There was a time when there was not a single toilet for 700 families inhabiting the Raja Ka Purwa slum in Kanpur. People were compelled to relieve themselves anywhere and everywhere possible, creating a scenario which surpasses the worst threshold of unhygienic. “If someone wanted to paint a picture of hell, the earlier condition of …
Buzz India’s Self Shakti Program, a classroom-on-wheels for women at the base of the pyramid in rural communities, is unique. Uthara Narayanan had always pondered over the one big question that is hopefully on every lawmaker’s mind — How do people beat poverty? With an educational background and family lineage in finance, Uthara always believed …
Pawan Mishra, in his critically acclaimed book Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy, had famously written, “The only thing God is afraid of is a strong-willed human.” Examples of such sheer will power are rarely seen though. Here in India, one man by the name of Vishnu Patel is doing something rather extraordinary. Aged 60, Patel is a …
Showing his commitment to his duty, a police constable ran nearly two km on a railway track through the jungles in Hoshangabad district, carrying a wounded man on his shoulder to an ambulance, probably saving the man’s life in the process, said police on Saturday. Showing his commitment to his duty, a police constable ran …
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She began by building a sustainable resort, and gathering artisans. And now you can help preserve an ancient tradition. Check it out! Despite being born in the land of high passes, Rigzin Wangmo Lachic Goji, the daughter of a serving Indian Air Force officer from Ladakh, had barely lived there. Education and vocation had taken …
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