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75 YEARS OF INDIA'S INDEPENDENCE
We The People: Pradeep D’Souza -- The Birdman Of Mumbai

Pradeep D’Souza, who grew up in a family that adopted stray dogs and took care of sick puppies, is now the keeper of many fragile species, both birds and small animals.

Dinesh Parab
75 YEARS OF INDIA'S INDEPENDENCE
We The People: The Matchmaker For Girls From Impoverished Families

Ashvini Jojra’s social work is going on under the canopy of Serving All Humanity Yearningly Over the Globe (Sehyog India), of which he is the founder-president.

Ashutosh Sharma
75 YEARS OF INDIA'S INDEPENDENCE
We The People: How A Doctor Saved One Of Kahsmir’s Most Famous Meadows

Used as a live firing range by security forces, Tosamaidan had turned into a death zone shells often killed civilians. Then Dr Shaikh Ghulam Rasool stepped in.

Naseer Ganai
75 YEARS OF INDIA'S INDEPENDENCE
We The People: The Last Maestro Of Srinagar’s Stringed Instruments

83-year-old Ghulam Mohammad Zaz is the last working craftsman in eight generations of Srinagar’s famous craftsmen who make santoors, sitars and rababs.

Peerzada Muzamil
We The People: The Guardian Angel For People On Both Sides Of Indo-Pak Border

Jagbir Singh’s Pritam Spiritual Trust, a voluntary organisation, has provided artificial limbs to over 10,000 people, mostly landmine amputees, victims of cross-border firing and shelling.

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Updated: 05 Feb 2022 5:45 pm

For a hypothetical political campaign, it seems very real. And it may be the longest yet. A grassroots army stands ready for #Hillary2016 and popstar Katy Perry has already offered to write a theme song.

Hillary Clinton’s artful non-answers aside, the machinery behind her swung into motion the day Barack Obama won his second term in 2012 and the field was cleared for 2016. A Twitter campaign has grown (@ReadyForHillary) along with an eponymous ‘Super PAC’—a special political action committee allowed to raise unlimited sums of money from corporations and individuals. It was launched in April last year, barely two months after Hillary resigned as secretary of state to write her memoir and get some much-needed rest.