It was in 1992 that Vidya Athreya first saw a leopard in the wild. Thus began a story of love and friendship that has lasted for three decades.
Artist Mayuri Chari whose installation series, 'I Am Not Created for Your Pleasure', questions and challenges regressive patriarchal norms
Kandal Rajan planted mangroves as he fished along Kannur's Pazhayangadi river and has now even started a mangrove nursery.
Agriculturist CV Raju single-handedly revived the Etikoppaka toy industry by taking it back to its organic roots.
Due to the persistent efforts of the Hasdeo Aranya Sangharsh Samiti, the Chhattisgarh Assembly recently passed a unanimous resolution urging the Union government to cancel all coal blocks in Hasdeo Aranya forest
Punjab’s Forrest Gump, Sewa Singh, campaigns for tree plantation and plants trees in public places
Suicide by her father drove Kiranjit Kaur to educate widows of farm suicides about their rights and eventually built a strong solidarity network.
After the death of a close friend in a road accident, Raghvendra Kumar, nicknamed the 'Helmet Man of India', has been distributing helmets for over eight years now
Esmail Daimary was instrumental in creating the 55K acre Gedshimani Joint Reserve Forest, which drastically reduced the decades-old man-elephant conflict in the region
49-year-old Arun Gupta runs the Pinkishe Foundation, a non-profit organisation that runs pad banks across 25 states and Union territories, and works toward...
Abodh Aras on leaving a cushy corporate job to start NGO Welfare for Stray Dogs
Kunal Maan, who grew up in a red-light district, started Maan Foundation to provide 'love and respect' to the women who earn a living out of the 98 brothels in...
Mira Kagti set up Sishu Sarothi, the Northeast’s first school for specially-abled children.
After losing her daughter to a car accident, 64-year-old Dorris Francis spends four hours, the busiest ones, every day of the last 14 years on the road, a cap...
Many from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh aspire for a government job. Perhaps because it is associated with respect, status and job security in a state where...
The pro-Indian government militia, Ikhwan-ul-Muslimeen—that targeted Pakistan-backed militants in Kashmir—was launched in 1993 by popular folk...
The culture of rifles among Adivasis, aided by the ever-increasing deployment of paramilitary forces, has permanently mutated the central Indian forests in...
In Uttar Pradesh, especially, encounter killings have become the new normal and have gained wider acceptability among civilians as well as law enforcement...
The highest levels of government keep encouraging police, paramilitary and army units to eliminate "undesirables" even as the public cheers the rogue elements...
Experts feel Prashant Kishor wants to replicate AAP’s (Aam Aadmi Party) formula of issue-based politics in Delhi, but contend that it may not be possible in...
The secret killings are not the first cases of alleged extrajudicial killings in Assam. Since the 1990s, individual cases of extrajudicial killings have been...
12 Maharashtra police officers took on Mumbai’s underworld and broke its back. All of them fell from grace faster than their trek to fame.
Since there is a thin line between exercising the right to self-defence, retaliation and using excessive force, police encounters must always be looked at with...
The government retaliation against Khalistani terrorism inaugurated a chapter in the state's history that's yet to end
Not only are fake ‘encounter’ killings by cops rampant across the country, they are wildly cheered by a people who have lost faith in the criminal justice...
