Domestic Help’s Son Saved Dozens on 26/11 — Now the IPS Officer Leading...
On the night of 26 November 2008, as uncertainty moved through Mumbai and people tried to make sense of what was happening, a small group of police officers stepped forward to protect whoever they...
View ArticleFor 10 Years, This Man Has Climbed 236 Steps Daily To Keep Mumbai’s 146-YO...
My first brush with Mumbai’s heritage came at 17, when I was a wide-eyed journalism student learning to find stories in the city’s everyday hum. Between classes and internships, I would wander with a...
View ArticleThis Hyderabad Man Has Served 10 Million Free Meals To People Outside Govt...
Mohd Sujathullah began his social work in 2016 when he was 22 years old. A student back then, his journey started by using his pocket money to feed the poor. He recalls the first time he offered some...
View ArticleMeet Hare Ram Pandey, The 66-YO Who Dedicated His Life to Raising 35 Girls As...
On 9 December 2004, Hare Ram Pandey’s life changed forever. He found a newborn girl abandoned in a forest. “When I found this girl, she was in a very bad condition. There were ants all over her...
View ArticleMeet the Heroes Saving Lives as Himachal Battles Massive Floods & Landslides
North India experienced heavy rainfall in the past three days. The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued warnings that more heavy downpour is expected in Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand,...
View ArticleIn Kerala, A ‘Tree of Goodness’ Helps Thousands Get Free Food, Palliative...
24 March 2020. Just like the rest of India, a town named Kanhangad, located in Kerala’s Kasaragod, went under lockdown. This was a shock and a major impediment to the many street dwellers, migrant...
View ArticleIn Delhi, Two Brothers Help Hundreds of Daily Wage Workers Get Free...
Mornings on a few streets in Delhi begin with a heartfelt endeavour — you may spot lines of people availing free medical assistance. Most of those in queues are migrant workers or daily wage workers...
View ArticleQuit His Dubai Job to Revive 118 Water Bodies: Meet the Winner of India’s...
With a high-paying job as a software developer in Dubai, Thanjavur-born Nimal Raghavan’s life was going well. But in November of 2018, his perspectives would shift when he visited his hometown. This...
View ArticleWhat Happens to Kids of Prisoners? Couple Used Savings to Built Them a Safe...
In the early 1990s, while working at the Reserve Bank of India in Bengaluru, V Mani would pass through the Central Jail on his commute. Here, he’d notice several children hanging around the premises....
View ArticleDelivery Executive’s Quick Thinking Saves 12-YO School Girl From Horrific...
Timely help is what saved a 12-year-old girl on 1 July. The girl was playing near the gate of Vasant Vihar Municipal School in Thane, Maharashtra, where she studies when a metal portion of the gate...
View Article‘Capsule Gill’ Biopic: True Story of Mining Engineer Jaswant Gill, Who Saved...
Akshay Kumar is all set to start shooting for Capsule Gill, a biopic on the life of Jaswant Singh Gill. While working as a chief mining engineer, Gill saved the lives of 65 people when a coal mine in...
View ArticleOf Grit & Glory: The Better India Celebrates The Nation's Unsung Sports Heroes
Elite athletes sweating it out in their relentless pursuit of excellence. Winning World Championships. Watching the tricolour being raised as the National Anthem plays. Medalists being feted and...
View ArticleTBI's 5 Most-Loved Stories of 2021 Are an Ode to Human Spirit & Creativity
2021 comes to a close, and what a frantic and extraordinary year it has been, in both senses. Thanks to the pandemic and our economic conditions, it has been extraordinarily difficult. But once again,...
View ArticleForgotten Pioneer Who Launched An Airline To Ferry Refugees During Partition
Every year on 6 April, residents of a small village named Alagappa Nagar—originally a township for the staff of the Cochin Textile Mill, near Thrissur district, Kerala—cut a cake to honour the birth...
View ArticleFor 20 Years, Banker Performs Tens of Thousands of Funerals With His Savings
“Main roz jeeta hoon aur roz marta hoon. Mujhe life se koi expectation nahi hai.” (I live and die everyday. I have no expectations from life.) Ashish Thakur, a 42-year-old banker from Jabalpur, has...
View ArticleThis Hero Turned His Auto Into an Ambulance For Injured Animals
Last week, I came across a sick puppy outside my home in Chennai. She was wailing in pain and unable to move. Her condition was such that when I put out water and milk for her to drink, she couldn’t...
View ArticleUnsung Punjab Scientist Saved 1000s In Odisha, But Denied Credit Because He...
Today, cities such as Bengaluru and Hyderabad are considered to be some of the finest and most notable science hubs in India. However, lesser-known is the story of the undivided state of Punjab, which...
View Article'Want to Help Before I Die': Mumbaikar Donates Spare Oxygen Cylinder, Raises...
Two weeks ago, Pascol Saldhana(54) received a distress call from Rafique Siddiqui, the principal of Holy Mother school, Malwani. He was desperately trying to locate an oxygen cylinder for one of his...
View ArticleMumbai Fisherman Breaks His Back Saving Lives, Gives 49 Souls A 2nd Chance
On a sweltering afternoon in May 2013, Rajaram Joshi, a fisherman from Vashi in Navi Mumbai, had just returned home after selling his day’s catch. Just when he was about to take a nap, his phone began...
View ArticleThe Forgotten African Woman Who Helped India Battle the British in 1857
To talk about the Revolt of 1857 without mentioning the valiant women’s contributions who fought in the war would be a gross injustice. When we think of the war in the women’s context, Rani Lakshmibai...
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