Real Heroes

Tendulkar dedicates 100th ton to brother Ajit

At CNN-IBN's Real Heroes awards ceremony in Mumbai on Saturday, Sachin Tendulkar dedicated his historic ton to his elder brother, Ajit. ...

Real Heroes: Nita Ambani visits home for abandoned girls

In a state infamous for female foeticide, Prakash Kaur is mother to 60 abandoned girls in Jalandhar. ...

CNN-IBN honours 24 real heroes with Mumbai Darshan

A day before CNN-IBN's Real Heroes awards night, the 24 awardees from various parts of the country were taken for a Mumbai Darshan. ...

Real Heroes Bablu & Mary transform Anantapur

Anantapur: Two persons Bablu and Mary is the reason for transformation in Anantapur. Over the past 20 years the two have turned the barren land of 140 villages into an agro-forest habitat also helping villagers set up small scale industries. Many believed that the Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh was destined to the wrath of scorching sun and barren arid land. But the will of two people, Bablu Ganguly and...  

Real Heroes Jo and Manju train special children

Dehradun: Two friends Jo chopra and Manju Singhania have set up a school for children with Cerebral Palsy, Autism and Down Syndrome. Their school is responsible for transforming the lives of more than 1500 special children. It all started with a child who was neither meant to be born nor was she meant to survive. But Moy Moy was born and even survived. In many ways this happy girl is...  

Reliance launches Braille newspaper with Real Hero

Mumbai: Reliance Foundation Chairperson Nita Mukesh Ambani launched India's first registered national Braille newspaper in Hindi in association with CNN-IBN's Real Hero Swagat Thorat on Monday. It was Real Hero Thorat's dream to print India's first Braille newspaper in Hindi, and Reliance Foundation made his dream a reality. Nita Ambani launched 'Reliance Drishti' with Thorat as the chief editor, lighting up the lives of the blind and giving them their...  

Real Hero Sheeba helps parents of ailing children

Mumbai: Sheeba Ameer, who has been through the pain of watching her 13-year-old battle cancer, has now set up an organisation that provides financial aid to parents who cannot afford treatment for their terminally ill children. It was a moment that altered her life forever, when Sheeba found out that her 13-year-old daughter was diagnosed with cancer. "I can't explain the pain we felt everyday, not knowing whether our child...  

Real Heroes: Vidya Balan tells the stories of bravehearts

Timnaktu Collective founders CK Ganaguly and Mary Vattamattam bring green revolution in barren Anantapur of Andhra Pradesh. ...

HIV positive woman helps 20,000 others

New Delhi: Kousalya Periaswamy was the first Indian woman to openly admit that she was HIV positive. Over the years, she has helped over 20,000 women across the country fight the stigma by supporting them financially and legally. Vimly, a HIV positive woman, says, "My biggest fear is that if people come to know I am HIV positive, they will not come near me." Helping women like Vimla overcome their...  

TN: Flowerseller buries unclaimed bodies

Coimbatore: Shantakumar, a flowerseller in Coimbatore, has made it his mission to offer a dignified funeral to those who no one cares for. Like in most cities, in Coimbatore too, the mortuary at the general hospital was becoming a store house for many unclaimed bodies, until one day, Shantakumar landed on their doorstep. Said Shantakumar, "One day, when we went to the government hospital, we felt a bad smell emanating...  

Couple who lost kids now parents to many orphans

Nagapattinam: A couple lost all their three chilren in the 2004 tsunami. But in sorrow the couple, Parmeshwaran and Chudamani, found a new reason to live when they reached out to the many children who were orphaned by the same tsunami in Nagappatinam. Today 26 children can dream of a future because of the couple. As the tsunami swept through the coasts of Nagapattinam in 2004, Parmeshwaran and Chudamani lost...  

Pallakad: Real Hero Raziya helps elderly women

Pallakad: In today's fast paced world, we prefer to leave behind those who can't catch up. Old age is one such anomaly. "After my husband's death, my son physically tortured me...had to approach the police," said Sitamma, an old lady. Sitamma's is not an isolated story. The "golden years" end up being traumatic for many elderly people, abandoned and banished by their loved ones. Embracing them as her own is...  

Ladakh: Police sub-inspector becomes a beacon to children

Shara, Leh: Tsewang Dorjey is a sub-inspector with the J&K police who set up a nursery school in Shara, a small village in Ladakh where children earlier didn't even start school before the age of 7. Shara is a tiny hamlet 60 km away from Leh, one of the poorest and most inhospitable places of the region. A yellow bus takes the children to their school - Sewa Shera nursery...  

IITian powers U'khand village with electricity, employment

New Delhi: In the fifth year of CNN-IBN's Real Hero, we get you the story of Yogeshwar Kumar. In the last three decades, Kumar, an IIT engineer, has set up environmentally friendly micro-hydroelectric plants in villages where no gridline passed through. The community-run powerstation not just powers people but also empowers them. This is the story of Yogeshwar Kumar. A man who had a vision that brought light to the...  

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In the last five years, CNN-IBN has brought you stories of courage and heroism of ordinary people who have dedicated their lives to selfless service. Watch these amazing and inspiring stories of some 'Real Heroes' in India, Have you heard of or seen such real heroes? Write to us here. 

Real Heroes from the northeast of India

In it's special series on people who brought a change in the lives of the needy, CNN-IBN brings to you ordinary citizens with extraordinary will, this time from the northeast. ...

Real Hero Bertha helps the visually impaired

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...  

Real Hero Keepu educates Lepcha community

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...  

Real Hero Pabitra a ray of hope for Assam dwarves

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...  

Meet the real heroes of our time

The show salutes those who stood up against all odds and made difference in the lives of many. ...