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How This Organisation Is Giving India’s Tribal Musicians a New Lease of Life
Folk music is an indelible part of India’s storied oral tradition. Songs emanating from the tribal folk tradition are critical fragments of this country’s vast cultural diversity. Based on simple...
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How a Shark with Plastic in It’s Stomach Pushed K. Vinod to Start a...
The young fisherman in Chennai saw the photo of a dead shark, washed up in Kovalam, with plastics in it’s gut. And this changed everything. We often read of tragic instances when sharks and whales have...
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How Volunteer Teachers are Bringing Electricity to a Small Mountain School in...
Keerthi Sagar and Nagakarthik MP are engineers by qualification. They had lucrative jobs in the tech industry before realising that perhaps it was not for them. So, Nagakarthik quit his job and found...
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Ambedkar’s Lessons Have a Greater Relevance Today Than 70 Years Ago
It was the day of 25 November 1949 when Dr B.R Ambedkar, being the legendary intellect and future thinkers he was, stood as a speaker in front of our highly esteemed Constituent Assembly. While...
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This Ex-Armed Forces Veteran Needs Your Help to Educate Underprivileged...
Imagine a scene, where a teacher walks into a classroom with broken window panes, poor lighting, inadequate standards of cleanliness and no plug point to even use basic teaching equipment like a...
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Water Is Precious and This Hyderabad Lady Is Going All out to Save Every Drop!
Water is scarce. Apart from the fact that it is in short supply, the pollution of water-bodies doesn’t help the cause. Hyderabad is facing an ongoing water-crisis, one which forces citizens to buy...
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Bengaluru Plans ‘Less Traffic Day’ from February 2018. Here Are the Details
The toxic smog that has engulfed Delhi continues to affect the city. To ensure that Bengaluru does not face the same situation, the State Government is launching a campaign to ease the number of...
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Assam’s Dhruv Pedalled His Floating Bamboo Cycle down the Thames to Clean It!
Dhruv Boruah, an entrepreneur, loves sailing and adventure. His passion led him to get involved in Ocean Racing, and while sailing from London to Brazil, and noticed how the waters were full of plastic...
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A Tsunami Swept Away Their Kids, but This Couple Are Now Parents to 36 Orphans
Fondly known as Appa, among the children he takes care of, Parmeshwaran, and his wife Choodamani, have quite a packed daily schedule. Naturally, as taking care of 36 orphans isn’t an easy task....
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Want to Make a Birthday Extra Special? Take a Cue from This Retired Professor
The omnipresence of plastic, in places of worship, hospitals, shops and everywhere else, is unnerving, and one man takes his crusade against plastic very seriously. Professor Rajamani Ramakunja, a...
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Lack of Menstrual Hygiene Costs Women a Lot. Join Ruhpreet in Changing That
Twenty-six-year-old Ruhpreet returned to India in May 2017, after a traumatic divorce. The troubles she faced in her marriage left a strong impression on her mind, and she decided she would help women...
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Time’s Up: Here’s How Indian Cinema Can Take a Stand Against Sexual Harassment
Women in Hollywood are driven by outrage. The new year has brought with it an intolerance towards sexual harassment in the industry as well as blue-collar workplaces all over the world. Driven by the...
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Karnataka Sets Example; Govt to Cut Power of Factories Using Child Labour
Childhood is a wonderful time indeed. To play, learn, absorb and develop one’s mind, body and soul. Spending time doing all of the above, some of us wish we never grew up, and some of us just refused...
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Meet Mittal Patel, Who Skipped Her IAS Dreams to Uplift India’s ‘Criminal’...
Mittal Patel grew up in the Gujarati village of Shankhalpur, with the dream of becoming an IAS officer. However, life had different plans for her. While she shifted to Ahmedabad to study for the UPSC...
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5 Times Ordinary Citizens Took Extraordinary Steps for a Greener Future!
World Environment Day is celebrated to raise awareness about conservation, and sustainability and also remind us just how harmful pollution is. India will be hosting World Environment Day on June 5,...
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This 7-Month-Old Dog Was Going to Die. Until This Woman Did Something...
Some of us feed the stray Indie dogs that roam our neighbourhoods. But how many of us will go the extra, extra mile to save the friendly neighbourhood Indie’s life? While giving a dog a biscuit may...
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Before ‘Saving The Environment’ Was a Catchphrase, The Chipko Movement Showed...
As an apostle for non-violent resistance against environmental destruction, the Chipko Movement continues to resonate with millions around the world. Today, Google is celebrating the 45th anniversary...
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Kathua Rape: What 49 Retired Bureaucrats say In an Open Letter to PM Modi!
The incidents at Unnao, Kathua and now Surat, clearly indicate how bestial crimes against women continue to persist in the country and highlight the sad fact that no immediate action is taken against...
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Citizens Raise Rs 35 lakh in 4 days For Kathua, Unnao Rape Victims’ Families
When the gut-wrenching story of how an eight-year-old was gang-raped multiple times and stoned to death made headlines, the nation cried. The victim, who belonged to the nomadic Bakarwal community was...
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Meet the Amazing Indian Woman Picked for Barack Obama’s Coveted Fellowship!
Preethi Herman, the Global Executive Director of Change.org, a global technology platform for social change, has been selected from a pool of over 20,000 people from 191 countries for a prestigious...
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