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
This Week, We’re Talking About Rima Das, and Why Her Story Might Be Exactly What You Needed to Hear Today Hey you. Yes, you, the one who has a dream living inside her but doesn’t know when to begin, how to begin, or whether she’s even “ready enough” to try. Maybe you’ve been waiting for
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Shooting Beyond Limits “ There was a time when I felt incomplete and sought external validation. It took time to embrace my true self, but the moment I did, magic unfolded. Archery changed my life.” — Sheetal Devi, on her Instagram Born on January 10, 2007, in the remote mountain village of Loidhar, Kishtwar, in
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In Andro, a small village about an hour from Imphal in Manipur, they call her Ebo Grandmother. She stands barely four feet tall. She owns no stadium, no fleet of buses, and no institutional funding. Yet for more than three decades, she has shaped the trajectory of women’s football in her region and protected an
Woman of the Week: Rupjyoti Saikia Gogoi Some stories don’t begin with ambition. They begin with discomfort and with the inability to look away from a problem everyone else has learned to ignore. Rupjyoti Saikia Gogoi was a schoolteacher living a quiet life near Kaziranga National Park in Assam, one of the most celebrated wildlife
Some women build careers. Some build movements. Varsha Deshpande built a quiet revolution that has lasted more than three decades. In 2025, she received the prestigious United Nations Population Award in the individual category, honouring her work in promoting gender equality and reproductive rights. But this global recognition was not an overnight achievement. It was
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When Art Becomes a Pathway to Education, Dignity, and Women-Led Change Step into the winding alleys of India’s slums and you’ll spot something unexpected: bursts of color where there used to be only fading grey. That’s Rouble Nagi’s touch, her way of seeing hope where others only saw neglect. She looked at those forgotten walls
When Conviction Is Stronger Than Doubt Every transformative idea is first met with resistance. Dr Armida Fernandez knows this well. When she proposed setting up a human milk bank at Mumbai’s Sion Hospital, the idea was questioned, doubted, and even debated at the highest levels of power, Parliament itself. Many were uncomfortable with the thought
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