TBI Blogs: How a 26-Year-Old Overcame Severe Depression and Built an...
Battling depression can be a tough experience, especially if one is all alone in a foreign land, surrounded by strangers. Ajinkya Kolhe had to leave his studies halfway and return from the US, but once...
View ArticleTBI Blogs: After 4 Surgeries & 500 Stitches, This Inspiring Former Naval...
Dealing with near-death experiences and life-threatening accidents can be a difficult experience in any circumstance. Binay Kumar, a former Navy officer, experienced this trauma first-hand, but refused...
View ArticleIndia’s Fastest Wheelchair Marathoner Wants to Race in Tokyo Paralympics....
Being the fastest wheel-chair marathoner in India, Shailesh Kumar deserves to represent India at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. But he needs our help in getting himself fitted with a customised wheelchair...
View ArticleThis Story About How a TTE Helped a Family on a Train Is the Good News You...
Sometimes even the smallest acts of kindness can go a long way in making someone else's day, or as a traveller found out during a recent train journey - an entire family's. A man named Vishnu Vardhan,...
View ArticleThe First Indian Woman to Go to Antarctica has Visited 180 Countries in 50 Years
"As a woman, I have no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world." -Virginia Woolf When you look at Meher Moos, affectionately called "Magellan" Moos, you see an elegant 72-year-old woman...
View ArticleCancer Robbed Her of Her Eyesight. But Not of Her Dream to Become an IAS...
Twenty-one-year-old Bhakti Ghatole from Nagpur lost her eyesight to cancer at the tender age of nine. But that hasn’t stopped her from pursuing her dreams and ambitions with infectious zest! It was a...
View ArticleHow a Tea Taster Became One of the Biggest Names in Indian Advertising
“Dum laga ke haisha… Zor lagake haisha!” If you have lived through the 90s, chances are you will recognise these lines immediately. After all, who hasn’t seen the iconic Fevicol ads that splashed on...
View Article5 Things You Must Know About the Other Indian at the Oscars This Year
Even the most casual movie-goers by now are probably familiar with the cast of the Oscar-nominated film Lion, especially Dev Patel and the 8-year-old sensation Sunny Pawar. But that's not the whole...
View ArticleFrom New York Times to CNN, What the World Media Is Saying About ISRO’s...
As India claimed its place in history by successfully launching a record 104 satellites by ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) in a single mission, the world sat up and noticed the country's...
View ArticleThese Two Guys Ran the Auroville Marathon. But They Ran 190 Km From Chennai...
Runners Peter Van Geit and Vipul Kumar are not your regular marathoners. While they ran the full distance at the Auroville Marathon in February (that would be 42.2 km), what set them apart is the fact...
View ArticleFrom Selling Water for 5 Paise, This Man Set up an Industrial Gas Business...
“I have told my story many times,” Nitin Godse starts our conversation jovially. Not surprising, considering this entrepreneur from Maharashtra has lived a richly layered life. Rising from abject...
View ArticleIn Their 50s, This Couple Cycled 1,000 Km in 10 Days to Spread an Important...
When it comes to waste management in India, there is little knowledge about how to do it. But Sanjeeta Singh Negi and Piyush Shah, both in their fifties, have pledged to create awareness in an...
View ArticleA Porter’s Son, T Natarajan Overcame Huge Odds to Become the Highest Paid...
Like every year, the IPL auction 2017 too has a thrown up some surprises. While all eyes were trained on big guns like Virat Kohli and Ben Stokes, it was left-arm seamer Thangarasu Natarajan, an...
View ArticleFor the Love of His Nation: Anganwadi Helper’s Son Quits TCS Job to Join the...
He had a high-paying job and a comfortable life as a systems engineer, but Bharat Darbarsingh Jadhav had other plans. Son of an anganwadi helper from a remote village in Buldhana district of...
View ArticleFrom Selling Snacks at Age 10, This Plantation Worker’s Son Built a ₹100...
My first introduction to iD Fresh was in 2015, when I’d first arrived in Bengaluru. My aunt, a capital dosa maker herself, casually pointed out that if I needed homemade idlis and dosas, all I had to...
View ArticleTBI Blogs: This 70-Year-Old Lost Her Voice Box to Throat Cancer, but...
Meet Nalini Satyanarayan, a 70-year-old cancer survivor who is now championing the cause of cancer prevention. Diagnosed with vocal chord cancer in early 2010, Nalini Satyanarayan underwent a surgery...
View ArticleNothing Could Stop These Individuals From Casting Their Vote in the Recent...
The left side of his body has been paralysed since 1992, but this has never come in the way of 76-year-old Abdul Gaffar Shaikh casting his ballot. A resident of Andheri (East), he has always exercised...
View ArticleAt 18, She Ran Away From Home to Avoid Marriage. Now, This Designer Showcases...
For fashion designers in India — arguably across the world — having celebrities wear their garments is a real achievement. In the case of Mumbai-based designer Vaishali Shadangule, her designs have...
View ArticleActing on an Anonymous Call, Andhra Youngsters Rescue Elderly Woman Starving...
"Today morning we got a call from an unknown person about an old lady (who) is staying at a road side near BC colony from last two months without having food... So immediately we responded and we went...
View ArticleAlumni of This Government School Came Together to Transform It, and the...
As many as 2,57,680 schools lack toilets – that’s 18% of all schools in India -- according to the Unified District Information System data for Education. A total of 58,221 schools don't have access to...
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