My family’s one of poets and writers. My grandfather (the first graduate in his village & an Urdu scholar) wrote…
I was born in a slum in Kurla, Mumbai. We lived in a small, 80 square feet house. I studied…
My maternal great-grandfather was Mohammed Ali Jinnah’s law partner. During partition, people wanted him to migrate as well. But he…
I don’t talk much in my interviews; I just let people speak their minds. On Discovery Channel, there is a…
My family was affected and their lives were turned upside down in the 1984 massacre. Although I wasn’t born then,…
I come from a normal, middle class family. My father was a CA and my mother is a Sanskrit professor.…
My father is a police officer and my mother used to work in theatre but later became a homemaker. Every…
I studied computer engineering and like almost every other young Bangalorean then, I worked in IT after graduation. Following this…
I was born in Lakhimpur Kheri in UP, on the border of India and Nepal. My father passed away when…
I always felt I am different, even when I was just a kid. For some strange reason, I felt very…
I was deeply influenced by my grandfather, who was a social activist. He was always helping people in our district.…
I was always a rebel, wanting to do more and do things differently. And I was particularly struck by the…
Even though he was only semi-literate, my father (who was a Mukhiya of Badlu Tola, a small panchayat in Bihar)…
My father left us when I was just 14, and everything changed after that. Everyone started avoiding us and this…
In university, I was jailed for 2 years on a frivolous charge. In actuality, it was because I was leading…
I come from a small hamlet in a village called Bommahalli in Dharmapuri district of Tamil Nadu. My village is…
One day, instead of our tuition teacher teaching us, his elder brother started talking to us. He was very sweet,…