Ladakh’s First ISRO Scientist Helps 700+ Village Kids Study in India’s Best...
Meet Tsering Tashi, the first scientist from Ladakh working for the prestigious Indian Space Research Organisation and the founder of a charitable trust named Ladakh Science Foundation. LSF is not only...
View ArticleForced to Skip College at 18, JNU Guard Cracks University’s Entrance Exam at 33!
Empty stomachs and equally empty pockets bind lakhs of farmers and daily-wage earners living in the villages of India. Life does not come easy to those who work their entire lives filling the belly of...
View ArticleIIT Grad’s Low-Cost Desk-Bag Helps 1 Lakh Poor Students Improve Their Posture!
Fragile walls barely hold the building up, the leaking roofs interrupt the lessons and toilets are a “luxury” that the schools can rarely afford. In some of the same schools, students sit on a thin...
View Article95% in Boards, Cracked Multiple Olympiads: JEE Topper Shares Exam Strategy!
Manan Agarwal, a resident of Sonepat, Haryana secured the 14th rank in the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced 2019. Having obtained 302 marks out of 372, Manan is the state topper as well. A...
View ArticleMeet the TN Welder Who Cleans Toilets to Educate Orphans & Needy Kids!
Charity can mean different things to different people, but for Loganathan, it has only one meaning—an opportunity to serve others. Born in a family of daily-wage labourers, he could not study beyond...
View ArticleDelhi School Bans Disposable Plastic, Harvests Sun & Rain To Save Rs 10...
For children, parents are the first and immediate teachers, teaching them values that play an integral role in determining their character, habits, and lifestyle choices. But for Aban Gandhi, mother of...
View ArticlePunjab Man Goes Door-To-Door for 2 Years, Collects 10,000+ Books for Needy...
For nearly three years, Chandigarh-based Sandeep Kumar has maintained a routine of attending calls, listing down details, hopping on to his Activa, travelling to said locations and returning with heaps...
View ArticleHow To Run a Successful Company? 11 Things You Must Learn From This Gujarat...
In other places that I worked, people would know me just as a school bus driver and sometimes not even know my name. But, in my ten years at Riverside, teachers and students noticed me and addressed me...
View ArticleIIT-Madras@60: 3 Generations of Students Share How It Changed Their Lives...
On my first day at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras in August 2006, the first thing that struck me was the sheer size of the campus, measuring over 600 acres. It was a lush and verdant heaven,...
View ArticleMade From Mud & Upcycled Wood, Karnataka School Teaches 40 Needy Kids For Free!
With a school that has a different approach toward education and is also visually appealing, wouldn’t you be excited to sit in the classrooms every day? Bangalore-based NGO, Building Blocks has created...
View ArticleShe Fought Patriarchy to Educate Girls, Has Helped 80K Women Live Life On Own...
This article has been sponsored by Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation In 1946, Arunaben Shankarprasad Desai was a young college graduate. Even as the entire country was in the midst of the freedom struggle,...
View ArticleIndia’s Education Policy Updates After 30 Years: 4 Experts Share What It...
On 31 May 2019, the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) released a draft of the National Education Policy (NEP). This is the first update to India’s education policy in nearly 30 years, and...
View Article‘Studying For Hours Not Mandatory to Become IAS,’ Says UPSC Topper Who’s a...
‘Meri zarooratein kam hai, isliye mere zameer mein dum hai’ (My needs are very less, and that’s why my conscience is strong) This rousing dialogue from the action-packed movie ‘Singham’ is Saurabh...
View ArticleTopper Talk: AIR 1 Deepanshu Jindal Shares Strategies & Tips to Crack JEE Mains
About 12 lakh candidates appeared for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) in 2018 and of this number around 2.2 lakh made the cut. Such numbers are enough for one to understand how difficult it is for...
View ArticleIIT Students Invent ‘Smart Sun Visor’ To Help Block Out the Brightest Glares!
In 2018, nearly 1.49 lakh people lost their lives in road accidents in India. Despite strict rules and regulations in place, the number of road fatalities is showing a spike. Of the many reasons that...
View ArticleAbandoned At 2, This Girl Fought to Ensure 1% Reservation For Orphans in...
“I do not know where or even when I was born,” says 24-year-old Amruta Karvande. You might wonder how her age is mentioned here then. Well, it was only a few months ago that Amruta got it mapped from...
View Article‘My Father is My Junior in College’: This Daughter’s Viral Post is a Must Read!
“New beginnings don’t see time and place, they just happen,” says 58-year-old Rajesh Vora, explaining his decision to return to college, after almost 40 years. A resident of Mumbai, Rajesh is a father...
View ArticleInspired by Kalam, Indore District To Provide Free JEE/NEET Coaching to Needy...
Eking out a living in Madras Presidency in British India was difficult for Jainulabudeen, a boat owner and his wife, Ashiamma. And they struggled to make ends meet with the birth of their son in...
View ArticleThis Woman Quit Her Job to Help Sonam Wangchuk Transform Education in Ladakh!
Earlier this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of Ladakh’s first ever university. However, experts believe that there is still a very long way to go before these institutions...
View ArticleRagpicker to Forbes List: How a Homeless Child Became an International...
The 11-year-old boy stood aghast at the chaos of the New Delhi railway station. The melee of passengers-walking, running and pushing to get to their destination was overwhelming. As the tears began to...
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