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How Parinaam is helping “Ultra Poor” people lead quality lives
Mallika Ghosh is seated behind a beautiful, if somewhat bulky, desk heaped with papers and bric a brac as I arrived for the interview. During the course of our conversation she reveals that her mother...
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How Jigyasa is fast tracking the country’s development by helping politicians...
While she was still in school in the US, Rwitwika Bhattacharya worked for an American senator from her constituency Katharine Harris. This experience made her realize how much help and resources are...
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How Debartha, Ritwik and Jayant are revolutionizing waste collection systems...
This story is a part of Portraits of Purpose series sponsored by DBS Bank. “Being good means nothing unless you are willing to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done,” said an angry Abraham...
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Playback for Nepal: Playing and entertaining to raise funds for those who...
“Over thirteen thousand people died in a decade long war. Half of that number (and counting) died in a thirty second quake. I dont want to sound all existential, would be politically incorrect and...
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‘Soap provides dignity. I believe it’s a right to be clean': Erin Zaikis on...
According to a recent study by Unilever, there are currently 70 million people in India who have never used soap. This means that one Indian child under 5 is dying every thirty seconds from diarrhea...
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Eat what you ate with: How Bakey’s is combatting plastic’s war on the...
A strange crisis It was not plastic, but another equally alarming environmental crisis, that got scientist Narayan Peesapaty give up his job at the International Crop Research Institute for Semi-Arid...
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Supplying dignity through e-commerce to Bengal’s exploited artisans: the...
Abyss Sanjay Guha Thakurta can recall the exact moment he decided he was going to be an entrepreneur. The IT Sanjay Guha Thakurta professional had been in the software industry for 15 years and was...
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‘I believe the world is waiting for us with open arms’: The hacker who became...
A near death experience Before he implemented his entrepreneurial solutions, Babar became a shepherd to empathise with the hardships of the community he had vowed to protect. And he almost lost his...
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It’s not about the prestige: 18-year-old scientist Karan Jerath on inventing,...
Earlier this year, in a glittering ceremony, Karan Jerath was awarded Intel’s Young Scientist Award for inventing a device that shuts down undersea oil spills. This horrifying manufactured...
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Making that voice heard: Why entrepreneur Eileen Guo starts up in conflict zones
Harnessing the power of social media to affect change is a story as old as the Internet. But to harness social media that lies beyond the Internet is what American entrepreneur Eileen Guo wants to do...
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15 year old innovator Trisha Prabhu on how trauma led her to create ReThink...
One day in 2013, Trisha Prabhu came home from school to read a news story about an 11-year-old girl who had committed suicide due to repeated cyberbullying. “I was shocked, heartbroken, and angry. How...
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How Madman’s Farm is exploring the question of living a meaningful life
Around 160km outside Bhopal lies the Madman’s Farm where a bunch of former city slickers, who’ve chucked their corporate jobs, have gathered together to grow their own food, practice sustainability and...
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Street children are the unlikely team of heroes behind the world’s most...
Shanno Khan began working in the pant hook-making industry when she turned 13, sometimes even working through the night. Her father is an alcoholic who rarely earned and mostly stayed away. Shanno...
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‘It requires breaking silence. It requires risking shame’ – Mapping Sexual...
“Even though I write for children, and visit many schools, I had never spoke about my own experience. I started to meet a number of girls – in schools, as well as the daughters of my friends – who I...
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One challenge has never been enough for me: Software pioneer Dame Stephanie...
Having escaped Nazi Germany at the age of five, survival is a concept Dame Stephanie Shirley never took for granted. She founded a software startup in 1962, when software came free with the computer’s...
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It’s not about the prestige: 18-year-old scientist Karan Jerath on inventing,...
Earlier this year, in a glittering ceremony, Karan Jerath was awarded Intel’s Young Scientist Award for inventing a device that shuts down undersea oil spills. This horrifying manufactured...
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Making that voice heard: Why entrepreneur Eileen Guo starts up in conflict zones
Harnessing the power of social media to affect change is a story as old as the Internet. But to harness social media that lies beyond the Internet is what American entrepreneur Eileen Guo wants to do...
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15 year old innovator Trisha Prabhu on how trauma led her to create ReThink...
One day in 2013, Trisha Prabhu came home from school to read a news story about an 11-year-old girl who had committed suicide due to repeated cyberbullying. “I was shocked, heartbroken, and angry. How...
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It’s a big dopamine release to hear a user say something positive about what...
Up until December 2010, Rohan Khara had not listened to a single podcast and admits that he was ignorant of the entire podcasting industry. Now he heads one of India’s handful of startups that are...
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Laundry beyond your local dhobi with hyper local delivery service Presso
A problem to solve Several hygiene-related factors made Amandeep Bhatia realise that a local laundry delivery service was the need of the hour. “We realised how disorganised this space is when we used...
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