Kanpur Tea-Seller Uses 80% Income to Educate 40 Needy Kids, Inspires VVS Laxman!
Over the last one week, Kanpur-based tea-seller, Mohammad Mahboob Malik’s stall situated on a footpath at the Sharda Nagar intersection has been attracting a lot of attention. Why? Because the humble...
View ArticleFrom Doorstep to On Wheels: How This Woman Taught Over 1 Lakh Slum Kids in 30...
Barely three decades ago, Mumbai’s Cuffe Parade or Colaba would see barefoot kids from the nearby slum areas chasing the school buses. Attending school in creaseless uniforms, sitting in a classroom...
View ArticleThey Lost Their IAF Son to a Crash. Now They Provide Free Schooling to 350...
When Group Captain (retd) Sharad Tewari and his wife Savita, a social activist, received news that their son, Squadron Leader Shishir Tewari, had lost his life in the Mi-17 V5 crash in Arunachal...
View ArticleKolkata Woman Gives Up Corporate Life, Helps 600+ Kids in Spiti Discover The...
Ruchi Dhona first visited the picturesque Spiti Valley in Himachal Pradesh sometime in 2017 after quitting her corporate job. As she had some experience in volunteering with various non-profits, she...
View ArticleOnce He Wished To Be a Teacher. Today Rajasthan Cop Teaches 500 Slum Kids for...
Like many kids her age, Laxmi, a student of Class 9 in Rajasthan’s Churu village wants to become a cop when she grows up. Unlike most of them, it is because she is determined to ensure that others do...
View ArticleMP IAS Initiates Volunteering-Based Teaching to Uplift Schools, 300+ Volunteer!
“These kids are very smart and eager to learn new things. But they were in a fix for the last few months because they did not have a teacher who could teach them,” Shruti Shrivastava, a volunteer...
View ArticleThis Scientist’s Research Could Stop Millions of Dyslexic Kids From Dropping Out
A neurobiological condition inhibits the development of efficient circuits for reading in children. But in the field, only tests in English were used to diagnose dyslexia says, Dr Nandini Chatterjee...
View ArticleLearning Never Stops: At 77, This Retd. Engineer is One of IIT Delhi’s Oldest...
On November 2, 2019, Dr SK Dhawan, a 77-year-old former chief engineer with the Central Public Works Department (CPWD), became IIT-Delhi’s oldest PhD recipient this year. However, this honour marks...
View ArticleIIT Engineer Switches Career, Upcycles Waste Into Toys to Teach ‘Ahimsa’ to...
Getting into teaching children how to upcycle waste seemed too far fetched back when Subid Ahimsa was a student at IIT in 2003, where he was pursuing a post-graduation course in Industrial Design....
View ArticleTN Barber Gives Customers 30% Off If They Read a Book In His Unique Salon
Like the thousands of salons found in every nook and cranny of a city, Thoothukudi’s Sushil Kumar Beauty Hair salon offers a wide variety of grooming services for men, including haircuts and massages....
View Article129 Km in Just 1 Litre Petrol: VIT Students May Just Have Built the Car of...
This article has been sponsored by Shell “An averagely efficient car in India runs on a mileage of 20 KM per litre. This means, that it would consume 6.45 litres to cover 129 kilometres. But what if...
View Article3 Techies, 2 Lakh+ Kids: How Phones & Unique Cards are Helping Students Learn...
India may boast of high enrollment rates in schools but are the children learning enough? The “Annual State of Education Report” (Aser) says that only 47.8 per cent of class 5 students in some rural...
View ArticleInspired by Father, 6-YO Nagpur Girl Donates 4800 School Bags to Needy Kids
Six-year-old Tunisha Khushroo Poacha from Nagpur had always seen her father, Khushroo, support the needy through his NGO Seva Kitchen. Recently, she saw him donating food and clothes to flood survivors...
View ArticleNagaland School Kids Grow Their Own Organic Mid-Day Meals, Inspire Whole Village
Away from the hullabaloo of urban life, the quaint village of Viswema lies nestled in the Purvanchal Himalayas of Nagaland. Home to around 7,500 people, the sparsely populated hamlet is well-known in...
View ArticleHow 1 Ladakhi Monk Shaped the Future of 1000s of Underprivileged Kids
In the first week of November 1980, armed with nothing but a toolbox, Lobzang Zotpa, a Buddhist monk and teacher at the Lamdon Model Senior Secondary School in Leh, set out on the back of an army truck...
View Article72-YO Prof Saves Salary & Pensions, Donates Rs 1 Crore for Education!
A good education can change anyone, and a good teacher can change everything. Kolkata-based retired professor and former Sanskrit reader, Chitralekha Mallik is the essence of a great teacher. Apart...
View Article‘Marks Aren’t Everything’: Parents, You Need To Read This School’s Viral Post
“Dear parents, The Board Exams of your children are to start soon. I know you are very anxious for your child to do well. But please, do remember, amongst the students who will be sitting for the...
View ArticleKerala School on the Verge of Closing Makes Winning Comeback Through Its...
The CMS Lower Primary School in Muhamma, a town in the Alappuzha district of Kerala, has earned several awards from the state government and other organizations for its spectacular efforts in the field...
View ArticleWant Your Kid To Learn? Here’s The Proof That More Play Time Is The Answer!
Do we know what our children really need in their early years? Somewhere between getting their nutrition right, sleeping patterns in place, activities, and school admissions, do we pay close attention...
View ArticleISRO’s Young Scientist Programme 2020 For School Students: Registration,...
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has opened registration for the second session of its ‘Young Scientist Programme,’ also called Yuva Vigyani Karyakram (YUVIKA), which aims to provide a...
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