| Hello! Here is today's edition of positive news! | Oct 19, 2016 04:27 pm | Sanchari Pal
For centuriess, hundreds of megalithic stone sentinels or menhirs have stood guard in the little hamlet of Vangchhia in the Champhai-Farkawn mountain range of Mizoram. Called the Kawtchhuah Ropuithe, these mysterious megaliths may hold the key to hitherto unknown facts about a lost civilisation.
| | | Oct 19, 2016 03:45 pm | Ranjini Sivaswamy
Plastic drums, paint cans, buckets, glass bottles and throw away junk – what do you get when you bring all these together? "Music!" say the rag picking children of Mumbai's Dharavi slum.
| | | Oct 19, 2016 02:30 pm | Gayatri Manu
Veeraswamy is a 90-year-old restaurant located on Regent Street, London. It recently received the highly prestigious Michelin Star.
| | | Oct 18, 2016 07:49 pm | Sanchari Pal
While some folk theatre forms like raslila, nautanki and ramlila are recognized all over the country, there are some which, in spite of being equally amazing, remain largely unnoticed. Here is a list of 12 beautiful yet lesser known folk theatre forms from across India.
| | | Oct 18, 2016 07:25 pm | Aishhwariya Subramanian
A Mumbai cab driver has been hailed as a good Samaritan by thousands after he recounted a story about the time when he saved a woman from a bunch of drunk men who were harassing her in the middle of the night.
| | | Oct 18, 2016 06:24 pm | Aditi Patwardhan
In defiance of the belief that only high-end infrastructure and expensive facilities can produce talented tennis players, a boy from Gohana, who learnt and practised the sport on a mud court, has emerged as the new national tennis champion.
| | | Oct 18, 2016 05:47 pm | Gayatri Manu
Madhavi Latha, founder of the Wheelchair Basketball Federation of India talks about using team sports to build the self-esteem of people with disabilities.
| | | Oct 18, 2016 05:10 pm | Gayatri Manu
In order to raise awareness about the far-reaching positive effects of educating girls, Girl Rising released a video titled 'We Dream, We Rise.'
| | | Oct 18, 2016 05:05 pm | Guest Contributor
Vanita Balbhim Manshetty, a 35-year-old farmer from Maharashtra, took up the one-acre farming model in 2014. Today, as an independent farmer, she is happy to provide her family with nutritious, organic food.
| | | Oct 18, 2016 05:00 pm | Aditi Patwardhan
Shalini Munuswamy, who was rescued from bonded labour and given a chance to continue her education five years ago, has successfully graduated from high school and is all dreamy-eyed about going to college. The road ahead, however, isn't that easy for her.
| | | Oct 18, 2016 04:31 pm | Video Volunteers
Nineteen year old Prem Thakur has no background in engineering. But that didn't stop him from pursuing his dream of building his own buggy car.
| | | Oct 18, 2016 04:31 pm | Sanchari Pal
Largely overlooked by writers and historians, this is the little know story of India's youngest spy, 16-year-old Saraswathy Rajamani, who smuggled secrets for the Indian National Army's intelligence wing.
| | | Oct 18, 2016 01:29 pm | Gayatri Manu
In 2006, Santhi Soundarajan was stripped of her silver medal for failing a gender test at the Asian Games. Ten years later she has been appointed as a coach.
| | | Oct 18, 2016 12:56 pm | Gayatri Manu
Ankit Chadha, a writer and storyteller talks to The Better India about reviving an ancient Urdu storytelling form called Dastangoi.
| | | Oct 18, 2016 12:32 pm | Aditi Patwardhan
This gutsy Bareilly girl, a survivor of rape, has given birth to her rapist's baby after a UP court refused her permission to abort the fetus. But she refuses to marry the man who brutalized her, despite immense pressure to do so.
| | | Oct 18, 2016 12:20 pm | Teach For India
Kushal Dattani was pursuing his Masters in Finance in Australia, when he first took on the role of a special education teacher. Today, he is helping teachers build more inclusive classrooms through his Samait Shala project.
| | | Oct 18, 2016 12:31 am | Aditi Patwardhan
Suneel, a first-time corporator, started helping out the pourakarmikas (civic workers) because of a shortage of workers in the city's sanitary workforce.
| | | Oct 17, 2016 05:32 pm | Sanchari Pal
A much-loved icon of modern India, the deliciously witty Amul Girl turns 50 this October. Here's the interesting story behind the creation of the iconic blue-haired girl who has been winning hearts with her tongue-in-cheek one-liners for decades.
| | | Oct 17, 2016 05:27 pm | Factly
The Trinamool Congress recently became the 7th political party to be recognized as a National Party in the country. But when is a political party recognized as a National or State Party?
| | | Oct 17, 2016 05:25 pm | Guest Contributor
Satyarupa Shekhar writes about a survey in Chennai to learn more about abandoned and impounded vehicles, which in turn revealed how the police deal with the situation and what more can be done.
| | | Oct 17, 2016 05:23 pm | Wildlife SOS
Sloth bears have been declared a 'Vulnerable Species' under the IUCN Red Data List, and are poached for their body parts which are believed to have medicinal value. Wildlife SOS recently rescued a young and healthy sloth bear in Karnataka.
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