I come from a very simple Jain Kutchi family. My father came to Mumbai from Kutch. He started his business…
As a child, I was acutely aware of my socio-economic background & my gender, which played a huge role in…
I come from a small village called Ramgarh in Jharkhand. When I was in 5th standard, I shifted to UP,…
Till the 10th standard, I lived and studied in Bansa, a small village in Uttar Pradesh. I shifted to Lucknow…
My story is the story of most Indians, many of whom come from small towns & kasbas and are first-generation…
How we are brought up and where we are brought up really has an impact on what we think and…
I was born in Nigeria because my father was there for a teaching assignment. We came back to India when…
I grew up when terrorism was rife in Punjab. In fact, the day I was born, there was a curfew…
I grew up in Nanded in Marathwada. It is a small city in the hinterlands of Maharashtra. The region I…
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,…