A.P.J. Abdul Kalam: The Newspaper Boy Who Reached for the Stars
He caught newspapers thrown from a moving train, and told a teacher he did not understand. That honesty carried him all the way to the stars.
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Jane Goodall: The Girl Who Watched a Hen Lay an Egg
A four-year-old disappeared for an afternoon and came home filthy, thrilled and long past dark. What her mother did next shaped the rest of her life.
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Arunima Sinha: The Amputee Who Climbed Everest
Arunima Sinha was a national volleyball player when robbers threw her from a moving train and a second train took her leg below the knee. Two years and one prosthetic limb later, she stood on the summit of Mount Everest, the first female amputee in the world to get there.
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Michael Faraday: The Bookbinder’s Apprentice Who Read Everything He Bound
A blacksmith’s son with almost no schooling was sent, at fourteen, to bind books for a living. Nobody taught him science. He read his way to it — one volume at a time, off the very shelf he was meant to be stitching — and became the man whose discoveries make it possible to switch on a light.
