Padma Shri Awardee · Founder, Nari Gunjan · “Cyclewali Didi” to Lakhs of Musahar Families. There’s a photo you won’t find in any glossy magazine spread. It’s of a young woman from a comfortable Kerala household, sitting cross-legged inside a mud hut in a Musahar tola in Bihar, eating rice cooked the way the community […]
In 1848, a 17-year-old girl walked to a one-room school in Pune every morning, and villagers threw stones and cow dung at her sari because she dared to teach girls to read. That girl was Savitribai Phule. Today, another Indian woman just won a $1 million global prize for turning slum walls into classrooms. Between
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MBA graduate · Youngest sarpanch in India · Former head of Soda village, Rajasthan Chhavi rajawat had every reason to stay in the city. An MBA. A corporate resume with Bharti Airtel, the Carlson Group, and the Times of India on it. A comfortable, predictable life in Jaipur. Chhavi Rajawat walked away from all of
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Disability rights activist · Founder, Soulfree · India’s first quadriplegic PhD from IIT Madras She calls herself “a cripple who is whole.” Not with bitterness. Not with irony. With a quiet, fierce conviction that her body, paralysed from the neck down since she was 18, does not define the sum of who she is. Preethi
Social Activist · Founder, Narmada Bachao Andolan · Voice of India’s Forgotten Millions There is a photograph that India will never forget. A woman, waist-deep in the waters of the Narmada River, refusing to move. The dam gates are open. The water is rising. Police officers stand at the banks, watching. Officials have warned her
THE OFFICER WHO CHOSE PEOPLE FIRST IPS Officer · Superintendent of Police, Nagaland · 2016 Batch “The virtue of keeping society always in order, more peaceful, and progressive made me choose the law enforcement career.”— Dr. Pritpal Kaur Batra, IPS Gold Medalist Who Chose a Badge Over a Clinic Dr. Pritpal Kaur Batra is not
This Mother’s Day, forget the perfect Instagram tributes. Meet 7 real Indian mothers who survived abandonment, poverty, violence, and heartbreak — and still built extraordinary lives for their children. From a woman who raised 1,500 orphaned kids to a widow who built a free hospital earning ₹1.25 a day, these stories are raw, powerful, and impossible to forget.
The Woman Who Stood on Top of the World — Five Times There is a small town in Arunachal Pradesh called Bomdila, tucked into the foothills of the eastern Himalayas, where the air is clean and the mountains feel close enough to touch. It is here that Dr. Anshu Jamsenpa was born, raised, married, and
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Mars on the first attempt. The Moon’s South Pole for the first time in history. Meet the scientist who made both happen. Some people look up at the night sky and see darkness. Ritu Karidhal looked up and saw her future. From a middle-class household in Lucknow, with no coaching centres, no special resources, and
