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The wash brigade: Inculcating a simple habit to fight coronavirus pandemic

As the world population feverishly washes hands, an initiative by a small NGO in Uttar Pradesh seems prescient

It's not just the virus...

So far, the number of cases in India is not large. I suspect that this is because the virus hasn't yet reached India's slums and low income neighbourhoods, writes Geetanjali Krishna

Delhi violence: Doctors inspire many to promote compassion in health care

A movement led by medical students, resident doctors and research scientists, PMSF has a simple agenda.

The birth of an unlikely hero

Humanity by people like Mansuri are the biggest antidotes to the toxic atmosphere that has corroded our social fabric.

Some hard questions for us

Delhi's violence hasn't just wounded people's hearts and sensibilities - its repercussions will be felt on their pockets for years to come

Delhi violence: A narrow lane in Chaman Park is victims' new home

Shiv Vihar is shrouded in unearthly quiet. Hasmuda Ansari's beloved Masjid has been burnt to crisp inside

As oblivion looms over weavers, a group is speaking for their survival

The group's chief believes that reviving the handicraft and handloom sector could be a critical step in developing a more robust economy

Lessons in love

After all the depressing hate speeches and divisive politics we've seen since the beginning of 2020, the sense of love, patriotism and community I experienced in Sundarnagri was a breath of fresh air

The foundation's dream: Self-sustaining villages to reverse urban migration

Swades has identified 300 'dream villages' - communities they hope will soon become independent and self-sustaining

Of broken hearts and folded hands

Geetanjali shares her confrontation with Kamini

Reason to smile

Every year, almost 35,000 infants are born with cleft lip and palate

How a residential home provider is coming to aid of child cancer patients

The study has found that the environment plays a statistically significant role in outcomes of cancers like acute leukaemia which need intensive treatment

When survival trumped bias

What years of education, social messaging and reservations couldn't accomplish, water scarcity did in one summer

This organisation brings joy to low-income schools in Delhi with music

An organisation is using music to transform the lives of children studying in low-income schools

When connectivity connects…

The man hadn't completed school but it took him an hour to sort out her forms. He got the parish details from their church Whatsapp group for school number one

Malabika Sarkar on what it takes to head liberal campus in illiberal times

Over lunch, Sarkar talks about critical differences between the pedagogies followed by older universities and Ashoka and what it is like to be at the vanguard of an academic revolution

The invisible young heroes of 2019

The math is simple: young changemakers have more time than their older counterparts to make a difference

Fear and humanity know no god

Instead of looking at refugees through the unnecessary lens of religion, India should ratify the 1967 Protocol of the 1951 United Nations Refugee Convention

Rebalancing nature

Book review of Rewilding: India's Experiments in Saving Nature

The dark side of the veil

As long as the community insisted young women follow hackneyed traditions, Mausariya said, it won't be easy.