Kutch: Bharat Patel came to the rescue of fishermen of Kutch when industries were wiping away their livelihood. He took their voices to the authorities and despite being threatened, 'Bharat Bhai', as he's known, fought for them. Ibrahim doesn't squint at the glare of the waters. The vast Arabian has been his home for more years than the lines on his forehead. But today, his life and livelihood are at...
09:46 AM, Feb 24, 2012
New Delhi: Mittal Patel has been fighting a lone battle for the rights of over 300 nomadic tribes of Gujarat. She tries to help them claim their land rights and also procure their voter ID cards. Flesh trade has been the norm of the Saranias, a nomadic community of Gujarat, and for generations, all women have given in to it. But Hemi did not give up and decided to get...
09:55 AM, Feb 23, 2012
Ahmednagar: Girish Kulkarni has changed the face of the brothels of Ahmednagar. Through his tireless efforts he has ensured that no minors girls are bought and sold in Ahmednagar. He has also set up schools for the children of sex workers. Richa's eyes don't betray the life she led earlier that was a life confined to a brothel. She had been sold to a brothel as a child. "I'm the...
08:55 AM, Feb 22, 2012
Nagpur: A sports teacher in Nagpur has been giving hope to slum dwellers. Vijay Barse has given young runaways and former drug addicts a new identity by setting up slum soccer. Shehnaz would have been burning the stove and her dreams, cooking a meal for her family, in her tiny house. Drugs and alcohol would have consumed Akhilesh Paul as a young kid. Homkant, who ran away from home and...
09:22 AM, Feb 21, 2012
Pune: Beaten up and thrown out of her house by her husband at a very young age, Sindhutai Sapkal lived on the streets till she found her calling in life. She is now a mother to many abandoned children and runs four homes in Pune. It was three years ago, when a baby, Sakshi, was found in the corn field of a village in Maharashtra, without any shelter, warmth or...
09:03 AM, Feb 20, 2012
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01:26 PM, Feb 18, 2012
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05:19 PM, Jan 25, 2012
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10:22 PM, Nov 13, 2011
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09:33 PM, Sep 02, 2011
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09:59 AM, Aug 22, 2011
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07:14 PM, Aug 21, 2011
Gujrat: A former national level archer, Dinesh Bhil gave up on his international dream to set up an archery academy in the tribal region of Naswadi in Gujarat. Today Bhil's boys are already outshining others at both state and national level. Thirty boys with nothing but a burning desire to be the best in the world - no fancy track to train, no fancy equipment, these tribal boys of Naswadi...
09:54 AM, Aug 21, 2011
Ranthambore: Deviram Gurjar is a one man Army who, for the last two decades, has been fighting a lonely battle to protect an important tiger corridor in Rajasthan. He has been guarding the three kilometer hilly strip between Ranthambhor National Park and Kela Devi Sanctuary. He's planted some 500 trees to create a forest shelter for the tiger and it's under these trees that he's seen the animal walk past...
08:00 AM, Aug 15, 2011
Coimbatore: A bus conductor in Tamil Nadu has planted over 1 lakh trees across the state in the last 25 years. The conductor M Yoganathan is known as the Tree Man of the south. Yoganathan is a regular on the S-26 bus that runs on the Marudamalai-Gandhipuram route in Coimbatore. He has been a bus conductor for the past 25 years and is always on the go. "I can do...
11:25 AM, Aug 12, 2011
Prof Bhanumati runs a home for the mentally challenged in Thrisur. The children call her amma. ...
09:43 AM, Aug 11, 2011
A doctor couple in Tamil Nadu's Sittilingi valley are making medical care for all a reality. ...
10:54 AM, Aug 10, 2011
Koppal: How do you ensure the benefits of liberalization reach the poorest of the poor? Rajesh Bhat, who is just 27 years of age, runs The Head Held High Foundation, which is turning illiterate villagers into BPO employees. At the speed of 40 words per minute, Ramesh processes insurance forms. Ramesh and Yankamma try their best to meet the targets in the tiny rural BPO. Rajesh runs The Head Held...
09:38 AM, Aug 09, 2011
Hyderabad: A cruel and medieval tradition of poor Dalit girls, forcefully married off to the village deity and then sexually abused by the men in the village, still continues in Andhra Pradesh. But there is one woman standing up to it. Grace Nirmala helps rescue these girls and runs a home for joginis and their children. Anjali was just 10 years of age when her parents forced her to become...
08:48 AM, Aug 08, 2011
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06:56 PM, Aug 06, 2011
Nat Purwa: Chandralekha, who was born in a village where every girl is raised to be a prostitute, spent her life making sure the next generation of girls break out of the tradition. Thanks to her efforts, the girls are now going to school, getting married and are even employed. Explaining her story, Chandralekha said, "A drunk man abused me at gun point. That's when I broke down completely and...
10:03 AM, Aug 05, 2011
