Engineer Turns 15000 Rural Kids Into Innovators With Free Computer & Coding...
“How many of you have used a computer?” The answer to this question from class 7 students surprised Shoaib Dar, a fellow of Teach For India at the time. The engineer-turned-educator couldn’t believe...
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One Man Brings Free, High-Quality Education to Lakhs in Maharashtra’s...
Prafulla Shashikant (33) has worked tirelessly to ensure that children from the country’s most backward and marginalised factions are able to complete their education. In part, it was his own...
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‘No One Was Helping Them’: Retired Couple Gift Free Education to 1000+...
“We realised that the daily wage earners’ children, who go to government schools, have no one to help them with schoolwork,” begins Siva Swamy. “They don’t understand what’s being taught in school and...
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Entrepreneur at 16, Disabled Hero Brings Quality Education to Smaller Indian...
At just 9 months, Ajay Gupta was diagnosed with polio, which left both his legs and left hand paralysed. Today, he has a 70 per cent locomotive disability. He faced many setbacks in his childhood, the...
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What Happens to Kids of Prisoners? Couple Used Savings to Built Them a Safe...
In the early 1990s, while working at the Reserve Bank of India in Bengaluru, V Mani would pass through the Central Jail on his commute. Here, he’d notice several children hanging around the premises....
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Denied Education, She Went Door to Door to Build India’s 1st School for...
Year: 1905 Location: Ladyland They say this is a ‘feminist utopia’, where the purdah system has been reversed. Here, the men are confined indoors, and the women roam the world freely, having just...
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Teens Teach Finance to Kids Across The World Because ‘It’s Not Taught in...
“Financial literacy is very essential for every individual and it is always wise to learn about it from a young age,” says Aryan Chaudhry, a class 12 student, who along with his buddy, Arnav Bajaj,...
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5 Ways in Which ‘Alexa’ Helped Educators Across India Make Learning Fun
This article has been sponsored by Amazon. It’s 8 am and the bell has just rung at the Ramkrishna Parmhans Marg Municipal Marathi school in Mumbai. You’d expect students to still be settling in slow...
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IAS Officer Doubles District Literacy to 100%, Drastically Reduces Bank Frauds
Sarita Devi* (name changed) (38), a resident of Mandla in Madhya Pradesh for many years now, has been saving money every month. The daily wager planned to ensure that every rupee she saves went into...
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Jharkhand Teacher’s Brilliant Initiative Has Kids Teaching Their Parents &...
Growing up in a poor family, Dr Sapan Patralekh realised the importance of education at a young age. Due to his father’s death, he had to stay in a friend’s house in a nearby village in Bihar for his...
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Magic to Woodworking: 8 Online Courses to Help You Learn Unique Skills
The joys and endless possibilities of the internet were reinforced, if not realised, when the COVID-19 lockdowns forced all of us within the confines of our home. From entrepreneurial ventures to...
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IIT Madras Offers Executive MBA Programme for Mid-Career Working Professionals
The Department of Management Studies from IIT, Madras is inviting applications for its Executive MBA (EMBA) Degree programme. Things to know: · This programme is designed for mid-career working...
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Living With Polio, He Became Entrepreneur at 16 & Now Takes Education to...
Ajay Gupta was diagnosed with polio when he was only nine months old. However, being disabled himself, he spent his life working for the cause and starting ventures for the betterment of others....
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A Geologist Left Behind Fame & A Historic Discovery in Canada to Transform a...
Dr Shiva Balak Misra was only in his early 30s when he made the groundbreaking discovery of a type of fossil that is among the oldest life forms known to exist on earth. At the time, he was a student...
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46-YO Quit Comfortable Job to Help Millions Study, Find Jobs, & Reach Global...
Social entrepreneur Sriram V Ayer’s life can be slotted into two periods — before and after 2002. In the former, he held a lucrative corporate job that he enjoyed thoroughly. He’d started working in...
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NEET Results 2022: Meet The Top 3 Rankers; Check Out What Worked For Them
The National Testing Agency (NTA) has announced this year’s National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET-UG) results which were conducted among 18.72 lakh students on 17 July 2022. A total of 9.93...
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Ex-Techies Guide 35000 Youth to Make Right Career Choices With Award-Winning...
Damodar Patnekar, Ashutosh Shankar and Aarthy Vassan first met in 2013 while working at an IT multinational, in Bengaluru. Their work essentially entailed digital and technology enabled transformation...
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JEE Advanced Tips From Topper With Hearing Disability, Whose AIR-26 Created...
At the age of 10, Ojas Maheshwari harboured a dream — of getting into IIT Bombay. Cut to eight years later, he is well on his way to getting admission in the institution in the first round itself....
View ArticleEye-Opening Incident Pushed Him to Quit Job & Pull Millions of Children Out...
In 2002, Chennai-native Sriram V Ayer was comfortably working for a corporate firm that paid him well. But in a span of a few months, everything changed. He witnessed the aftermath of Gujarat riots,...
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Boycotted for Love, Couple Now Runs Home for Orphans & Abandoned Elders
Around 40 years ago, Ongole-native P Rajyalakshmi and Yerragondapalem-resident SMD Khasim met for the first time in their college during graduation. They were classmates at CSR Sarma College, Andhra...
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