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A true secularist

Krishnadas has been carrying a placard saying ‘Follow your religion, love everybody’ for three years in Mumbai. Arati Raval-Pandey finds out that it is his way of ushering in religious amity

Zooming ahead

Formed in January this year on Facebook, Bikernis is not just a group of Indian female bikers; for these women, who have defied gender stereotypes, motorcycles are an extension of their selves

What a son!

It’s not always a politician’s son hits the headlines for the right reasons. But a state minister’s son has helped 25300 youth get jobs in a single day and has created a new Guinness record

Rediscovering SRK

Going gaga over ‘Ra One’, the media failed to find out what Shah Rukh Khan does otherwise. Marianne de Nazareth, in an exclusive, turns the spotlight on SRK’s social responsibility that has made him talk about the importance of toilets 

In Sonia's turf

Fighting prejudices, Guidya educated herself, spinning rope in her spare time, and then set up a school at the verandah of her house in an obscure village in Rai Bareilly. Anjali Singh visits the school that has changed the local community

Dream school

What he was deprived of, Harekal Hajabba wanted to give the children of his village. So the illiterate fruit seller set up a school in Nyupadpu with his own meagre income, says Sahana Attur

 
Unshaken but stirred

On his way to Mt Manaslu, the riskiest mount to climb, Arjun Vajpai was caught in the earthquake. It did not shake him, rather stirred his spirit to scale new heights, says Sudheshna Sarkar

Catering service

A catering firm owner, 52-year-old Sanjeev Trehan, is there every morning, Monday to Friday, on the narrow Ghaziabad – Noida underpass on NH24 regulating the busy traffic as a ‘social service’

Rural hero

Narayan Bhide, whose leg was amputated 15 years ago, has set up a BPO in his village giving jobs to those rejected by the so-called reputed companies or those with average academic background

Friends for a cause

A man who couldn’t go to college because his family couldn’t pay for his education, is running a school in Jodhpur for poor children from his monthly savings along with three of his friends

A requiem to a fighter

RTI activist Shehla Masood, who was found dead in her car in Bhopal, had always been concerned about such killing of whistle blowers, says Kamayani Bali Mahabal, an associate in activism, who vows to move forward and carry on with the work

Silent reformer

Baba Seechewal seeks change, not by inciting people to revolt, but by asking them to take care of the environment. Meet the godman who is fighting to save Punjab’s endangered rivers and canals

 
Banyan mother

Saalumarada Timmakka is an extraordinary mother. The 80-year-old has raised 284 banyan trees in Karnataka. Kumar Buradikatti has the story of a childless woman’s dedication to Mother Nature

Heavenly school

Six years before the government made Right to Education a law, Uttam Teron implemented it in his Pamohi village in Assam by providing quality education to the Karbi tribe children. Kavita Kanan Chandra traces the growth of Parijat Academy

Lunch @ Re.1

This is too good to believe! Venkatraman, who runs a small eatery near the Government Hospital in Erode, offers lunch for just Re.1 for attendants of poor patients. Meet the unsung hero

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