EpicsClassic retold
Ekalavya's Gift
A boy from a forest tribe is turned away by the great teacher Drona. So he makes a clay statue of Drona and teaches himself, until he is a better archer than the princes. Then his teacher asks for a terrible fee.
SportsBiography
Barefoot in Rome
A shepherd's son from Ethiopia was added to his Olympic team at the last minute. On a torchlit night in Rome in 1960, he ran the marathon with no shoes on.
MotivationBiography
Dancing Again
At sixteen, Sudha Chandran was a rising young classical dancer. Then an accident on the road took her leg. Everyone assumed her dancing days were over. She did not.
FoundersBiography
From Petrol Pump to Reliance
A schoolteacher's son from a Gujarat fishing village went to work as a clerk in a hot foreign port. He came home with a little money, a rented room and an idea. What he built changed how ordinary Indians thought about owning a share of a company.
MotivationBiography
Never Too Late
Anna Mary Moses spent her life on farms, raising a family and doing endless chores. In her late seventies she picked up a paintbrush. The world came to know her as Grandma Moses.
HistoryHistorical narrative
One Small Step
In July 1969, three men rode a giant rocket towards the Moon. With alarms sounding and fuel running low, two of them flew a fragile craft down to its grey surface, while the world held its breath.
Famous LivesBiography
Sisters and Brothers
In 1893, a young Indian monk with no invitation, no money and no friends in America stood up in a crowded hall in Chicago. His first five words brought thousands of people to their feet.
Famous LivesBiography
The Boy Who Gave the Blind Books
Louis Braille lost his sight as a small child in a French village. At fifteen, working late at night with a stylus and a sheet of paper, he invented a way for blind people to read with their fingertips.
MotivationBiography
The Deaf Composer
On a spring evening in Vienna in 1824, a packed theatre heard a new symphony for the first time. The man who wrote it could not hear a single note.
SportsBiography
The Dhing Express
A rice farmer's daughter from a village in Assam used to play football in the paddy fields. In 2018, she became the first Indian to win a world title on the running track.
FoundersBiography
The First Self-Made Millionaire
Sarah Breedlove was born to parents who had been enslaved, orphaned at seven and widowed by twenty. She washed other people's laundry for a living. Then she found a problem she understood better than anyone, and built a business to solve it.
FoundersBiography
The Man Who Built a Nation of Steel
Jamsetji Tata dreamed of steel mills, power stations and a great institute of science for a country that was not yet free. He did not live to see most of them built. This is the story of how he planted them anyway.
FoundersBiography
The Mouse That Saved a Studio
Walt Disney's first studio went bankrupt. His second lost its star character and nearly all its artists in a single meeting. On the long train ride home, he needed a new idea, and fast.
Famous LivesBiography
The Patent Clerk
In 1905, a 26-year-old clerk in a Swiss patent office, with no university job and no laboratory, wrote four papers in his spare time. Together they changed how we understand light, atoms, space and time.
True StoriesTrue story
The Raft Kon-Tiki
In 1947, six men lashed nine balsa logs together and pushed off from the coast of Peru, heading for islands thousands of kilometres across the Pacific. Experts said the raft would sink within weeks.
SportsBiography
The Shoeshine Boy Who Won the World Cup
A poor boy in Brazil, who played barefoot with a ball made of socks, once saw his father cry over a lost World Cup. Eight years later, aged seventeen, he kept a promise.
SportsBiography
The Stolen Bicycle
A twelve-year-old boy in Louisville lost his new bicycle and walked, furious, into a basement boxing gym. He became Muhammad Ali, and one day he risked everything for what he believed.
For KidsClassic retold
The Ugly Duckling
One egg in the mother duck's nest is bigger than the rest, and the chick that hatches from it looks nothing like his brothers and sisters. Nobody wants him. Not yet.
Famous LivesBiography
The Newspaper Boy from Rameswaram
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam delivered newspapers as a boy on a small island town in South India. He grew up to lead India's space and missile programmes, and became its most loved President.
MotivationBiography
Born Again on the Mountain
In 2011, Arunima Sinha lost her leg after being thrown from a moving train. Two years later she stood on the summit of Mount Everest.
Famous LivesBiography
The Girl from Karnal Who Touched the Stars
As a girl in a small town in Haryana, Kalpana Chawla watched planes and drew spaceships. She became the first woman born in India to go to space.
Famous LivesBiography
The Clerk Who Wrote to Cambridge
Srinivasa Ramanujan failed his college exams and worked as a clerk, yet his notebooks were full of mathematics nobody had seen before. One letter changed everything.