Indian Heroes Calendar (IHC) Experience
As the 2020 comes to an end, I would like to share my experience of working on an initiative started this year. Inspiration As a parent, I would often tell stories to my son, and several times the stories would be of famous people based on my reading. Over the years, I came to know about many names from different sources, through different people, and realized that there are so many such stories we do not know about. There are names whose life can provide so much inspiration but are hardly known or forgotten in the layers of history. With this thought, I started to look around, collecting names of people wo helped shape India in last two centuries. Focus was mostly around freedom fighters, revolutionaries, scientists, armed forces, artists, poets, authors, and educationists. I was lucky to get guidance from Shri Arvind Gupta whose provided me his book ‘ Bright Sparks ’ that contained stories of India’s scientists. From Rachna Rawat’s ‘ The Brave ’, I got stories of Param Vir Chakra her