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For 35 Years, Truck Driver & His Wife Rescued The Homeless, Buried Unclaimed...
Hunger and poverty can lead a person to make unexpected decisions. For 18-year-old Dev Dass Goswami, it was the two issues combined with the apathy he witnessed in his fellow human beings that made him...
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Republic Day: Meet Nani Palkhivala, The Legendary Lawyer Who Saved Our Democracy
In his treatise on political theory ‘Hind Swaraj’, Mahatma Gandhi heavily criticised lawyers for being instruments of British colonial rule and sucking the lifeblood of the poor. A strange criticism...
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This Brave Lady’s 9-Year-Fight Stopped Convicted Criminals From Being MLAs, MPs!
In 1919, the Southborough Committee on Franchise, which the British colonial government had set up to design a system of electoral representation for the Dominion of India, called upon Dr BR Ambedkar...
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Exclusive: After Saving Thousands in Kuwait, 82-YO Soldier Now Helps Tame...
Every morning, while heading to work or elsewhere, most of us are met with an unfortunate urban reality—Traffic. Even if we plan and time the commute, it feels like every hour is rush hour. Amidst the...
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Amid Gaza’s Violence, Here’s How One Palestinian Used The Mahatma’s Ideals To...
This article has been sponsored by the Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation 32 years ago, on 9 December 1987, during an infamous uprising in Palestine, a Palestinian found himself in a difficult position. The...
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Backstage Genius: This Unsung Student of C V Raman Helped Him Perfect The...
National Science Day is celebrated every year on February 28 to commemorate the discovery of Raman Effect by Sir C V Raman on this day in 1928. The discovery won him the Nobel prize in physics a couple...
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Working Weekends, B’luru Techie Has Singlehandedly Cleaned 14 Acres of a Lake!
At a glance, Venugopal Kumpalli, 39, is a hard-working IT professional in Bengaluru, the Silicon Valley of India. Like many others, he wakes up every morning and battles with the treacherous traffic of...
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Poverty Shattered his MBBS Dreams. So He Opened a School For Underprivileged...
The year is 1986. A 19-year-old teenager from India’s Golden district, Kolar, has arrived in his city of dreams, Bengaluru, with only one shirt and trouser. Although he has no place to live and no...
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Working for 40 Years, Kerala’s 85-YO Devaki Amma Grew a Forest All By Herself!
9-year-old Gouri is both anxious and excited to know the status of the sapling she had planted in December last year. She rings up her great grandmother Kollakkayil Devaki Amma for answers. Not wanting...
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Bengal Driver Distributes 4000 Pairs of Clothes to the Needy, Elderly Every...
Saju Talukdar, a 47-year-old commercial car driver, runs the Bir Birsha Munda Cloth Bank (BBMC) near Dimdima Tea Garden, nearly 100 km from Siliguri in the Alipurduar district of West Bengal. Though...
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B’luru Auto Driver Takes Pregnant Lady to Hospital, Looks After Newborn for...
After dropping a passenger at the railway station, Babu Muddrappa was on his way home in Whitefield on April 15. It was around 2.30 in the afternoon when he heard the distressed cries of a pregnant...
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Kerala Techie Single-handedly Took on Armed Robbers, Sacrificed Life While...
When 29-year-old IT engineer Saju Samuel was called to the Nashik office of Muthoot Gold Finance to fix some technical glitches in their system earlier in June 2019, little did he know that he would...
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Pradyot Kumar Bhattacharya, The Unsung Hero Who Gave His Life For India
“Dearest Mother, Do not weep for me just because I’m on my way to embrace death. Tell all my brothers that my heart lives inside the incomplete work I left behind. Finishing the remaining work rather...
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Kamal Ranadive, The Unsung Scientist Who Made Science Accessible to All Women
The Better India always strives to bring out little-known stories of India’s unsung heroes, and today we pay our tribute to the eminent scientist, Dr Kamal Ranadive. Kamal Samarth, better recognised as...
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Despite Death Threats, Fierce Official Frees 6,000 Hectares of Forest Land
Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this article indicated that the official had taken action against ‘poachers’. This was incorrect and a misuse of the official term. The action was taken against...
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‘We Shall Die to Awaken The Nation’: Bagha Jatin, Whose Bravery Shook the...
Siliguri, Bengal, 1907: It was a crowded railway platform. A man was rushing to his compartment, bringing water for a sick co-passenger, when he accidentally brushed past a British captain. With usual...
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Students, This #Coronawarrior Teacher’s Videos Are the Dose of Current...
Rajeev Poddar, 49, an Accounts and Economics teacher in Kolkata, was paralysed at the age of 9 in the year 1980. He had to drop out of school after Class 2, and for forty years now, he’s been confined...
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Kerala’s Man of ‘Final Goodbyes’ Has Helped Bring Back 5000 Bodies of Expats
“Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.” This quote by Haruki Murakami comes to mind as I sit down to write about Ashraf Thamaraserry. In the last 20 years, Ashraf has repatriated the...
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After Losing Mom to Cancer, Odisha Man Served 7000+ Patients; Cremated 1300...
Odisha has featured in the headlines several times for heart-wrenching instances of poverty, so much so that often families cannot afford to offer a dignified farewell to their deceased dear ones, and...
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TBI’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,...
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