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This Chemical Engineer Read One Story on ‘The Better India’ and Is Helping...
Reema Sathe, a chemical engineer, founded a start-up called Happy Roots, a food company that manufactures healthy, natural and preservative-free snack food, using local, farm-fresh ingredients. The raw...
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Meet the Woman who Fought Society and the Legal System to Become India’s...
Dr. Chandrani Prasad Verma fought tough odds to become India’s first female mining engineer. This is the story of her struggle, passion, dedication, and success. There was a time when virtually every...
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How The Better India Readers Brought Water and Lights to a Village in Just...
In April 2016, we appealed to our readers to help us transform a village. And within six months the mission has been almost accomplished. Pimpaldhara is situated in the Yavatmal district of...
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Angels of Demonetization: People and Businesses Who Won Hearts during the...
The demonetisation of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 banknotes by the Government of India on November 8, 2016, ensured that all such notes ceased to be legal tender starting November 9, 2016. The announcement...
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A School Teacher Who Transformed an Entire Village Needs Your Help to Make It...
Lonewadi, a small village in the Yavatmal district of Maharashtra, got its first vastishala (a makeshift primary school arranged by the government for villages that are far away from education...
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An NRI Couple Shows Us How to Return to India and Transform Its Villages
Ashish and Ruta Kalawar left their well-paying jobs in England and returned to India to help empower the rural citizens of the country. Help them make their adopted village open-defecation free!...
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This 16-Year-Old Feels Humiliated Because She Has to Defecate in the Open....
A young girl from Lonwadi village recalls how her village has developed in the past four years but one important thing is still missing. Rukmina is a 16-year-old girl from the village Lonwadi in the...
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Lonwadi Got Its First Toilet Due to Anjana Bai. Now You Can Help It Become...
Lonwadi is a small village in the Yavatmal district of Maharashtra. This backward village has made great progress, thanks to the patronage of one trust. But the villagers still lack one basic amenity -...
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Meet Farmers, Artists, Musicians, Activists and More at India’s first Land...
At the beginning of every new year, we thank everyone who made the previous one wonderful. Along with your near and dear ones, it’s time to thank those too who are responsible for the food on your...
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How a Small Rajasthan Town Came Together to Send This Labourer’s Son as an...
When a daily wage worker’s son got an opportunity to get into the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, the entire town came forward to help. And today he is working as a software engineer in...
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Meet the Engineer Who Chucked His Well-Paying Career to Help Beggars Become...
An engineer by profession, Ganpat Krishna Yadav could have held on to a lucrative job. Instead, he chose to set up an organic farm in Jaipur with the focused intention of providing employment...
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A Child with Hearing Disability Turned This Fashion Designer into a Certified...
Her daughter’s late auditory impairment diagnosis set this mother on a journey to change the way treatment is handled in India. Ritu Nakra was an all-rounder in high school, a national hockey player...
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This Teacher Who Started a Chole Kulcha Cart Is Now Helping Other Street...
“A woman is like a tea bag – you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water," said Eleanor Roosevelt. An example of one such story of grit is that of Urvashi Yadav from Gurugram who did...
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This Electrical Engineer and IIM Alumnus Is Now Helping Small Farmers with...
Engineer and business graduate Devi Murthy identified growing difficulties faced by small-scale Indian farmers. A majority of agrarian workers in the country were finding it increasingly difficult to...
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How One Man Is Single-Handedly Making Ahmedabad’s Kite Festival Safer
Manoj Bhavsar noticed a chilling trend in the accidents occurring during Ahmedabad’s kite-festival. This is how he decided to help. It was on a cold morning in December 2006. Ahmedabad-resident Manoj...
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17 Kite Flying Enthusiasts from around the World Share What They Love about...
The word Uttarayan originates from two Sanskrit words: ‘uttara’ meaning North and ‘ayana’ meaning movement. In combination they refer to the movement of the earthon the celestial sphere. The festival...
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Another Geeta Phogat in the Making. Can This Sole Female Wrestler From Her...
When 16-year-old Mahima Rathod watched Dangal, she was unable to control her tears. The reason was simple; she saw her own father, Raju Rathod,in Mahavir Singh Phogat’s character. Mahima happens to be...
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Beggars Are Studying Abroad and Child Labourers Are Becoming Doctors, Thanks...
Recently, the heart-warming story of Jayavel, a beggar from the streets of Chennai studying in the United Kingdom, went viral. The Better India team spoke to Jayavel and discovered some amazing...
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A Farm Labourer From Jaisalmer Made His 6 Daughters Mayor, Doctors, Engineer...
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” ― Nelson Mandela This is a story of an engineer whose 6 daughters are excelling in various fields, right from politics to...
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She Fought All Odds to Get a Degree, Now She’s Trying to Build a Public...
“We get offers from the nearby competitor schools, too, to join on a higher salary. But money is not what I am here for. I want to give and gain knowledge. That’s what a teacher is supposed to do,...
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