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Teacher’s Diary: ‘No matter what, she never failed in ensuring her attendance at school’
I have been teaching at the Keshavpur Primary School since 2004. There was one particular student in this school who is hard to forget.I remember hurrying to school everyday, just so I could make it...
Ari Mardan Singh 7 March 2023 11:01 AM GMT

Dream School: Where children from a slum in Lucknow, are encouraged to dream big
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh)At 3 pm in the afternoons, most of the residents who live in shanty towns in the area near Janeshwar Mishra Park in Gomti Nagar, Lucknow, are out at work. A majority of them...
Divendra Singh 24 Feb 2023 8:01 AM GMT

Bastar: A Special Task Force Camp Converted into a Tourist Resort Employs Surrendered Maoists
Bastar, ChhattisgarhJalandhar Nag’s ambition to join the police force remained a dream. Forced to join the Maoists at the tender age of 10, Nag said that he spent a decade fetching water, cooking and...
Deepanwita Gita Niyogi 14 Feb 2023 12:30 PM GMT

A wheelchair bound ‘teacher’ is changing lives of children with special needs in Kashmir
When Javeed Ahmad Tak went to visit his uncle in 1997, he was 23 years old, and studying at the Anantnag Degree College in south Kashmir. Little did he know then that that visit was going to be life...
Mudassir Kuloo 6 Feb 2023 9:52 AM GMT

A Bed of Roses in Drought-Prone Solapur
Wadji (Solapur), MaharashtraMaruti Kamble had been traditionally cultivating soybean and jowar (sorghum) in his four-acre land. In 2019, the farmer from Wadji village in Solapur district of...
Shrinivas Deshpande 4 Feb 2023 5:58 AM GMT

A polyhouse farmer in Karnal, Haryana, who earns a profit of Rs 5 lakh per acre
Anil Kamboj was among the five odd farmers who were selected by Indian Council of Agricultural Research – Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research (ICAR-IIWBR) to go to Australia as a part of the...
Sarah Khan 2 Feb 2023 11:40 AM GMT

A Mega Food Park with Cold Storage Facility is Changing Lives of Tribal People in Mangrol, Surat
Surat, GujaratIn October 2018, Mangrol taluka in Surat became home to the The Gujarat Agro Infrastructure Mega Food Park set up jointly by the central government and the Gujarat government at a cost...
Mayuri Talia 20 Jan 2023 7:41 AM GMT

Cold wave in Rajasthan: 40% mustard crop lost to ground frost, complain farmers
Jaipur, RajasthanFarmers in the districts of Sikar, Sri Ganganagar, Hanumangarh, Jaisalmer, and Barmer in Rajasthan are despairing. The cold wave that has gripped north and northwest India has caused...
Parul Kulshreshta 18 Jan 2023 6:34 AM GMT

A farmer grows water chestnut on land stripped of soil; earns profit, repays loans
Madan Kahar leaned his bicycle against the mud wall of his home in Champatpur village of Uttar Pradesh. He was preparing to fill air into its front tyre before leaving for work.The 45-year-old is a...
Manish Dubey 13 Jan 2023 9:22 AM GMT

The Kitemakers of Handipura, Jaipur’s 150-yo Kite Market
The kites are raring to fly. Bright-coloured with long tails, they hang outside shops in Handipura, the 150-year-old kite market of Jaipur. The lucky ones are picked up by the customers who will send...
Parul Kulshreshta 12 Jan 2023 12:20 PM GMT