Rongmei Nagas

In March 1994, Colonel (Retd.) DPK Pillay, a Shaurya Chakra Awardee, saved the lives of two young kids during a gunfight with militants in Manipur’s Longdi Pabram village. But he didn’t stop at that, going on to uplift the village in several ways.

A man who built an army of 500 to take on the British, Haipou Jadonang has been largely overlooked by writers and historians. It's time this changed. #ForgottenHeroes #IndianIndependence