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This Corporate Professional Quit his Job to Ensure that Nobody in his City...
A former corporate employee, Goutham Kumar realised that his true calling lay in serving humanity. Meet the man changing lives in Hyderabad. While most of us struggle to stick to our 9-5 work hours,...
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TBI Blogs: How a Resolute Teenager Is Ending Child Marriage in Her Community...
At 17, Nisha has become the face of a revolution by taking a difficult, even dangerous, stand against child marriage in her community. Here’s how it happened. Nisha remembers her childhood as being...
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TBI Blogs: 10 Things All Indian Children Should Be Taught about Gender, for...
Despite sustained efforts, India continues to have one of the most skewed ratios for equal opportunities between genders. This National Girl Child Day, it is important to realise that a huge part of...
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Acts of Valour: Stories of the 25 Young Lionhearts Who Won the National...
"Bravery is a state of mind. A healthy body helps, but the prime moving force is the mind. Therefore, we need to make the mind strong," said Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he presented the National...
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Little Big Hearts: When Class 2 Students Collected Their Pocket Money to Gift...
Free of bias and prejudice, innocent children sometimes show compassion that surpasses even that of adults. In a heart-warming gesture, class 2 students of a private school in Rajasthan pooled the...
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TBI Blogs: Here’s How the Young National Bravery Award Winners are Selected...
The National Bravery awards will be given to 25 children for 2016, four of whom will receive them posthumously. The awards were first introduced in 1957, and are given in five different categories. But...
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TBI Blogs: A Unique School in Bangalore Takes Lessons From Nature to Provide...
Too many schools focus on academic learning while ignoring other aspects of education that are equally important in a child’s development. Seetha Ananthasivan talks about a school in Bangalore that is...
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Meet the 15-Year-Old Mumbaikar Who Has Recycled 350 Kgs of e-Waste Already!
Two years ago when 15-year-old Mumbaikar Nishant Jain got bronchitis as a result of a dump-yard fire, an idea lit from within – he was going to ensure other kids would not suffer similar consequences....
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App by IIT Bombay Researchers Helps Children With Speech Disabilities...
Researchers from IIT Bombay have put their brains where their humanity lies and have developed an app that will help children with speech disabilities communicate better. The app, called the Jellow...
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TBI Blogs: Hundreds of Underprivileged Kids in Delhi Now Have a New Hobby –...
Quizzing culture is an integral part of many schools and students’ lives. However, many underprivileged children are unable to experience the same. A new initiative is bringing the joy of quizzing to...
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Beggars Are Studying Abroad and Child Labourers Are Becoming Doctors, Thanks...
Recently, the heart-warming story of Jayavel, a beggar from the streets of Chennai studying in the United Kingdom, went viral. The Better India team spoke to Jayavel and discovered some amazing...
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TBI Blogs: How One Ordinary Woman From a Village in West Bengal Is Making...
The pinnacle of empowering disabled individuals and their families is when parents of deaf children take the initiative to be leaders in their own communities. Muslima Bibi and the Malancha Sadhan...
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This Indian-Origin Entrepreneur Made It to Forbes 30 Under 30 List of...
Meet Vivek Kopparthi, an Indian-origin resident of Arizona, US, who was recently named in the Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list of super achievers. Here’s why. A few years ago, an engineer named Sivakumar...
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B-School Students Organize a One-Of-Its-Kind Fest for Children From...
Remember that feeling when your favourite festival is only days away? That tingling sensation, when you can’t wait to be part of the excitement. For hundreds of children living in and around Kochi,...
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TBI Blogs: Casteism, Illiteracy, Child Labour, Child Marriage – 13-Year-Old...
Casteism and discrimination is still a problem in many parts of rural India. This 13-year-old has initiated a fight against these social evils in her village, vowing to eradicate casteism, illiteracy,...
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How Girls in Kerala Took Down an Illegal Liquor Store Near Their School
Every day the girls of Holy Angels School in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, have to pass a roadside liquor store while going to and fro from classes. It left them feeling vulnerable and unsafe. Wanting to...
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These Determined Teens From Maharashtra Are Helping Their Peers Fight...
Children are the custodians of the future, and empowering them with information that helps them become changemakers can go a long way to improving society. A UNICEF initiative is now doing just that in...
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Why These NRIs Chose to Return to India After Years Abroad
Being Indian turned out to be so much more than owning a black-and-gold passport. Some say it’s the weather. Others cite family and friends. For many, quite unabashedly, it’s clearly the food. A UN...
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She Fought All Odds to Get a Degree, Now She’s Trying to Build a Public...
“We get offers from the nearby competitor schools, too, to join on a higher salary. But money is not what I am here for. I want to give and gain knowledge. That’s what a teacher is supposed to do,...
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MY STORY: How a Ritual of Telling My Kids Bedtime Stories Converted Me Into...
From making up bedtime stories for his 2-year-old daughter, to authoring a book of bedtime stories - Suresh Ediga writes about his journey. Kids are curious by nature. In fact, very curious. Much...
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