Upendra Kumar is a tuberculosis survivor and Champion from Garhwa District in Jharkhand. In 2015, Upendra first developed symptoms of TB. He faced a lot of stigma and discrimination from his family and neighbours and tried to keep his TB diagnosis a secret. “I remember – I had been coughing for some time, and I thought it was a normal cough,” he recollects. Although his health didn’t improve, he did not tell his family as he thought they would get worried. Upendra happened to meet a health worker in the neighbourhood, and they discussed his condition. On the health worker’s advice, he went to the Primary Health Centre (PHC) in Ramna, where he was eventually diagnosed with TB.