Tag: Nobel Peace Laureate

The statesman is to be buried next to his wife in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery, the burial place of many of Russia's most famous politicians, writers and composers.

After completing electrical engineering degree in Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh, he worked as a teacher for some time. But destiny had something else in store for him. In 1980, at the age of 26, he left teaching and founded the organisation, Bachpan Bachao Andolan, which has so far freed 85,000-odd children from slave-like conditions in India. […]