This Bengaluru Teen’s Platform Will Let 100 Experts Help You Choose A Career!
Back in August 2018, Rohan S Nair, a 14-year-old student of Class 9 from Delhi Public School, Bangalore (East), launched a Skype-based platform called ‘Schuniversity’ on the hallowed grounds of IIT...
View ArticleThis Lawyer’s Powerful PIL Helped 132 Orphaned Girls in Uttarakhand Get Free...
The devastating flash floods that hit Uttarakhand in June 2013 are still fresh in our minds. In one of India’s worst natural calamities, more than 5,500 people were presumed dead, with incalculable...
View ArticlePune Students Give Free Meals to Juniors – For a Reason That’ll Touch Your Heart
In the last five years, Maharashtra has had to deal with severe droughts thrice. And, of the 112 drought-struck talukas in the State, 40 per cent belong to Marathwada belt. Last year, districts in this...
View Article22-YO Mumbai Woman Turns Skywalk into Classroom; Teaches Kids of Beggars for...
Every day, 22-year-old Haimanti Sen can be found at the Kandivali station skywalk, teaching the alphabet, numbers, words, communication, and art and craft to over 15 kids, free of cost! These kids are...
View ArticleHaryana Holds the Blueprint For Improving Govt Schools Across India. We Tell...
Across all 22 districts in Haryana, there are nearly 20 lakh students studying in government schools. Approximately 1.1 lakh educators teach these students. However, in 2014, Education Initiatives...
View ArticleArmy of Stay-At-Home Moms Create News App for Kids with 7 Reading Levels!
My four-year-old asks me not less than hundred questions each day. Some days, I am very patient and can answer most of them, but there are days when I just do not have the answers. I am told that this...
View ArticleEncouraging Kids to Ask a Million Questions, This New Helpline Is Just What...
“Amma, why are water and sky blue in colour?” asked my almost-four-year-old a few days ago. While I had a vague recollection of reading about why the sky is blue, I had no idea why the water was. Once...
View ArticleOvercoming Drug Addiction & Child Abuse, Noida Duo Transforms Lives of 300+...
After navigating the congested and busy lanes and bylanes of Noida’s Sector 44, one is flooded with a sense of relief and positivity when they reach ‘Master Ji ki Haveli,’ and see a classroom full of...
View ArticlePoverty Shattered his MBBS Dreams. So He Opened a School For Underprivileged...
The year is 1986. A 19-year-old teenager from India’s Golden district, Kolar, has arrived in his city of dreams, Bengaluru, with only one shirt and trouser. Although he has no place to live and no...
View ArticleMagnetic Shirt to Cooling Helmet: 2000+ Kids From Low-Income Schools Turn...
Is it a waste bottle? Is it a holder for spoons? No, it’s a low-cost water heater prototype made from a plastic bottle and two spoons! Proudly showing off his prototype, 11-year-old Ibrahim, a student...
View ArticleExam Dates to Evaluation Process: CBSE’s new Podcast Gives Speedy Updates to...
Come exam season, and students, along with their parents are caught in the wave of confusion fueled by misinformation, fake news and rumours. But, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has...
View ArticleIIT Grad Quits Singapore Job to Teach Poor Kids From 11 Flood-Prone Assam...
For Bipin Dhane, the path ahead was seemingly clear. In 2013, after graduating from IIT-Kharagpur in Naval Architecture, he found a job at a multinational company in Singapore. However, for this IIT...
View ArticleCan Private Schools Arbitrarily Hike School Fees? What Indian Parents Should...
Recently, Amanora School in Pune expelled 486 students for participating in a protest along-side their parents against an illegal fee hike, Hindustan Times reported. The school, on its part, released a...
View ArticleEx-IITians Attempt to Prevent Student Suicides in Kota, Launch ‘Happiness...
High on aspirations and dreams to make it big, each year thousands of students from across India move to Kota, one of the major coaching hubs in the country. With a hope to get admissions in IITs and...
View ArticleOnce He Couldn’t Pay His Fees. Now This Farmer’s Son Is Saving Govt Schools!
Anil Shetty was born to marginal farmers in the village of Shankaranarayana in Karnataka’s Udupi district and grew up in a dilapidated home, in the middle of a forest. The small piece of land which...
View ArticleOrphaned at Birth, School Dropout From Pune Raises Rs 6.5 Cr For The Sick!
Orphaned at birth, Vinayak Deokar was adopted three months later by a 60-year-old couple who toiled in a stone quarry. Naturally, he grew up worshipping his parents. Yes, finances were tight, but even...
View ArticlePower of Vernacular: How 2 Friends Are Bridging the Gap in 100 Govt Schools!
Lalit, a student of Class 7 in Rohtak’s Government High School, was fed up with school and wanted to drop out. He was way behind his classmates, as a result of which, he was indifferent to what was...
View Article30-YO Ex-World Bank Consultant Invents Education App, Helps 4000+ Kids in Odisha
While India is working to increase the number of seats in IITs and IIMs to make these coveted institutions of higher learning more accessible to students and digital learning is taking over schools in...
View Article25-YO IAF Man Transforms Bihar Home Into School, Provides Education To 400 Kids!
Prakash Pandey grew up studying in a dilapidated government school in the Chorauwan village, located in Bihar’s Chapra district. The classrooms did not have benches, electricity would come and go, and...
View Article7 Unique Summer Courses in India For High School Students
To begin with, I got my first curriculum vitae (CV) made after I had already received my law degree. It was a one-page document that merely stated where I had studied and the grades I had passed with....
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