What and When Mahatma Gandhi was unceremoniously evicted from the first-class carriage of a train in South Africa’s Pietermaritzburg on the night of June 7, 1893, for being a person of color. How Gandhi was on his way from Durban to Pretoria in the train when a...
Many women give up on their childhood dreams especially if they had a failed marriage and single mother responsibilities. Not 52-year-old Mandeep Kaur. Hers is a story of grit, determination, perseverance and eventual glory: A girl who could barely speak English...
A series of unplanned coincidences: that’s how R Gopalakrishnan, management veteran and former honcho at Tata Sons, Hindustan Lever (now Hindustan Unilever) and Unilever Arabia, describes his career that spans over five decades. Widely regarded as one of India’s...
(Suruchi Kapur Gomes, May 1) It was 1964, and a 23-year-old impressionable girl left the cocoon of her sheltered life straddled with a medical degree from Nagpur and a stethoscope in hand. She was the first Indian woman doctor in the UAE, who today has an unequivocal...
