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Delhi’s Lal Bagh children trade scrap runs for school morningsChildren from Lal Bagh are now attending school for the first time. Parents previously faced document and income loss challenges for enrolm...- In 1961, a Spanish farmer began building a cathedral by himself with scrap bricks and no blueprint, and kept at it almost single-handedly for 60 years, until the day he diedJusto Gallego Martinez built a cathedral from trash for sixty years. He began this massive project after leaving a monastery due to illness...
- Instagram emerges as platform for anti-caste Indian artDalit and Bahujan artists are reshaping the landscape of digital expression, turning social media into dynamic exhibitions of resistance. T...
- From Slums to Stethoscope: How Pinki Haryan from Mcleodganj escaped poverty and became a doctor after 20 yearsPinki Haryan, who once begged for food, is now a qualified doctor. With the help from a Tibetan monk and charitable trust, she pursued educ...
- PM Modi working on 'Sabka Sath, Sabka Vikas', Congress busy "criticising": Ram Temple chief priestPrime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the installation of the idol of Ram Lalla at the grand temple on January 22. The Sri Ram Janmabhoo...
- Bindeshwar Pathak: 'Toilet Man of India' who founded Sulabh and pioneered public sanitationBindeshwar Pathak, the founder of Sulabh, an organisation synonymous with public toilets and fighting open defecation in India, passed away...
- Nitish Kumar's schemes to empower Mahadalits 'well-intentioned', but need proper implementation: StudyNitish Kumar introduced the Mahadalit umbrella in 2007 after the Bihar State Mahadalit Commission recommended inclusion of 18 scheduled cas...
- How Azim Premji is rewriting the art of givingNow, more of India Inc should be a catalyst for social development in India.
- From antique barnis to bowls, vintage utensils tell a hundred talesThere are certain heirloom items that paint an entire community’s culinary practice.
- Meet the natives of the ocean: Go shark cage diving; spot the majestic narwhalsFor your next holiday, visit the big five of the ocean i.e. whale sharks, giant manta rays, humpback whales, dolphins and tiger sharks.
- Jignesh Mevani meets Rahul Gandhi, says will ask Dalits to not vote for BJPGandhi and Mevani had half-an-hour closed-door meeting at a farmhouse on the outskirts of Navsari.
- Will Yogi Adityanath march to the BJP’s beat of class-based political insecurity?Will Adityanath abide by established contours as CM? Or will he seek to change it to his preference? His choice is the gamble the BJP has t...
- Dalit suicide case: Why Rohith Vemula's death is the tipping point in caste bias on campusMost Dalit commentators say that they view this as evidence of BJP’s lack of commitment towards Dalits despite overtures made by Modi in 20...
- Changes in the Child Labour law: Amendment further ensures that poor children continue to workA law that forbade children under 14 to be employed has now bent itself a little and allows them to work in family-run enterprises.
- BJP pledges to end manual scavenging by 2016Earlier, senior party leader and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the party would be organising a series of mass contact programmes in th...
- Vegetarianism a growing trend: 7 kinds of vegetarians you may encounter at a restaurantVegetarians in restaurant-going India may have always felt somewhat ostracised for eating 'ghaasphoos' but they now seem to be having the l...
- Jago swachhata prerak! Modi rides in from the WestWhen I lived in Singapore I thought the city republic was obsessively clean — until I visited the Little India neighbourhood.
- Narendra Modi: One hundred days of latitudeThe good news is that the title of this column is not 'One hundred days of lassitude'. We have a government that appears to be working, war...
- 'Strange-looking animal' sparks panic inside Parliament complexCivets belong to the Viverridae family and are arboreal creatures who often find ashelter in air conditioner ducts.
- Failure to step up growth could impact national security: Manmohan SinghSpeaking from the ramparts of the Red Fort, Singh hoped that GDP growth would be a "little better" than the 6.5% achieved last year.
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