She could have been an IAS officer; she even wrote the exam. But an interview with the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) happened. She got through and was asked to join immediately. Today, she is hailed as the ‘Missile Woman of India’ and ‘Agniputri ‘(one born of fire) afterContinue Reading
The award was given in Delhi on November 18Continue Reading
I dream of a society with no menace of malnutritionContinue Reading
Kiran Kumar Singh from Odisha has been working in the Philippines since 1999.Continue Reading
Father Cedric Anthony Bout celebrated his 100th birthday on November 11Continue Reading
When Ganesh Devy, a former professor of English, embarked on a search for India’s languages, he expected to walk into a graveyard, littered with dead and dying mother tongues. Instead, he says, he walked into a “dense forest of voices”, a noisy Tower of Babel in one of the world’sContinue Reading
Soda Village: As the sun begins to set on the village of Soda in western India, Chhavi Rajawat walks through the dusty streets, stopping to chat with residents who emerge from the wooden doorways of their homes to greet her. Folding their hands together and bending to touch 39-year-old Rajawat’sContinue Reading
His father had sent him to a Teresa center in KolkataContinue Reading
by Philip Mathew Kottayam: Sr. Thresiamma Mathew is a women’s rights activist and an advocate of gender equality. She has helped some 2,500 women from economically poor families to become professional masons when it was unthinkable to employ female masons in her home state of Kerala, southern India. Mathew joinedContinue Reading
Sixty years ago this nation was the richest and the most educated nationContinue Reading
