The New York Times’ obits editor, Amy Padnani salutes the obscure, the forgotten and the ignored in the newspaper’s well-known series
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For Indian teen who launched village library, it’s about more than books
Eighteen-year-old Sadiya is used to taking on challenges. This one came closer to home: setting up the only library in her family’s ancestral village to open up new worlds for young readers
A unique university in Rajasthan is teaching women how to fly
Banasthali Vidyapith, an 83-year-old institution in Tonk district, trains women in aviation, nanotechnology and pharmacy
A corpse burner’s wrestling pit
There was a time when upper-caste ‘pehelwans’ wrestled in the ‘akhada’ that belonged to the low-caste Dom community