To cynics who keep wondering whether self-defence techniques will save young women from rapists, Kravmaga expert S Sreeram offers a practical insight and shares the secrets of street fight

Meet Dhuran Oraon from Suwargurha village in Jharkhand, one of the many young members of socially excluded communities who have been trained to become catalysts of change, says Pranav P Das

Slum soccer is providing an opportunity for underprivileged youth, former drug addicts, and children of commercial sex workers to play for India in the Homeless World Cup in Poland next year

Mickey Mehta, an expert in fitness, holistic healing and life coaching is working at making Mumbai police emerge not just leaner and stronger, but also more mentally agile, says Mauli Buch

Exploring Tamil Nadu’s heritage through the countryside, about two score cyclists will go on an 865 km expedition, ending the year on a high note. P C Vinoj Kumar unveils the travel plan

A former layout artist with the now defunct weekly tabloid, Blitz, Mohammed Jamshed, is now fully immersed in Islamic calligraphy and has plans to revive the art, says Mauli Buch

 

Varsha Tanu, wife of Kota City SP, Prafulla Kumar, and Radha Maheshwari, wife of ASP Lalit Maheshwari started literacy classes for wives of policemen and it has helped many, says Rakesh Kumar

A 27-year-old woman from Mumbai, Dimple Mishra, abandoned by her husband, sought the help of journalists and bloggers on Facebook to seek justice from her husband’s family, says Puja Awasthi 

The self-defence training organized by Delhi Police for refugee women from Myanmar has enabled them to protect themselves from the dangers they face on the mean streets, says Nayana Bose 

There was an air of anticipation as eager crowds thronged Om Sai Anusuya Mata Circus at a village in Maharashtra. Sudhamahi Regunathan went to check out and found an old world come alive

Over the years, polo, golf and cricket have acquired a connect with fashion, with the sportsmen, especially cricketers like Sachin and Dhoni, and now the polo brigade making fashion statements

In a bid to reduce the high incidence of female foeticide and infanticide in Rajasthan, a local community has decided to put Rs.5000 as fixed deposit for every newborn girl, says Anil Sharma

From footwear to food, Kolhapur has something for everybody and since most things are relatively cheap here, a holiday to Kohlapur need not be too heavy on budget, says Sudhamahi Regunathan 

For the upcoming India Resort Fashion Week in Goa, fashion designer Rocky S who has styled Bollywood beauties including Bipasha Basu and Katrina Kaif, is ready with a special collection 

For weavers of the famed Pochampally sari in the Bhoodan Pochampally village of Andhra Pradesh, life is as complicated as the warp and weft of the fabric they weave, says Azera Parveen Rahman