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Sampoorna – Helping autistic children express through music
Kilikili trust Sampoorna is a part of the Kilikili Trust, a project founded by Kavitha, Ganesh, and a few of their friends. Kilikili – which in Kannada means the trilling laughter of a child – looks to...
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From ignominy to dignity Udayan Shalinis emerge as a bunch of emancipated and...
Aliya Tabassum’s family is poor and is accustomed to a life of hardship. Being the daughter of a hawker and a housewife, she has seen her parents struggle to make ends meet. Finding it really difficult...
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Making Bharat Swachch since 4 decades, in conversation with the Sulabh...
‘Swachh Bharat’ is recent. ‘Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are post Y2K. But there is a visionary, who started over 4 decades back. His resolve to uplift the lot of the scavenger (manual...
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Manjit Singh Hoonjan walks his love for the City of Joy
Manjit Singh Hoonjan, a third generation Kolkatan, has been romancing the city since childhood Keri Glastonbury from Newcastle, NSW, Australia says, “My partner and I did the ‘Culture Kaleidoscope’...
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Sufia Khatoon uses social media for social development
Sufia Khatoon 12 year old Anjali lives in a slum in Kolkata and like any slum dweller her existence is bleak to say the least. But amidst the gloom, Sufia Khatoon brought colour into this 12 year old’s...
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At Paathshala the students learn the difference between ‘Human Being’ and...
It all happened over a cup of coffee and a brainstorming session in Mumbai. Sometimes the best ideas are born in cafes over ‘adda’ sessions. Paathshala was no different. A brainchild of Rajib Choudhary...
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When a traffic cop swore to stay honest; and a sweeper broke down on...
If you travel to the western suburbs of Bombay often, chances are, you witnessed a silent revolution unfolding over the last one year among the residents, working professionals and labourers. It was a...
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NEWS, Kolkata is engaged in providing solutions to the threats faced by...
The Threat The Sundarban delta, the largest mangrove ecosystem of the world is the only one that boasts of the largest floral and faunal diversity that houses the critically endangered species- the...
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Clothes Box Foundation bridges the gap between the donor and the receiver in...
Bill Gates rightly said, “Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we’d want to get involved.” If you plan to reach out to the...
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A dentist who’s making people laugh
He’s responsible for transforming a dreary subject into rib tickling cartoon images. His website ‘Green Humour’ is a rage and replete with his tongue in cheek wit about the natural world. Rohan...
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Dr Shubhada’s Bhandavya builds relationships of a special kind
Dr. Shubhada H. N When someone says they were married at 16, you’ve already started thinking of not so pleasant outcomes that would determine the course of the person’s life. Even the most optimistic...
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The economist who gave it all up and founded Purkul Youth Development...
Ankit and Amit Naudiyal’s parents moved to Dehradun in the hope of escaping poverty. Ankit today works as an engineer at Infosys. Amit is with the Indian Maritime Services. Meenakshi Pal had a harsh...
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Shake a leg with the dancing frog with ‘Frog Find’
While the older generation seems to struggle with Smartphones, gen Y seems to be born with the love for gizmos. Ask any parent, children these days seem to be demanding more and more screen time. This...
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From being called ‘Jamadarni ka beta’ to starting ‘Movement for Scavenger...
His mother and grandmother were manual scavengers in the same school he studied. They had to clean the toilets without water. And that became young Vimal Kumar’s identity. ‘Jamadarni ka bete’ (son of...
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Kranti – The organization behind Shweta Katti becoming the first girl from an...
Kranti is a wave surging towards happiness – with its missionaries, the daughters of sex workers in Mumbai’s red-light district –taking their shots at attaining their destinies. As I entered the long...
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The man who quit Bollywood to make cheese
As clouds rise up from the gentle Nilgiri hills in Tamil Nadu, in the small town of Coonoor an unlikely resident goes about his work. He has been here before to make films, this time around he’s here...
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‘There are positive father–daughter stories that the world needs to know’ –...
‘Daddy’s girl’, a badge daughters of doting fathers wear with pride. In parenthood, fathers usually don’t take the limelight, but a child knows, when their father plopped them on his shoulders it gives...
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Geetu Ma, the woman who took in 28 children ailing with cancer into her home,...
I think I may have spent an afternoon with the Jawaharlal Nehru of our time. She has two beautiful young daughters – one an engineer and the other studying to be a doctor – who she raised to become as...
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How Mahita Fernandez’s own grumbling belly lead to her feeding 1,22,937 meals...
A midnight hunger pang. A realisation. An idea. A movement. This is pretty much how Mahita Fernandez announced ‘Feed Your Neighbour’ on Facebook and mobilised the community and together, managed to...
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Meet the real-life Munnabhai of Mumbai and let his story teach you love and...
Life has the knack of seeming wearisome, unfair and impossible to even the best, most fortunate of us from time to time. As human beings, our only manufacturing defect is that our spirits are getting...
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Meet the Indore boy who’s travelled to 80 cities, cycled 18,000 km,...
His signature reads ‘Travelpreneur’, and true to that, every time you reach him, he’s in a new state or sometimes even a new country. Aakash Ranison, (born Aakash Mishra), has cycled over 18,000 km...
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How these two twenty year olds are inspiring the world, one story at a time
When Shobhit Banga was 15, he left conventional schooling and moved to Bengaluru to become a world-class cyclist. “I lived in the servant quarter in the house of a government official and started...
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Madhukar Banuri’s dream: 1 million good schools, 10 million invested...
My dream for India and my life vision is that by 2060 every child in India will attain an excellent education. This is what defines me, consumes me and is the purpose of my being. This vision realises...
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How Sheetal Jain, a sex worker’s daughter, learnt to respect her mother’s...
When I was young, my mother used to tell me about herself. She used to dance at bars and bring customers home, so I did understand what her profession was. I lived in the area too (Kamathipura –...
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Amitha Pai believes that One Good Step is all it takes to make a change
The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.” – an early Facebook engineer to Ashlee Vance There are many of us who would like to contribute our time and/or...
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