By Mudita Girotra Alakhpura (Haryana), April 29 (IANS) About four years ago, 15-year-old Anyabai won Rs 54,000 when she led her school team to victory in a state-level football match. The prize money was more…
By Jaideep Sarin Amritsar (Punjab), April 22 (IANS) If there is one big leveller for people, irrespective of their religion, caste, gender, social status or riches, it is the “langar”, or community kitchen, at the…
By Imran Khan Patna, April 15 (IANS) Kamla Devi, Pankaj Kumar, Geeta Devi and Sanjay Singh, all Hindus, share one thing in common. Their lives have been transformed through “interest-free” loans provided by a Muslim…
By Kushagra Dixit Maholi (Uttar Pradesh), April 8 (IANS) With inter-community violence reported from many parts of India in a society increasingly polarised on religious and caste lines, a small town in Uttar Pradesh is…
By Mamta Aggarwal Hyderabad, April 1 (IANS) Jayamma Bhandari was orphaned at the age of three and spend her childhood in grim poverty. She was forced into the sex trade by her husband. But unlike…
By Somrita Ghosh Jhunjhunu, March 25 (IANS) Sending her elder daughter Manushree to an English-medium school in Jhunjhunu (Rajasthan) was a distant dream for Sushila Thakan some eight years ago. Though she had her husband’s…
By Nivedita Singh New Delhi, March 18 (IANS) “Winter will go, snow will melt to make way for warmth of spring again”. Raabta, a Facebook page, begins on this optimistic note to re-establish broken links…
By Kushagra Dixit Leh, March 11 (IANS) Years back, on a harsh winter morning in Ladakh in the northernmost Himalayas in India, a young and curious boy in a remote mountain village of the cold…
By Bhavana Akella Bengaluru, March 4 (IANS) Never give up — these were the simple yet profound words that kept Virali Modi, 26, fighting on after a deadly bout of malaria had her comatose for…
By Somrita Ghosh Pune, Feb 25 (IANS) Divyanshu Ganatra was just 19 when glaucoma claimed his eyesight. Being a nature’s boy who revelled in cycling, climbing mountains and trekking, confining himself to the four walls…
By Abu Zafar Srirangapatna (Karnataka), Feb 11 (IANS) Surrounded by a cluster of coconut trees and at a stone’s throw from the tomb of 18th century ruler Tipu Sultan in this town near Mysuru, Darul…
By Mudita Girotra New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) Ten-year-old Chandni, living in the predominantly Muslim settlement of Hazrat Nizamuddin that grew around a venerated Sufi shrine, excitedly talks about the makeover of her once filthy…
By Mamta Aggarwal New Delhi, Jan 28 (IANS) He suffered from meningitis and became visually impaired when he was only 10 months old. Yet, fighting insurmountable odds, George Abraham is today not only living a…
By Mohammed Shafeeq Hyderabad, Jan 21 (IANS) One of the five pillars of Islam, “zakat” is mandatory charity for every well-to-do Muslim. And Hyderabad Zakat and Charitable Trust (HZCT) has shown how this obligatory form…
By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh, Jan 14 (IANS) He is 83 years old and has been serving free food to the poor and needy for over three-and-a-half decades. He is fighting cancer and has sold off…
By Mudita Girotra Alakhpura (Haryana), Jan 7 (IANS) On a cold and wet winter afternoon, some 30 km from the district headquarters of Bhiwani, tired boys buckled up to return home after seven hours of…
By Bhavana Akella ProtoVillage (Andhra Pradesh), Dec 31 (IANS) John F. Kennedy said “One person can make a difference, and everyone should try”. These words of one of America’s best-known presidents probably inspired a former…
By Nikhil M. Babu Khoda (Uttar Pradesh), Dec 24 (IANS) Ten years ago, when three women walked into Shabnam’s one-roomed home here one afternoon, her six- and seven-year-old daughters, Sana and Shaima, were school dropouts….
By Sirshendu Panth Kolkata, Dec 17 (IANS) Eight years back, Sathi Mondal was a normal, jovial teenager, enjoying life and dreaming of making it big in sports. That’s till a botched-up medical treatment derailed her…
By Sheikh Qayoom Laharwalpora (Jammu and Kashmir), Dec 10 (IANS) Bilal Ahmad Dar, 18, is ready to start his daily journey into the Wular Lake, said to be Asia’s largest fresh-water lake, early in the…