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Swati Sengupta
Anandi led a very diff erent life from other girls of the times. Her husband
wanted her to study and made sure she could attend school. At the age of
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A little boy growing up in Calcutta (now Kolkata) is brilliant in mathematics.
In school, he is forever remembered as the only student to ever score 110
out of 100…
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I will not let you kill any more. Shantos voice was firm, confident no longer that of a timid fourteen-year-old boy. Shanto has managed the impossible. He has escaped from…
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Birsa Munda lived in one of the villages that dotted the Chhotanagpur
region in today's Jharkhand. He was a dreamy boy with an uncanny ability
to mesmerize not only…
When she was nine years old, Savitri was married to thirteen-year-old
Jyotirao Phule. Savitri yearned to be able to go to school, to read books.
Jyotiba wanted his wife…
Over the course of two intense years Swati Sengupta spoke to dozens of surrendered Maoist soldiers. In this book she focuses on their complex individual narratives and examines the reasons…
Arati Saha was born in 1940, and learnt to swim in the Hooghly river
in Calcutta as a child. At the age of eight, she competed in the National
Championship…
Born in 1907 to a family of farmers in Punjab, Bhagat Singh, at the age of
three, had declared that he was sowing guns so he could fight the British
In a small village in Punjab, little Milkha Singh grew up, loved by his parents,
surrounded by open fields where he could run, play, and fly kites. In the…
Jhalkari Bai grew up in Bhojla, many miles away from the city of Jhansi. Far
from the grand forts and palaces and illustrious kings and queens of Jhansi, in
He exhorted them to set aside old superstitions. And he led them in armed confrontations with the mighty British police forces.The extraordinary life of this great leader comes alive for…
She faced incredible opposition to her work when people attacked her not just with words but even with stones and dung. But nothing could stop her.This is the enduring story…
Supratim Sarkar
‘A riveting book on real-life crimes and how the police solve them. We sleep in peace in a world made safer by these supermen and women in white.’–Sourav Ganguly, cricketer
