Sawai Madhopur

Meet Suraj Bai Meena, who fought several odds and a deep bias against women to become Ranthambore National Park’s first woman naturalist.

One lesson that forest officers today can learn from Fateh Singh Rathore’s life is that their loyalties should only be with the forests – and not politicians or superior officers.

“I happened to visit Chandipur in Odisha for test firing of missiles and the people of the state became very close to my heart. When I cleared the UPSC, I opted for Odisha as my first preference."