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Meet Sailesh, Who Gave Up a Plush Corporate Job to Improve Elderly Healthcare
Sailesh Mishra was raised in a joint family. Activism, he says, runs in his blood. The grandson of a freedom fighter, young Sailesh was always vocal about the need to better society, never shied away...
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Equality for All: How Delhi’s Hijra Habba Celebrates Transgender Identities
“I’m neither a boy nor a girl. I am a transformed man,” says 28-year-old Keaaviiraag Poddar. Assigned female at birth, Poddar has just begun the process of getting a sex reassignment surgery in July...
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English, Math Training: How a Mumbai Org is Uplifting Hearing Impaired Kids
TEACH, or the Training and Educational Centre for Hearing impaired is an initiative that helps deaf students from vernacular medium schools. It also assists them with higher education and professional...
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A Coffee That Benefits the Consumer, Producer, and Animals – Find Out More
When conservation meets coffee, it serves as a wake up call for more than just the morning blues. Husband and wife team Avinash Sosale and Dr. Krithi Karanth founded Wild Kaapi- a wildlife friendly...
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Set in a Difficult Terrain, This Radio Station Spreads Cheer to Two Lakh...
It’s their confidence you first notice when you walk into the office. In an office in Tara Gram, 20 kilometres away from Jhansi, Gauri, Kaushalaya, Matadeen and Gujrup are constantly multitasking. They...
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Hitchhiking to Cycling, This 74-year old Farmer Will Give You Some Serious...
“If you are passionate about something, money will never be an obstacle,” says 74-year-old Rajaram Patil proudly. Patil swears to travel as much as he can, and if money is an issue, his solution is to...
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How a Trust Pulled 1,800 Slum Kids off Dehradun’s Streets and Gave Them...
Hope is an alien concept if you’re born in Dehradun’s Bindal slum, lining the side banks of the unpredictable Bindal river. Your parents are mostly daily wage labourers working at construction sites....
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Why Shouldn’t the Deaf Learn Martial Arts? This Instructor Has Proved They Can!
Not all Karate instructors would know how to teach profoundly deaf children. It’s not only a daunting but also a very demanding task. However, there is one instructor who has accepted that challenge....
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Here’s How This Pune Woman Grew Her Own Food Organically and Fed Her Family...
An organic wave is sweeping through Pune, as people increasingly buy food grown without the use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides. However, Sujata Naphade is far ahead of this wave – she grows...
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How This App Helps 50,000 Farmers With Timely and Factual Agricultural Info
Farmers contribute tremendously to the Indian economy, but sadly are some of the poorest individuals in the country. A farmer in my village killed himself because he was cheated with adulterated cotton...
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How Virtual Healthcare Vans Are Taking High-Quality Medical Technology to...
India has a dismal doctor-to-patient ratio – around 1:1,900, against the UN-prescribed 1:1,000. The disparity is especially high in rural areas, with about 70 per cent of the country’s population...
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This Levelfield School’s Unconventional Methods Are Changing the Concept of...
He was all of 33 when his friends, acquaintances, colleagues and the wider circle of people around him thought he’d taken leave of his senses. And who really could blame them ? The year was 2009. An...
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Instead of Waiting for the Govt, These Mumbai Kids Clear Garbage By Themselves
It takes courage to go against the flow, and in this case, against the accumulation of tons of waste in and around Turbhe, Navi Mumbai, which was steadily becoming unlivable. Students of Samta Hindi...
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Nomadic Poets: Meet the Bahurupi Artist Whose Passion Keeps the Art Form Alive
Meet Sudam Bhau Chavan, 65, from Osmanabad district, who is inspiring a generation of Bahurupi artists with his passion for the art-form. Sudam Bhau Chavan Bahurupis are professional storytellers or...
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After 17 Years, Farmer Balwan Has Created a Bigger, Better Onion All by Himself
There’s an idiom in English, “knowing your onions”. If someone holds expertise in a field, practice or trade, they are said to be knowing their onions. While it’s always used in a figurative sense,...
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For Fifty Years, This Master has Been Filling the World With Harmoniums
“I will make harmoniums until my body supports me,” says Tatu Mistri as he looks at the 50-year-old musical instrument he made when he was in his 20s. Tatu Motiram Mistri is from a village called...
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Meet The Company Behind Drinking Water ATMs in 1800 Indian villages
By Namrata Gulati Sapra Whenever we run short of cash, we rush to an ATM to withdraw money and life’s beautiful again! What if there was a similar provision which one could rely on every time there was...
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Meet Anil Patil, Who Trains Rural Kids in Sports and Refuses to Charge Them...
“I could not complete my dream of making a career as a sportsman, but I now see thousands of children from rural India fulfilling their dreams with a little help from me,” says 42-year-old Anil, with a...
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Here Are 10 Amazing & Innovative Methods Transforming How Indians Are Learning!
With more than 1.5 million schools, 260 million enrolments and 12 million teachers, India has the largest, most diverse and complicated learning systems in the world. While access to education has been...
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Love for a Lake Transformed This Mumbai Couple Into Environmental Crusaders
The story of Shruti and Sunil Agarwal, residents of Nerul in Navi Mumbai, showcases the transformation of two regular citizens into the stakeholders of environmental protection and conservation. The...
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