Can a 14-Year-Old Stop Her Own Forced Marriage? This Brave Girl Did It
It is estimated that 47% of girls in India are married before their 18th birthday. However, a gutsy teenager from Kolkata refused to become yet another statistic and decided to fight against the...
View ArticleIndian Kids Beat Art Entries From 193 Countries to Feature in NASA Calendar
Beating over 3000 entries from 193 countries across the globe, two schoolchildren from Tamil Nadu have found a space for their artworks in NASA’s 2018 Commercial Crew Program Calendar Art Contest....
View ArticleMeet the 18 Fearless Kids Who Will Get the National Bravery Award 2017!
From the 14-year old who lost her own life while trying to save two boys in a 30-feet pond in Karnataka to a six-year-old from Odisha who grappled with a five-foot crocodile to save her older sister,...
View ArticleWhat Is 23 X 34432? This 12-Year-Old U.P Labourer’s Son Can Do It in Seconds!
Growing up how many of you remember disliking math with a passion? Memorising tables even up to 20 was a humongous task that made most of us want to tear our hair out! But not for 12-year-old Chirag...
View ArticleAll of 14, This National Child Awardee Had an Amazing Plan for His Prize Money
Born on 30th October 2003 and all of 14 years of age, Ayush Kishore is certainly a child wonder. He has a huge list of awards and recognition to his credit. He has been the winner of mathematics...
View ArticleHow the Budget Can Fix India’s Malnourishment Problem
Aradhna, a six-year-old girl, living in a Kechhodadar village, refuses to believe that the Anganwadi Centre is the only means to a healthy childhood for her brother and herself. The reason is simple;...
View ArticleIndian Origin Boy Beats Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking in the Mensa IQ Test
The Mensa IQ Test has always had the reputation of being the most elite in the world, and only a select few—1% of the global population to be exact—are fortunate enough to be a part of Mensa, the...
View ArticleConstruction Workers’ Kids Have a Safe Haven, Thanks to This Bengaluru Couple
Bengaluru is an ever-expanding city that attracts many migrant workers from various parts of the country. The nature of their work is such that they move from one place to another once the project sees...
View Article15-Year-Old Mathura Boy Invents Unique Garbage-Collecting Cart!
Necessity is the mother of invention. Nothing better sums up the story of 15-year-old Mathura innovator Sikanto Mandal, who invented the Swachhta cart better. Sikanto, now a Class 12 student, was in...
View ArticleUnder Pressure to Marry Uncle, Gutsy 15-Year-Old Made Education Her Support
A 15-year-old girl is going against her family’s wishes, all for the sake of education. She braves 4 hours of daily bus travel, and long walks, just to go to school in the remote Ippagunta village in...
View ArticleMarried at 10, This Child Bride Braved Emotional Torture to Fight for Her...
Pinki Tanwar was just a 10-year-old when she was married off to Himmat Singh, in Thanagazi, a town in the Alwar district of Rajasthan. From then on, her life was filled with terror, as he frequently...
View ArticleWill Banning Junk Food Advertisements For Children Work? Here Are Some Answers
Responding to a question on whether the government will ban advertisements for junk food and soft drinks on the lines of cigarettes, Information and Broadcasting Minister Smriti Irani said that it has...
View ArticleThis 16-Year-Old Kashmiri Misses School Often. The Reason Will Leave You...
When 16-year-old Arwa Imtiyaz misses school, her parents and teachers don’t have the heart to yell at her. Because the only reason she misses school is when she is travelling with a group of 250 speech...
View ArticleThis Baby Girl Was Abandoned in a Bin. Now She Has Hundreds Lining up to...
In a shocking, though tragically not rare instance, a six-month-old baby was abandoned in a dumpster on the Moradabad-Agra highway. Whether she was abandoned by her biological parents or abducted by...
View ArticleI Am a Mother of Two Girls and Here’s Why I Don’t Want Them to Be Beautiful
“Aunty I am on a diet, I won’t take sweet even though I like it!” A ten-year-old retorted when one of my friends offered her a sweet that she had made for her kids. “You will turn dark if you play in...
View ArticleAiming for Stars: Jamshedpur Teen Will Visit NASA to Learn About Mars!
14-year-old Anjishnu Satpathy is striving hard to achieve his aim of becoming an astrophysicist, and his quest to reach for the stars has received a major boost by none other than NASA! Anjishnu is a...
View ArticleA Wheelchair That Climbs Stairs? Meet the School Boys Who Made One for Rs 1540
‘Necessity is the mother of all inventions,’ they say. In the case of Rohan Patel and Devdutt Patel, grade 8 students from Anand Niketan School, Mehsana campus, the reason they entered the CBSE...
View ArticleA Home-Run School in Gurugram Is Nurturing Basti Children in a Special Way!
There are superheroes all around us; all we need to do is look closely to identify them. This is a story about Sujata Gaur – who is transforming the lives of many underprivileged children in Gurugram –...
View ArticleThis 12-Year-Old Odisha Boy Literally Snatched His Uncle From the Jaws of Death!
12-year-old Shiku, from a far-flung village in Odisha’s Kendrapara district, has been hailed as a local hero. In the face of danger, he risked his own life to snatch his uncle from the jaws of death....
View ArticleNo Teachers In School, Claim Students Who Walked 20 Km To Fix The Issue
What would you do if you were a student in a school where the teachers were always absent? According to reports, the students of Brahmanagaon Residential School in Bangiriposi, a village in the...
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