12-YO Boy Invents Rs 35 ‘Swachchta’ Brush For People With Back Pain!
12-year-old Bodhisatva Ganesh Khanderao is no stranger to the limelight. The eco-warrior has been actively raising awareness about the environment from the tender age of six and has been at the...
View ArticleThis Mother Has Helped 1240 Kids With Blood Cancer Get Medical Treatment!
For Monica and Arvind R Vohra, it all started in 2011, when their 5-year-old son, Aaryan, fell sick. Repeated bouts of high fever led to a series of diagnosis, from viral fever, typhoid, to other...
View Article76 YO Bengal Teacher Charges Only Rs 2 in a Year to Teach 350+ Tribal Students
Barely three hours away from the cacophony of Kolkata, the village of Ausgram in Burdwan wakes up to the characteristic aroma of sal forests and rangamati (red soil). The serene silence is only...
View ArticleMother or Father, Who Gets Custody of Child After Divorce and Why?
“Custody of child shall be handed over to such a person who fosters him with care, love and affection.” -Honourable Justice Vinod Prasad As understood commonly, ‘custody’ means ‘guardianship’. This...
View ArticleCouple Saved 3000 Kids After Losing Their Newborn to Congenital Heart Disease!
Lalmati and Mohanlal were over the moon. After trying and waiting for seventeen long years, they were finally going to be parents. But the joy was short-lived, as their son, Shiv, was born 12 weeks...
View ArticleHow a Couple Ignited a Literary Revolution In a Remote Uttarakhand Village!
The quaint little houses in Nainital’s Seem village, appear to be an uncanny depiction of ‘Little boxes on the hillside,’ the iconic Pete Seeger song. Home to barely 362 residents, literacy is quite a...
View ArticleOrphans Are Citizens Too: Meet the 26-YO Woman Fighting For Them in the...
Out of the 20 million orphans in India, less than 1% are in orphanages. 117 districts in India do not have a single orphanage. (Source: MWCD Trackchild-Child Care Institutions in 2015). However, even...
View ArticleBaby Ate The Crayon? Bengaluru Duo Have The Perfect Product For Your Budding...
Debashree Tal, 35, a Bengaluru-based architect has a two and a half-year-old son who loves art. However, the concerned mother wanted to buy non-toxic and safe crayons for her child. “After being unable...
View ArticleCancer Patients to Street Kids: Mumbai Teen Sells Crafts, Raises Funds For...
A Maharashtrian farmer or shetkari stands in a field with very few crops. A Koli fisherwoman garbed in lugda (saree), choli (blouse) and a paanja (scarf), while another stands wearing the traditional...
View ArticleKanpur Tea-Seller Uses 80% Income to Educate 40 Needy Kids, Inspires VVS Laxman!
Over the last one week, Kanpur-based tea-seller, Mohammad Mahboob Malik’s stall situated on a footpath at the Sharda Nagar intersection has been attracting a lot of attention. Why? Because the humble...
View ArticleKolkata’s ‘Food Man’ Joins With Doctors to Open Free Dispensary For Homeless...
Like many other cities of India, Kolkata houses an overlooked floating population – that of the daily wage earners, migrant labourers and the homeless, residing on the city’s footpaths. Putting up...
View ArticleFrom Doorstep to On Wheels: How This Woman Taught Over 1 Lakh Slum Kids in 30...
Barely three decades ago, Mumbai’s Cuffe Parade or Colaba would see barefoot kids from the nearby slum areas chasing the school buses. Attending school in creaseless uniforms, sitting in a classroom...
View ArticleThey Lost Their IAF Son to a Crash. Now They Provide Free Schooling to 350...
When Group Captain (retd) Sharad Tewari and his wife Savita, a social activist, received news that their son, Squadron Leader Shishir Tewari, had lost his life in the Mi-17 V5 crash in Arunachal...
View ArticleCRPF Man Provides 4500+ litres of free Milk to Poor Children In Govt Schools!
A report, jointly released by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) and National Institute of Nutrition (NIN), on prevalence of malnutrition among...
View ArticleWoman Leaves Job, Serves 1 Lakh Meals & Distributes 1000 Blankets To Migrant...
In bustling metropolises like Delhi, children of migrant labourers—security guards, waiters in roadside restaurants, gardeners and cleaners—are often left out of the school system because their...
View ArticleSingle-Use Plastic to Climate Change: 5 Indian Kids Fighting to Save The Planet!
At 12.30 PM, I walk into my younger one’s school to pick him up. I feel scared and angered in equal measures when I am greeted by little faces covered in masks instead of their usual twinkling eyes, or...
View ArticleWhy No Disney Princess From India? 4-YO Makes Her Mom Start This Great...
Snow White, Elsa, Jasmine, Moana, Rapunzel…. The list of Disney princesses is endless. “But, why is there no Disney Princess from India?” This innocent question posed by 4-year-old Sahana Prasanna to...
View Article12 Unique Traditional Board Games to Entertain & Educate Your Kids
A games aisle is heaven for a child. No matter how big a collection they have at home, a new game, a fancy toy is always welcome. So why not gift them a cool game which teaches them something? Have a...
View Article5000+ Dehradun School Kids Collect 555 Kgs of Waste For Plastic Wapsi Abhiyaan!
With an intent to trigger a behavioural change in students, teachers, and families, Dehradun Smart City Limited (DSCL) has come up with an innovative way of tackling its plastic waste issue. Under its...
View ArticleThis Bengaluru NGO Has Turned 2 Lakh Children Nationwide Into Civic Warriors!
Prathiksha was on a visit to Mysuru on Dusshera this year when she saw a little girl selling toys in front of the Mysore Palace. The girl was running from tourist to tourist, begging them desperately...
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