Siddharth Kumar Mishra did post-doctoral research on stomach and intestinal cancer at the National Cancer Centre, Gachon University in South Korea. He had a comfortable life and a well paying job, which he gave up to teach students in India and spread awareness about cancer in rural India.

Meet a 58-year-old grandmother, an ASHA worker in a village, who has found a tech guru in her 16-year-old granddaughter and is learning the nuances of the internet for work as well as entertainment

Reena Srivastava, born in the small village Dariha Mohalla in Basti District of Uttar Pradesh, teaches mathematics as a lecturer at B.N. Inter College, Akbarpur, Ambedkar Nagar, Uttar Pradesh since 2021. Here is her account of how she became a lecturer.

Intense rainfall, frequent floods, forest fires and droughts triggered by climate change are claiming millions of lives every year. The South-East Asia Region, which is home to more than two billion people, is highly vulnerable to climate change. Read more on the five priority areas for action listed by the global public health body.