Baba Banda Singh Bahadur was born in the Rajput family of Rajouri in the year 1670. He was the first Sikh military leader to wage an offensive war against the Mughal rulers of India and extended the Sikh territory. To get full access to this story, "Subscribe Now", in just Re.1 for the next 24 hours.

Major Laishram Jyotin Singh displayed exemplary courage, grit, selflessness, and valor in the face of a terrorist suicide bomber attack and made the supreme sacrifice during the attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul. To get full access to this story, "Subscribe Now", in just Re.1 in the next 24 hours.

Very few of us know that Patna, the state capital of Bihar, has a namesake in the faraway Scotland which owes its name to the eastern Indian city. To get full access to this story, "Subscribe Now", in just Re.1 for the next 24 hours.

Is Mahatma Gandhi relevant? This question was posed to groups of students and some young professionals. To get full access to this story, "Subscribe Now", in just Re.1 for the next 24 hours...

In the largely male-dominated society, a woman stepped up to challenge the conventions of the conservative society and realized her dreams. Anna Chandy, the first woman to become a high court judge, not only in India but in the entire British Commonwealth, was a trailblazer, and she emerged as an icon of the 20th century. To get full access to this story, "Subscribe Now", in just Re.1 for the next 24 hours.

A photograph speaks a thousand words. A photograph, popular in history, shows an Indian soldier in a turban sitting next to Pakistan Lieutenant General Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi as he signs an unconditional surrender of more than 93,000 Pakistan soldiers in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka on December 16, 1971. To get full access to this story, "Subscribe Now", in just Re.1 for the next 24 hours.