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Look who is changing India
BY RITA & UMESH ANAND
The work of bringing out a magazine is ceaseless and deadline driven. We go from one issue to the next ...
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Anupam Mishra
“Water harvesting is not some ATM into which you can put a card and get water,” said Anupam Mishra in ...
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Sachidanand Bharti
Uttarakhand's hillsides are cursed with forest fires in the dry summer months. But not so in Ufrainkhal in Pauri Gawhwal ...
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Dipankar Chakraborti
In the 1980s, long before India had woken up to the problems of automobile emissions, Dr Dipankar Chakraborti, then a ...
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Dhrubajyoti Ghosh
If the magical East Calcutta Wetlands are surviving, in whatever truncated form, the credit should to Dr Dhrubajyoti Ghosh, who ...
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Laxman Singh
The village of Laporiya in Jaipur district, Rajasthan, gets just 300 mm of rainfall in a year, but it is ...
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Ravikant Singh
When calamities strike anywhere in India, almost always it is Doctors For You who turn up. It has been so ...
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Damera Yadaiah
It was Dr Damera Yadaiah's team at the Special Care Newborn Unit at the Nalgonda District Hospital that nursed 650-gramme ...
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Sathyanarayanan Mundayoor
There are many surprising things about Sathyanarayanan Mudayoor aka Uncle Moosa and often just Uncle Sir to many. First is ...
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Zakia Soman
There is the Triple Talaq Bill and much before that there was Zakia Soman, fighting for the rights of Muslim ...
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Girish Bharadwaj
An engineer can transform lives. Girish Bharadwaj learnt that by sheer chance and stayed hooked. When he got his mechanical ...
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Ratish Nanda
Humayun’s tomb and other monuments in the Nizamuddin area of Delhi have been elaborately restored in an effort that would ...
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Parveena Ahangar
In 1990 in Srinagar, when Parveena Ahangar’s son went missing because he was mistaken for a militant, the question was, ...
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K. Loganathan
K. Loganathan has been successful in driving out the fear of mathematics from his students. His ability to bring maths ...
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Sumoni Jhodia
Sumoni Jhodia presides over the Ama Sangathan, a federation of several tribal groups in Odisha. It makes brooms and deals ...
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Kaittally Raman Jayan
Kaittaly Raman Jayan spent 11 years working in Dubai but the jackfruit tree which had given his family food security ...
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Kabir & Preeti Vajpeyi
School buildings mostly end up being either boring or daunting. But what if they could be designed to be attractive ...
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Gyarsi Bai
When Gyarsi Bai died in 2018, Baran district in Rajasthan lost an important local leader. She belonged to the marginalised ...
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Govind Desai
The communal riots of 2002 in Gujarat scarred relations for both Muslims and Hindus. When Urja Ghar was set up ...
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Praveen Kumar
As secretary of Telangana’s Social Welfare Residential Schools, Praveen Kumar is much loved and admired. A tall, lean man with ...
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Fatima, Acquiline and Matilda
When Fatima Mynsong, Acquiline Songthiang and Matilda Suting came to Civil Society’s Hall of Fame, they sang an anti-corruption song. ...
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Sitanath De
Dr Sitanath De, a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, could have earned crores. But his early childhood experiences ...
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Jogesh Kumar
Most young doctors dislike working for the government health system in rural areas. But at the age of 25, Dr ...
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Bashir Ahmad Mir
Bashir Ahmad Mir’s life is marked with tragedy. It is that experience which pushed him to help others who have ...
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Boya Pedda Rajanna
Boya Pedda Rajanna is a traditional veterinarian with vast knowledge of animal medicine. The fact that he dropped out of ...
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M.N.R. Venugopal
Dr Madhugiri Narayana Rao Venugopal, a scientist with the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), was living a retired life ...
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Aziza Tyabji Hydari
Aziza Tyabji Hydari was teaching in schools for deaf children for nearly a decade when she left her job in ...
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Kim Chaddha
In 1994, when Kim Chaddha found that her daughter was quite deaf, she was devastated. When her daughter was four, ...
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Chetan Ram & Rawat Ram
If the ordinary man gets his due in Nokha in Rajasthan, it is because of the Soochna Kendra that Chetan ...
