Indian Legends

Dr Seema Rao has trained over 20,000 soldiers from Indian Armed Forces, police and paramilitary. Seema’s is a remarkable story of persistence and strength. As the Buddhist parable goes, the higher the rocks in its path, the greater the wave. Having spent her childhood in Mumbai being fearful and timid, she grew up to be a brave adult, who confronted each fear head-on and overcame it, no matter what it took.

Narinder Singh, the Indian-born American physicist hogged the limelight for becoming the first person in the world to depict that light can travel in bent glass fibres. His research paper captioned “A Flexible Fiberscope, using Static Scanning” appeared in the scientific journal Nature in its January 2, 1954 issue and opened the door for instruments such as endoscopes and laser probes.

Savarkar understood that for India to survive in the modern world, it has to become a modern nation too. He also understood that unless India becomes an industrial power with the modern means of waging war, it simply can’t resist the imperialist powers. But he understood something more that several of his nationalist contemporaries failed to grasp. He understood that India can’t become a nation as long as it remains a feudal-agrarian society disintegrated into numerous castes and communities.

As she landed at Iqaluit Airport in Canada on Monday midnight, after a gruelling 3,000 km long flight, under adverse and extreme weather conditions, following the take-off from Wick, Scotland (United Kingdom), with brief stopovers in Greenland and Iceland, she achieved her extraordinary feat. She was a part of Women Empower Expedition – the first all-women team to circumnavigate the world in LSA.

The brave martyr’s name is 2nd Lieutenant Arun Khetarpal, and he is the reason why India won the war against Pakistan in 1971. However, before we tell you more about the biopic on Arun Khetarpal, let us tell you who he was and what he did for India’s victory.