Purulia: Every second girl in India is married underage, according to UNFPA data. The UNFPA also says that India has the highest number of child brides. Nearly 47 per cent of girls are married under the legal age of 18. The agency adds that nearly 140 million child marriages may take place between 2011 and 2020 across most developing nations. This means that on an average, 39,000 child marriages will...
04:54 PM, May 01, 2013
Raipur: Ravina Biraha is a transgender who refused to live on the fringes and is fighting for dignity for her community. The taunts, the jeers and the humiliation, Biraha has experienced it all. But she prefers to define herself as the third gender. "People still believe that there are only two genders in the society. When they see somebody from the third gender, they starting behaving differently. And that affects...
10:09 AM, Apr 30, 2013
On this episode we take a look how stress and depression is affecting lives. ...
11:11 PM, Nov 03, 2012
Shillong: Bertha Dkhar's free school in Meghalaya helps hundreds of poor visually impaired students have a vision for the future. Thanks to her invention of introducing the local Khasi language in Braille, hundreds of her students can read and write in their mother tongue. A student Pynskhemlang said, "We don't care whoever takes care of us because our headmistress Bertha is there to look after us." Bertha is more than...
10:05 AM, Mar 01, 2012
Gangtok: While India is on the verge of a population explosion, ironically the Lepcha community of Sikkim is on its way to fading away. But 72-year-old Keepu Lepcha has been doing her best to fight this. She runs a home, the Lepcha cottage, which is perhaps the last stand of the Lepcha community. Keepu Tsering Lepcha is 'nikun' or grandmother to the children there. Almost 75 orphan and semi-orphan children...
10:13 AM, Feb 29, 2012
Tangla: Dwarves in Assam have been written off by the society sadly as symbols of entertainment. Pabitra Rabha decided to give the men their dues in life and he has been doing this through the power of theatre. James Daimary was a circus clown for 18 long years. About two years ago James' prayer for a life of dignity was answered. It all started when he embarked on a new...
09:16 AM, Feb 27, 2012
Jalandhar: In a state infamous for female foeticide, Prakash Kaur is mother to 60 abandoned girls in Jalandhar. She has given them a life to look forward to, when their own parents wished they were dead. No one knows when they were born. But for Sheeba, for little Zeinab and their 60 sisters, April 24 is special as it is their birthday. Prakash doesn't like to look back. Sixty years...
09:09 AM, Aug 01, 2011
Ranchi: Doctor Shyama Prasad Mukherjee has been treating poor patients for a mere Rs five for the last 55 years. He is said to be a medical marvel of a different kind. His consultation charges have helped many poor patients in times of sickness when other doctors and hospitals are too expensive for them. One such family who have immense respect for Dr Mukherjee is that of Harinandan Singh. Singh,...
10:25 AM, Jul 30, 2011
Uttam Teron set up Parijat academy in a village in Assam which opened up a whole new world of learning for the tribal children. ...
09:12 AM, Jul 29, 2011
Imphal: Manipur's Binalaxmi Nepram, who's seen how militancy has permanently scarred women in her state, has set up the Manipur Women Gun Survivours Network for widows who have lost their husbands in the ongoing conflict in the state. More than 20,000 people have lost their lives in the killing fields of Manipur in the last five decades and every year more than three hundred widows are created because of the...
08:53 AM, Jul 28, 2011
West Champaran: An electrical engineer Gyanesh Pandey left behind his American dream to bring light to villages in Bihar. Gyanesh Pandey is the founder of Husk Power system, the technology which is illuminating thousands of homes across 250 villages in Bihar. An electrical engineer from Benaras Hindu University, a cushy job took him to Los Angeles. But Gyanesh could never get over the darkness he saw as a child in...
08:44 AM, Jul 26, 2011
Purulia: Fourteen-year-old Bina Kalindi, a resident of West Bengal's Purulia district is fighting the illegal but still prevalent practice of Child Marriages. In the land of the powerful Goddess, her daughters are helpless. Even before they can realize, child marriage or 'ballo vivaho' abruptly ends their childhood and they are forced to walk into a life of unimaginable horrors. Sixteen-year-old Saraswati was married off at the age of 12 years....
08:51 AM, Jul 25, 2011
The award-winning Shillong Chamber Choir will perform for Barack Obama in New Delhi. ...
04:23 PM, Nov 07, 2010
Pratapura (Gujarat): Karsanbhai Patel has been training children of his village to swim in a local lake. He saw an opportunity where others saw only a dirty lake. For 28 years, there have been no professional facilities, yet the children he trained have gone on to become national champions. Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps will probably never know about his popularity thousands of miles away in a tiny village of...
11:04 PM, Aug 14, 2010
India also has about two lakh Tibetans and Sri Lankans living with hope and despair. ...
11:31 PM, Jun 18, 2010
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