Bihar Lawyer Quits Practice, Now Educates 2000+ Underprivileged Kids For Free!
What’s one of the most delightful memories you have of growing up? Is it being able to live without the burden of worries and responsibilities, perhaps? Not having to think about what consequences your...
View ArticleIAS Officer Posts Own Board Exam Marks In Heartfelt Message After Student’s...
The recent declaration of board exam results from across the country has brought intense joy and disappointment to scores of families. Tragically, for an 18-year-old student from Raigarh, Chhattisgarh,...
View ArticleUndeterred by 24 Km Daily Commute, K’taka Farmer’s Son Tops CBSE Class 10...
For Yashas D, concepts like destiny or good luck are baseless myths. He believes that focus and hard work are the only two routes to success. Well, his belief bore fruit when the CBSE results for Class...
View ArticleMore Than Your Marks: Professor’s Inspiring Post Will Make You Rethink Board...
The results of Class 10 and 12 CBSE Board exams are out. Many scored exceptional marks, some just about made it, and then there are the ones who did not manage to get the required marks to pass the...
View ArticlePoor Marks to Poverty: 5 IIT-ians Who Overcame All Odds to Crack JEE
It is often the struggles in the path that make the person worthy of the success they achieve. What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger, after all. The Better India usually brings you success stories...
View Article27-YO Didn’t Crack UPSC Even After 3 Attempts & His Journey Will Inspire You!
“An exam is just a qualifier, not a judge of your merit or the measure of your dreams”- is what my father used to tell me just before an important examination. A few years down the line, and I found...
View ArticleTeacher Lives in Forests For 20 Years, Uplifts One of Kerala’s Most...
In 1999, when 29-year-old PK Muraleedharan left for Nenmanalkudy, a tribal settlement in Kerala’s Idukki district, little did he know that his life was to change forever. Muraleedharan was a volunteer...
View ArticleRetd 73-YO Opens 7 Library-Cum-Classrooms For Noida’s Underprivileged Kids!
Santosh: It is my Fundamental Right to sing in a free period. Mansi: But don’t you think that no Right is absolute? If your singing disturbs me, then I have the right to object. Ma’am are fundamental...
View ArticleSchool Dropout Designs Striking Textbook Covers, Gets Hired by TN State Board!
Do you remember the covers on your school textbooks? I cannot remember mine for the simple reason that I never found them attractive. I preferred covering the books with brown covers than look at their...
View ArticleRIP, Vijaya Mulay: The Brilliant Filmmaker Whose ‘Ek Chidiya, Anek Chidiya’...
Didi, agar hum ek ho jaye, toh bada kaam kar sakte hai?” “Haan haan, kyun nahi!” These lines from the song “Ek Chidiya Anek Chidiya,” which retold the fable about a flock of birds escaping certain...
View ArticleTheir Future Was A Brick Kiln, But Top Cop & NGO Ensure 800 Kids Bag a New...
For nearly 800 children of brick kiln labourers from Western Odisha working in Telangana, the faint hope of accessing formal education has become a reality. Thanks to the collective efforts of the...
View ArticleRagpickers to Beggars, This Railway Engineer’s Roadside Schools Have Helped...
A make-shift tin-sheet structure with an open roof, an open field nearing harvest, a pavement by a bustling suburban street or sometimes even an isolated corner under the shade of a century-old banyan...
View ArticleSchool Didn’t Have Physics Teacher for 5 Years. So an IAS Officer’s Wife...
In 2016, when IAS officer Danish Ashraf took charge as the District Magistrate of Upper Subansiri in Arunachal Pradesh, his wife, Ruhi, was setting foot in the district for the first time. They were at...
View ArticleWoman’s Fight for ‘Period-Friendly’ Flood Shelters in Assam Deserves Our...
The water began gushing into the house. Panic-stricken, she struggled to rush out. She had many struggles to overcome, but at that point, her only concern was to save her own life. Dodging dangers she...
View ArticleHow a Pinch of Rice Flour, Math & Imagination Led to the Ancient Art of Kolam
As a child, my mornings were always a disaster. Chaos ensued as my mother would try to feed me rice balls before the school bus arrived, while I would slip out in the verandah to observe the nicer and...
View Article22-YO Daughter of Uttarakhand Labourer Finds Wings, Shows the Way For 8000...
This article has been sponsored by HSBC. Cradled amidst the scenic mountains of Uttarakhand, a young girl grew up harbouring dreams larger than the life she lived in her quaint village. All she was...
View Article‘Humanity’ as Religion: Trailblazing Kolkata College’s Admission Form is a...
At a book launch earlier this month, Javed Akhtar, the poet and film lyricist said, “No one of us has only one identity. We are a collage of different identities.” In these times of heightened...
View ArticleAt 19, She Lost 70% Vision. Today, Her ‘Bucket List’ Spells Hope For Street...
Sakshi recalls the day she was rushed to the hospital. Born and brought up in Delhi, she was 19 at the time and a first-year student at Delhi University. Why? Because she was losing vision. Rapidly....
View ArticleOnce a Beggar, Delhi Woman Braves Death Threats to Ensure Kids Don’t Walk Her...
Enduring the sweltering heat, the class of 30-odd students is reciting their math tables diligently. For the students dressed in hand-me-downs, the rising temperatures are of no concern. The learners...
View ArticleKoraputia Gandhi: The Forgotten Legend Who Served Odisha’s Tribals for 77 Years
This article has been sponsored by Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation He was just 17 when he decided to dedicate his entire life for the betterment of others. A legendary Gandhian and one of the most notable...
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