penrose his due props for the Physics Nobel Prize this year, it’s imperative to remember on whose shoulders his work stands. They are Indian scientists AK Raychaudhuri and CV Vishveshwara.

He was just 23, but he inspired a following that included Bengal's first novelist, and the mathematician who calculated the height of Everest.

Few Indians know about the legend who so meticulously crafted India's national song, Vande Mataram. Here's the little-known story of Bengal's Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay.

A distinguished meteorologist, Anna Mani was the former Deputy Director General of the Indian Meteorological Department and made significant contributions in the field of solar radiation, ozone and wind energy instrumentation. Here's her inspiring story.

A man whose genius transcended boundaries, Jagdish Chandra Bose was a quintessential polymath: a physicist, a biologist, a botanist, an archaeologist, an author and a connoisseur of fine arts. On his 158th birth anniversary, we bring you the story of his path breaking work on the discovery of plant stimuli.

These 14 canteens are places that not just satiate your hunger pangs with some truly amazing food, but also warm your heart with nostalgia.