From Studying Under Kerosene Lamps To Being Invited By Oppenheimer
The Unsung Physicist Who Once Impressed The World's Brightest Minds
From a small village in Kerala lit only by kerosene lamps to the elite halls of Princeton, shoulder-to-shoulder with J. Robert Oppenheimer. This is the forgotten story of T.K. Radha — one of India’s earliest women in theoretical physics.
Born in 1938 in Thayyur, she entered a world that didn’t celebrate daughters. But Radha grew up to shatter every expectation.
Some women carry the dreams of generations in their hands.
This Independence Day, let’s remember Urmila Saxena, a brilliant student who mastered a rare 8-subject BA, taught in a college, and believed strongly: “Women must be independent.”
Her legacy flows through her daughter, a scientist and educator, and her granddaughter, a civil servant, proving that one girl’s education can set in motion the freedom story of an entire family.
Swipe to see how her grandson, journalist Amit Bhatnagar, remembers his nani!
How far would you go to stay honest, even if it almost killed you?
IAS officer Rinku Singh Rahi didn’t stop.
Day 1: He made a clerk do sit-ups for peeing in public.
When lawyers protested, he did the sit-ups himself. The video went viral.
36 hours later, he was transferred. But this wasn’t the first time he challenged the status quo.
Scroll down to meet India’s courageous bureaucrat! >>