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Jharkhand Man Uses Ancestral Home, 60% of Salary to Run 3 Schools For Poor Kids!
32-year-old Dev Kumar Verma was born to a paan shop owner and coal labourer in the village of Katras in the Dhanbad district of Jharkhand (then undivided Bihar). Growing up, he saw his village which...
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By Kids, For Kids: This Amazing Plan Will Arrange 50,000 Books for Odisha’s...
According to reports, India has the largest illiterate population in the world–a staggering 35%. Athough the country’s literacy rate has increased from a dismal 18% at the time of British rule to 74%...
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Attention, Students! Govt to Provide Free Coaching For JEE, NEET Exams From 2019
The JEE (Joint Entrance Examination) and NEET (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test) are some of the toughest entrance exams in India. Each year, millions of students take the two tests to gain...
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How Two Sons of a Bihar Farmer Cracked the IIT-JEE When They Were Just 13 and...
The JEE Exam is taken by lakhs of engineering and architecture aspirants. Naturally, competition is fierce, and there is zero margin for error. Especially for those coming from adverse circumstances,...
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Why Teaching is More Than a Career: A Scholar’s Experiences in Uttar Pradesh
In the spring of 2014, I had the privilege of giving a TEDx talk at Northwestern University, my alma mater. I spoke about my story as a South Asian American who was adopted as a child and how returning...
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Uttarakhand Village’s Secret Weapon Against Social Evils? A Unique School!
The sarpanch of Uttarakhand’s Purkal village – Neetu Juyal – is 29 years old and the mother of two small children. As sarpanch, her responsibilities are wide-ranging. Any disaster relief operation,...
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Peon to Principal: Pune Man’s Story Is Just the Inspiration You Need for...
In school, 5th September was a day all students would eagerly look forward to. It was a tradition for students of Class 10 to dress up as teachers and teach classes 5th to 9th. At the end of the day,...
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Using Internet & Rs 7L from Own Pocket, Gujarat Teacher Gives Free Tuitions...
Education, for many, is still a luxury. Whether it is urban areas or rural, thousands of underprivileged children are deprived of this basic right. However, Baldevpari Goswami, from Junagadh, Gujarat...
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Why This Inspiring Lady Chose to Become a Teacher After 17 Years of Being a...
When we think of doctors and teachers in the same frame, the picture that comes to mind is of a bespectacled middle-aged person teaching a bunch of medical students. Rarely do we associate a doctor...
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Physics, Beekeeping, Karate & Yoga: Kerala’s ‘Gopan Sir’ Is a Teacher of All...
Anyone can learn from a book. But a #TerrificTeacher can make the difference between passing an exam and learning a life lesson. The Better India salutes those for whom teaching is not a job but a...
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‘Kutti Commandoes’ and The inspiring TN Teacher Behind These Little Do-Gooders
Anyone can learn from a book. But a #TerrificTeacher can make the difference between passing an exam and learning a life lesson. The Better India salutes those for whom teaching is not a job but a...
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How Important is School? Let This Beautiful Ladakhi Film Inspire You
How did a Bengaluru-based documentary filmmaker end up making a feature film about a village girl from, Ladakh, the land of high passes? It is a fascinating story about a vision that was held on to...
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Why This Woman Quit a Cushy Pilot Job to Become a Teacher Will Surprise You!
Anyone can learn from a book. But a #TerrificTeacher can make the difference between passing an exam and learning a life lesson. The Better India salutes those for whom teaching is not a job but a...
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When Students Stopped Coming to School, This Gujarat Principal Took It to...
Anyone can learn from a book. But a #TerrificTeacher can make the difference between passing an exam and learning a life lesson. The Better India salutes those for whom teaching is not a job but a...
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Reader Speaks: Beyond September 5, Here’s How Teachers Can Make Every Day...
There is a deluge of online news portals these days, and they are constantly craving for the attention of readers the moment you step online. They have completely transformed the daily ritual of...
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These 8 Amazing Teachers Are Going The Extra Mile to Make India’s Tomorrow...
Anyone can learn from a book. But a #TerrificTeacher can make the difference between passing an exam and learning a life lesson. The Better India salutes those for whom teaching is not a job but a...
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Exclusive: Odisha Teacher Fights for 20 Years To Give All Kids The Education...
Anyone can learn from a book. But a #TerrificTeacher can make the difference between passing an exam and learning a life lesson. The Better India salutes those for whom teaching is not a job but a...
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60 Years of IIT Madras: 5 Things Done By The Iconic Institute That...
India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, the mind and spirit behind the creation of the Indian Institutes of Technology, said something on April 21 1956, during a convocation speech at...
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An ‘Accidental’ Teacher Shows Us The Difference a Simple 1-Year Course Can Make!
Many new-age schools expect parents to be involved every step of the way. So when Ramesh Jayaraman glanced through a leaflet his son had brought home which spoke about training to teach, he assumed it...
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What Can Play, Dance & Coding Do? Pune Group & Students Say It Can Change the...
“I am teased by my father’s name in school. Dad sells pakoras by the roadside, so they speak ill of me. But in this class, no one says anything about it. So I like it here,” says 9-year-old Anuja, who...
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