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Shankar Singh
Shankar Singh has played a key role in spreading awareness about the Right to Information (RTI) law in the villages ...
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Sanjay Sahni
When Sanjay Sahni used a computer for the first time in August 2011, he didn’t know that he would be ...
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Mohammed Gafur Chhipa
Schools need good leaders. Mohammed Gafur Chhipa is a visionary. When he was made headmaster of the Government Upper Primary ...
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Rev. Pyrtuh, Rev. Sawkmie & Rev. Lyngkhoi
In 2005 in Shillong, Kyrsoibor Pyrtuh, Zambolis Sawkmie and Moody Lyngkhoi, pastors with the Presbyterian Church, started asking questions about ...
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Prakash Vinjamuri & S.V. Kameshwari
How best to spread the word about medical malpractices? Nothing can be better perhaps than getting doctors to talk about ...
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Sudha Sinha
Children with cancer have a good chance of surviving. But where do you find a pediatric ward and that too ...
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Nilesh Mohite & ANT
More than 150 million people suffer from some form of mental illness in India, but there are just 4,500 psychiatrists ...
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Honnesara Paniyajji Manjappa
A child labourer on a coffee plantation is now an assistant engineer in a power corporation in Karnataka, because of ...
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Women of Bundi
“I am the chairperson of my company,” said Savitri Gaur to loud applause from the large Delhi audience gathered to ...
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Mangal Singh
Mangal Singh is no engineer, but one doesn’t need to go to engineering college to create something. Singh is a ...
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Osama Manzar
As India goes digital, equality in access becomes crucial. It is what makes the difference between giving people the benefits ...
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K.P. Arjunan
In traditional medicine, reading the pulse is a part of diagnosis. An evolved physician will find what he needs to ...
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Ganesh Babu
A garden shouldn’t be just a visual delight, believes Dr Ganesh Babu, a botanist at the Foundation for Revitalisation of ...
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Yaradi Krishna Murty
When the Andhra Pradesh government handed over 900 acres of a wetland or beela in Srikakulam district to a construction ...
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Rajkumar Sharma
In Rampurabas in Rajasthan’s Tonk district, Rajkumar Sharma brought the government’s upper primary school to the level of a private ...
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V. Ganesan
Puducherry’s BR Ambedkar Government Middle School is in the middle of a slum and headmaster after headmaster had declared that ...
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Naurti Bai
Everything about Naurti Bai is a departure from the norm. She was the Dalit sarpanch of Harmada, a Rajasthan village ...
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Indraani Singh
In 1995 when Indraani Singh became India’s first female pilot to be Commander of an Airbus-300, she was an inspiration ...
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People's Forester
When forest fires ravaged the hills of Uttarakhand one vast stretch went unscathed. This is Ufrainkhal where communities have grown ...
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Prasanna Rajendran
Agricultural research stations of the government are normally so mired in neglect and sloth that no one bothers too much ...
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Chintakindi Mallesham
Chintakindi Mallesham has revolutionised the way the famous Pochampalli silk sari is made in Andhra Pradesh. He has invented and ...
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Beeram Ramulu
In Warangal district of Telangana, Beeram Ramulu uses the Right to Information law to access government records on farmer suicides. ...
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Gautam Sharma
A school needs good teachers to serve its purpose, but it also needs good administrators. Gautam Sharma is that. In ...
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Ramesh Gharu
Ramesh Gharu is a charismatic teacher and his classroom at the government school at Siyani village in Rajasthan is always ...
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Archana Godbole & Jayant Sarnaik
Archana Godbole, a botanist, and Jayant Sarnaik, a public-spirited nature lover, have redefined the economics of conservation. Their organisation, Applied ...
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Begari Lakshmamma
In Humnapur village of Telangana, no farmer buys seeds from seed companies. They don’t need to, because Begari Lakshmamma’s seed ...
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Evita Fernandez
Evita Fernandez is literally married to her profession — she chose to remain single so that she could focus on ...
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Chiranjeeb Kakoty
Dr Chiranjeeb Kakoty began the Northeast Society for the Promotion of Youth and Masses (NESPYM) in Guwahati to spread awareness ...
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