Women who refuse to do India’s dirtiest job
2016-03-02
Ranikumari Khokar is campaigning to end a caste-based practice that condemns women to cleaning human waste by handContinue Reading
Civil service officer beats blindness with vision
2016-02-29
Patna boy pens fictional novel on hostility differently abled people faceContinue Reading
‘No idea can be anti-national’
2016-02-25
“Shall we sit in the sun?” asks Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, pulling a garden chair behind him. An old nameplate bearing his late dentist father’s name is still fixed on the front wall of the nearly 100-year-old house, surrounded by mango and Dehradun’s famous litchi trees. “I spend time sitting hereContinue Reading
Missionary of Mercy from Indian Salesians
2016-02-23
Pope has sent forth 1,000 Missionaries of MercyContinue Reading
Garo women asked to return to weaving
2016-02-19
Selsella: Meghalaya chief minister Mukul Sangma today inaugurated a common facility centre-cum-handloom production unit in this town in West Garo Hills in a bid to provide local weavers an opportunity to start their own ventures. The unit was set up as part of a special initiative of the state governmentContinue Reading
Village forms ‘ hargila army’
2016-02-18
Dadara: It’s an army without arms. “Armed” with the commitment to conserve greater adjutant storks, 14 women self-help groups of Dadara village in Kamrup district have formed a ” hargila army”, under the leadership of NGO Aaranyak’s greater adjutant stork project team. The aim of the “army” is to removeContinue Reading
Gospel of the doughty Thomas
2016-02-18
On April 4, 1579, a young Englishman named Thomas Stephens boarded the Laurenco, a ship sailing to India, at Lisbon, Portugal, clinging to his most precious possession: his faith. A Roman Catholic, he was compelled to leave Wiltshire, his hometown in England, as it was a time when Catholics were beingContinue Reading
From child labourers, girls turn into hockey players
2016-02-17
Student captaining Bengal Under-14 team wants to become policewomanContinue Reading
‘Tea lady’ inspires people to give up opium cultivation in Arunachal
2016-02-15
The foray of a resident of a village in Arunachal Pradesh into tea plantation inspired scores of people in the area to follow her example with many of them giving up growing opium. Affectionately called ‘tea lady’, Basamlu Krisikro, a resident of the remote Wakro village in Lohit district, startedContinue Reading
2 billion meals for schoolkids, this IITian shows the way
2016-02-10
Bengaluru: Its 12 noon at the government school in DJ Halli, northeast Bengaluru. Hundreds of little faces are fixed on the van that has carried their lunch. For 15 years, every afternoon, the Bengaluru headquartered Akshaya Patra Foundation (APF) has been bringing smiles on faces of 1.4 million children. AndContinue Reading