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With 1 Simple Step Every Sunday, 87-YO Has Saved 20 Million Litres of Water...
A newspaper report in 2007 shook Aabid Surti to take action. The report stated that for every drop of water that fell per second from a leaking tap, 1000 litres went down the drain per month. That’s...
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The Couple Behind ‘Trial by Fire’ & Their Long Battle for Justice After...
Justice delayed is justice denied. This famous legal maxim encapsulates the story of Neelam and Shekhar Krishnamoorthy, who spent over two decades seeking justice after they lost their children...
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How To Be an Ally to the Queer Community? Hear What They Have To Say
This article has been sponsored by Absolut Glassware. It has been around five years since same-sex relationships were decriminalised in India, but has that meant true acceptance and inclusion of the...
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“We Are Fighting To Get Same-Sex Marriage Legalised in India”: A Couple’s...
The year was 2008. It was a hectic semester, and the last thing Utkarsh Saxena (34) expected was to meet the love of his life. Utkarsh was then a third-year undergraduate student at Hansraj College in...
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How a ‘Twitter Warrior’ Uses Social Media to Help Villagers Get Pension,...
Upendra Mahanand begins his day by setting out on his motorcycle to cover at least 4-5 villages in the Rengali block limit. On his way, he notes down grievances of residents, checks their...
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Jailed at 13 by British, a Gandhian Transformed Rural MP & Helped 654 Dacoits...
On 9 August 1942, Indians across the nation embarked on the Quit India movement led by Mahatma Gandhi. In Bangalore (Bengaluru), a 13-year-old Salem Nanjundaiah (SN) Subba Rao and his classmates at a...
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‘They Had No Idea How Gay People Exist’: Queer Comedian Breaks Barriers in...
Navin Noronha, a 31-year-old stand-up comic and podcaster from Mumbai, was 14 when he knew he was queer (gay). But he was also raised as a staunch Catholic. “I tried to first do away with that...
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‘We Are Changing How Indian Villages See Queer Folks Like Us’
Growing up queer in a small town in India is no piece of cake, as Shashank (36), a queer trans person from Himachal Pradesh, discovered early on in life. The vibrancy of the pride parades, the...
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India’s Inspiring Fight Against Drought in 330 Villages That Once Needed...
It was in the aftermath of the drought in the state of Maharashtra during 2013-2016, the worst to hit in 40 years, that a fundamental shift took place in the mind of Nutan Upendra Desai aka Nutanben,...
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‘I’m Gay & I Don’t Want a Fake Life’: The Man Making Manipur Safer for LGBTQ...
For Sadam Hanjabam, the founder of Ya_All — an Imphal-based non-profit organisation and the first-of-its-kind queer-youth-led and focused registered network based in the Northeast — the process of...
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In Assam, This Transwoman’s Free Libraries Are Changing How Villages See...
When many of us reminisce about our childhoods, especially our teenage years, we often recall fond memories filled with friends and family. However, as life progresses, the challenge of recreating...
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‘Beyond Pride Month’: An 18-YO is On a Mission to Help Trans Persons Revive...
For many residents living near VIP Road, Zirakpur, Punjab, a usual way to celebrate the end of the work day is a fiesta at a food truck run by Dhananjay Chauhan (she/her). But, this isn’t the first...
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Bank Account Holder? Here’s Why You Need To Know About This Rs 10,000...
On the evening of February 1, 2017, 39-year-old H Manjunath from Bengaluru received a text message from Kotak Bank Limited, stating that Rs 2,499 had been deducted from his savings account as per their...
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