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Roy of Light

India's Bunker Roy has shown that it is possible to electrify villages using solar energy and alternative fuels. His Barefoot College trains rural folk to become solar engineers and has just won a prestigious German-based award for nuclear-free solutions. Read on ...

History was Made Here

It was at Mumbai's JJ Hospital that two European scientists discovered the tuberculosis and plague vaccine respectively. The rooms in which they worked are a picture of neglect today. Read on ...

Riding into a Promising Future

Over 60,000 shiny new bikes rolled out of workshops to the homes of poor village girls in Gujarat, this year. They were the state government's gift to these girls. Now the girls can ride to their schools, situated far away. Read on ...

Camp of Co-existence

It is strange but true: carnivorous jackals and hyenas have been living amicably with hens, ducks, cows and buffalos in relief camps for the flood affected in West Bengal for some time now. In an amazing development, the hunters are practising 'a live and let-live' policy with the hunted. Read on ...

Villagers go Online

The internet is connecting the lives of 20,000 villagers living around Pondicherry, with the world outside. And in the process, it is changing them forever. Read on ...

The Empire strikes back

Indian teachers specially hired to teach, among other things, English to the English! Strange, or wonderfully fitting? Read on ...

Taming the Boors

Six-footer Lakshmi Singh, a young woman police officer in Lucknow, has done what her male colleagues failed to do. She has tamed the boorish and ill-mannered male students of Lucknow University, who had made life miserable for the girls in the campus. Read on ...

Duped Again

Poor tribals of Shivpuri in Madhya Pradesh are supposed to be rich from owning sandstone mines. In reality though, they helplessly watch while powerful miners walk away with their share of profits from the mining business. Read on ...

Origamist Whizkid Sivaram

The 12-year-old child artiste is the flagbearer of the ancient Japanese art form of Origami, in India. He folds a single sheet of paper more than 100 times to make fascinating creatures and even gods. So good is he that he was the sole Indian delegate at this year's annual Origami Convention in New York. Read on ...

The Magic Carpet

Initially, Sheikh Tayyab Mahajan wanted to weave the longest rug in the world to get into the Guinness Book of Records. Now, with a rug that is already 900 feet long, he wants to weave into it the diverse cultural patterns of India. Read on ...