Jeenal Gala

I come from a very simple Jain Kutchi family. My father came to Mumbai from Kutch. He started his business…

      Friday, February 3, 2023

Kruthika R.

As a child, I was acutely aware of my socio-economic background & my gender, which played a huge role in…

      Friday, February 25, 2022

Asif Iqbal Tanha

I come from a small village called Ramgarh in Jharkhand. When I was in 5th standard, I shifted to UP,…

      Thursday, September 16, 2021

Jatin Lalit Singh

Till the 10th standard, I lived and studied in Bansa, a small village in Uttar Pradesh. I shifted to Lucknow…

      Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Fahad Ahmad

My story is the story of most Indians, many of whom come from small towns & kasbas and are first-generation…

      Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Akash Banerjee

How we are brought up and where we are brought up really has an impact on what we think and…

      Thursday, March 25, 2021

Sayema Rahman

I was born in Nigeria because my father was there for a teaching assignment. We came back to India when…

      Sunday, February 21, 2021

Jaiveer Shergill

I grew up when terrorism was rife in Punjab. In fact, the day I was born, there was a curfew…

      Saturday, January 2, 2021

Dr. Suraj Yengde

I grew up in Nanded in Marathwada. It is a small city in the hinterlands of Maharashtra. The region I…

      Tuesday, December 8, 2020

Zeba Warsi

My family’s one of poets and writers. My grandfather (the first graduate in his village & an Urdu scholar) wrote…

      Thursday, December 3, 2020

Prashant Kanojia

I was born in a slum in Kurla, Mumbai. We lived in a small, 80 square feet house. I studied…

      Saturday, November 21, 2020

Aalim Javeri

My maternal great-grandfather was Mohammed Ali Jinnah’s law partner. During partition, people wanted him to migrate as well. But he…

NewsPlatform       Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Shahbaz Ansar

 I don’t talk much in my interviews; I just let people speak their minds. On Discovery Channel, there is a…

NewsPlatform       Monday, November 2, 2020

Kawalpreet Kaur

My family was affected and their lives were turned upside down in the 1984 massacre. Although I wasn’t born then,…

      Monday, October 26, 2020

Ruchira Chaturvedi

I come from a normal, middle class family. My father was a CA and my mother is a Sanskrit professor.…

      Thursday, October 22, 2020

Saket Gokhale

My father is a police officer and my mother used to work in theatre but later became a homemaker. Every…

      Friday, October 9, 2020

Srivatsa YB

I studied computer engineering and like almost every other young Bangalorean then, I worked in IT after graduation. Following this…

      Friday, October 2, 2020

Dr. Saurabh Bajpai

I was born in Lakhimpur Kheri in UP, on the border of India and Nepal. My father passed away when…

NewsPlatform       Friday, September 25, 2020

Deepika Singh Rajawat

I always felt I am different, even when I was just a kid. For some strange reason, I felt very…

NewsPlatform       Thursday, September 17, 2020

Waheed-ur-Rehman Para

I was deeply influenced by my grandfather, who was a social activist. He was always helping people in our district.…

      Friday, September 11, 2020

Hasiba Amin

I was always a rebel, wanting to do more and do things differently. And I was particularly struck by the…

NewsPlatform       Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Nawal Kishore

Even though he was only semi-literate, my father (who was a Mukhiya of Badlu Tola, a small panchayat in Bihar)…

Newsplatform       Saturday, July 4, 2020

Surbhi Dwivedi

My father left us when I was just 14, and everything changed after that. Everyone started avoiding us and this…

NewsPlatform       Thursday, June 25, 2020

Tikender Singh Panwar

In university, I was jailed for 2 years on a frivolous charge. In actuality, it was because I was leading…

NewsPlatform       Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Arun Pandiyan Sundaram

I come from a small hamlet in a village called Bommahalli in Dharmapuri district of Tamil Nadu. My village is…

NewsPlatform       Saturday, May 30, 2020

Saral Patel

One day, instead of our tuition teacher teaching us, his elder brother started talking to us. He was very sweet,…

NewsPlatform       Saturday, May 30, 2020