VIT Chennai will be honouring TWL’s Person of the Year 2011, V Venkatraman, whose Lunch @ Re 1 for the poor at his hotel in Erode, is giving food for thought for their B school students

Keeping in tune with its penchant for identifying do-gooders even among the underdogs, TWL has chosen its 'Person of the Year' – 2011. Editor P C Vinoj Kumar explains why Venkatraman, running a small eatery in Erode, qualified for the honour

The undying spirit of a poor, illiterate widow, Subhashini Mistry, to build a hospital in her husband's village has been captured in words by Anita Pratap and through the lens by Mahesh Bhat
 

To break a traditional law that wrongs women by depriving them of property rights, Rattan Manjari and her band of activists are trudging miles of rugged and inhospitable Himalayan terrain. Vishal Gulati meets Mahila Kalyan Parishad members 

The walls were built to keep slum dwellers at bay. But they broke it to help the ‘privileged’ people trapped in the inferno at the AMRI hospital. Rajashri Dasgupta meets the Good Samaritans

A fellow traveller in a bus opened the ears of Dhruv Lakra to the silent cries of the deaf, prompting him to employ poor, hearing impaired boys and girls in his company. Kavita Kanan Chandra visits the office of ‘Mirakle Couriers’ in Mumbai

Supercop Sanjiv Bhatt’s wife Shweta tells Priyanka Borpujari about the dangerous life the family leads after her husband accused Chief Minister Narendra Modi of instigating the 2002 riots 

IT professional Sapna Agrawal dreams of building a world class hospital in Agra for poor patients to get free treatment and she is raising the funds through 500 piggy banks in the city

Audrey Wabwire, a Kenyan journalist, travelled in a truck from Nairobi to Durban, through 5 nations, to report on climate change at community level, says Stella Paul who met her at Durban

When terror struck Mumbai three years ago on 26/11, some men turned heroes at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus and saved precious lives, says Mauli Buch, who caught up with couple of them 

Asha is the fastest woman in India. But the athlete, who ran 200 m in 24.36 seconds, lives in a mud house, helping her father, a vegetable vendor, in his business even as she attends college. Ajitha Menon profiles the determined girl

Two IITians who have been working with villagers in Bihar are set to transform the lives of many farmers, who will soon be supplying rice to Wallmart and exporting potatoes from their farms

With the commitment of a social worker and expertise of an engineer, Mula Devi, an illiterate woman, has changed Bhimnagar of Jalaun district in Uttar Pradesh. Anuradha Sahni finds out how she has infused a healthy lifestyle in villagers

Travelling across India, a doctor couple stopped in Tamil Nadu’s Dharmapuri district in 1993 to start another journey in providing health care to hill people. Today, Sittilingi valley has a full-fledged hospital, says Kavita Kanan Chandra

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