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

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

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

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 

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

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

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

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’

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

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

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

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

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