Bharat Yagnik

Special Correspondent, TOI

Bharat Yagnik is Assistant Editor with The Times of India, Ahmedabad. With nearly three decades of experience, he covers education, higher education, human interest stories, and rural journalism. His ...

Bharat Yagnik is Assistant Editor with The Times of India, Ahmedabad. With nearly three decades of experience, he covers education, higher education, human interest stories, and rural journalism. His work highlights the lives, struggles, and achievements of people in Gujarat’s villages and small towns, along with key developments in the education sector. Bharat is known for his empathetic storytelling and commitment to covering stories often overlooked by mainstream narratives.

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Stories by the author

• Canada student visa rejection rate 50%, even toppers turned down

  
  23 Jul 2022 10:49 AM IST
• 3 generations of women from wealthy family decide to become monks in search for happiness & peace

  
  05 Jan 2021 01:30 PM IST
• Hitesh Singh: The 22-year-old son of a chauffeur who made it to IIM Ahmedabad

  
  08 Apr 2019 10:29 AM IST
• Hitesh Singh, the 22-year-old son of a chauffeur who made it to IIM Ahmedabad

  
  08 Apr 2019 09:25 AM IST
• BSF asks Gujarat villages along border to go for blackouts

  
  04 Mar 2019 10:47 AM IST
• 30-year-old US church to be converted into temple

  
  24 Dec 2018 01:10 PM IST
• Why Kenya’s Gujaratis are all ‘cashing out’ of Kutch

  
  08 Sep 2018 10:33 AM IST
• 17-year-old monk to pull off the great memory trick by facing 200 random questions at one go

  
  31 Aug 2018 09:40 AM IST
• Gujarat's Class XII textbook says Rama abducted Sita

  
  01 Jun 2018 11:40 AM IST
• Why a 24-year-old CA has decided to renounce crores and become a Jain monk

  
  20 Apr 2018 10:20 AM IST
• 50-year-old US church building begins new spiritual life as Swaminarayan Temple

  
  26 Dec 2017 10:30 AM IST
• ‘Patidars will have massive impact on election results this time’

  
  29 Nov 2017 11:01 AM IST
• Those conspiring against me will bite the dust: PM Narendra Modi

  
  09 Oct 2017 11:22 AM IST
• Triumphant Vadnagar boy returns home as Prime Minister

  
  08 Oct 2017 08:56 AM IST
• How a village with a penchant for teaching became Gujarat's guru gram

  
  10 Jul 2017 11:23 AM IST
• Gul Mohammad: The Muslim who became Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath's gurubhai

  
  28 Mar 2017 11:49 AM IST
• Nairobi club proud that member's son to be RBI governor

  
  22 Aug 2016 10:57 AM IST
• To improve sex ratio, Gujarat hospital offers to waive charges for girl child

  
  19 Jul 2016 12:18 PM IST
• In Sanand, billionaires take up factory jobs

  
  08 Dec 2015 10:50 AM IST
• Full steam ahead for city's 40 dhokla factories

  
  27 Sep 2015 10:45 AM IST
• Gujarat govt green-lights world's tallest statue of sitting Buddha

  
  13 Sep 2015 11:05 AM IST
• Patel agitation leader Hardik Patel passed BCom exam with grace marks

  
  28 Aug 2015 10:57 AM IST
• Zalak Apartments: The safest Hindu abode in Ahmedabad lies in Muslim ghetto

  
  31 May 2015 10:31 AM IST
• MA Yusuff Ali, Bimal Shah and others amongst the poster boys of Pravasi Bharatiya Divas

  
  11 Jan 2015 11:18 AM IST
• Narendra Modi nurtured Nepal link 16 years ago

  
  03 Aug 2014 10:11 AM IST
• Centre studies PM Narendra Modi’s animal hostel scheme

  
  07 Jul 2014 11:07 AM IST
• Gujarat's dream village Punsari to be Indian role model

  
  28 Jun 2014 01:11 PM IST
• Election results 2014: In Narendra Modi’s birthplace Vadnagar, it is Diwali

  
  17 May 2014 12:26 PM IST
• No 3D effect this! 148 Narendra Modis in Gujarat

  
  28 Apr 2014 09:38 AM IST
• This Gujarat village has 117 women crorepatis

  
  24 Dec 2013 08:10 AM IST
• Thanks to GIDC bounties, farmers in Gujarat's Khoraj village now plan to buy SUVs

  
  28 Nov 2013 10:44 AM IST
• Job scarcity keeping college seats vacant

  
  18 Nov 2013 12:25 PM IST
• Kenya terror attack: 20 Gujarati children missing, many feared dead

  
  25 Sep 2013 06:41 AM IST
• Assembly Elections 2012: Stage set for Narendra Modi’s swearing-in

  
  20 Dec 2012 05:23 AM IST
• $100 million Swaminarayan temple coming up in Los Angeles

  
  18 Oct 2012 10:19 AM IST
• Ramilaben's dairy farm: Gujarat woman milking millions in dairy den

  
  07 Jul 2012 10:26 AM IST
• Upanishads to fire Sunita Williams’ spiritual odyssey in space

  
  02 Jul 2012 10:33 AM IST
• Amdavadi architect to recreate Angkor Wat

  
  31 Mar 2012 08:10 AM IST
• Ambaji to be Gujarat's Golden Temple

  
  14 Sep 2010 03:02 PM IST
• IIT-Gandhinagar draws top NRI brains

  
  08 Dec 2009 04:10 AM IST
• IIT-Gandhinagar draws top NRI brains

  
  08 Dec 2009 04:10 AM IST
• World fetes Gandhi, but no takers in India?

  
  02 Oct 2009 09:45 AM IST
• Modi makes chess mandatory in schools

  
  07 Aug 2009 10:00 AM IST