Sulagitti Narasamma started helping in deliveries in her 20s.
Many of the Padma Shri awardees are normal citizens who do ‘extraordinary’ things for the country like serving the poor, establishing free schools etc.
Phoolbasan Bai Yadav consolidated various groups under the Maan Bamleshwari Janhit Kare Samiti, an NGO named after Goddess Durga.
Born in that stupendous year of 1947, in Kolar Gold Fields, Karnataka, he moved to Bangalore at 16 and began to work as a