EVERYDAY HEROES

  • Bhaskar Rao

    As the Bangalore Police commissioner, I along with my 21,000 strong police force, have had to re-define the word “normal” in the last few months. We worked in 3 shifts, manned almost 400 check posts and used every available resource as a force multiplier to fight the Corona pandemic. When we enforced Section 144, it…

  • Sayan Nath

    I am a senior resident doctor at AIIMS, Trauma centre. I have been deputed to the COVID ICU and have been a part of the contingency preparation process from the beginning. We work in four shifts of six-hours, providing 24/7 care. We follow a seven-day work and a seven-day break routine. Currently, I have just…

  • Prarthana Jagan

    My parents had this dreamy, filmi kind of love marriage. My father was from Tirupattur, my mother was from Lucknow and they met while working together in Chennai and eloped! I was born in Coimbatore and was only 2 months old, when my father was transferred to Bangalore. Our nuclear family became complete, with the…

  • Sunil Pokhriyal

    As a third generation soldier, joining the Indian Army was never one of the many career choices I had – it was my first and only choice. The call of duty, the pride of the uniform and the zeal to serve the motherland, were always the biggest passion and inspiration for me. I grew up…

  • Alex Mathew

    Even as a child, I was a free bird. I loved singing and dancing and watching movies and acting and reading books. It was only in school that the bullying began, with people telling me I “walk like a lady” and such. I only went to school to study. There was nothing else in it…

  • Mohamed Farooq

    Turmeric, kumkum, agarbattis, wick are some of the items used in pooja. And then there are the other items like coconut, adike (betel nut), dhoop, Kapur (camphor)… My name is Mohammed Farooq. I am a Muslim man and I run a Hindu pooja store. My grandfather opened this store in 1969 to sell coconuts and…

  • BAMBA BAKIYA

    I started singing when I was an eight-year-old child named Bhakiyaraj. It was only thirty years later that I was recognized as a man named Bamba Bakiya. I grew up in a joint family to a father who loved music but could not pursue it. He spent a lot of energy pushing my musical journey,…

  • Gubendran

    I was born as the 7th child to a fishing family in Veerampattinam, Pondicherry. When I was 5, my father taught me how to swim. When I was 6, I went out fishing for the first time with my dad. We had a kattumaram, a manually handled wooden boat. My dad could even spot fish…