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Inspiring! Losing a Hand Couldn’t Stop This Gritty Kerala Boy From Becoming a...

If you have limbs that are fully functional and not marred by any form of impairment, then you are way more privileged than a large segment of the population in India; 2.21 per cent to be precise (as...

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Well Digging to Construction Work – Professor Does It All To Make Dream Come...

Niyaz Panakaje is an assistant professor of commerce and management at Srinivas University in Mangaluru, Karnataka. A native of Sonanduru village, about 60 km from his workplace, the 29-year-old holds...

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After Losing Leg In Train Accident, Man Fights All Odds To Become Paralympic...

Manish Pandey, a resident of Hirmi village in Chhattisgarh, will never forget one particular date – 2 April 2011. It was the day India and Sri Lanka battled for the cricket World Cup, and India won....

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Watch: Neeraj Chopra’s Words on Dealing With Tough Times & His Incredible...

On 7 August, India’s star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra clinched the country’s second-ever individual gold medal at the Olympics. The first was bagged back in 2008 by Abhinav Bindra. But behind every...

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After 32 days of protesting in water – Jal Satyagraha is peeling off soles,...

In the Ghogalgaon village of Madhya Pradesh, 213 protesters have been standing in water for 32 days now. Here’s why, in spite of all the hardships they have to bear, they seem stubborn in the hope that...

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Delhi’s Shahbad Dairy Is Witnessing a Unique Drive for Education. And It’s...

Shahbad Dairy in Delhi is an area populated mostly by daily wagers and migrant workers, where the focus is always on survival. In this grim reality, a 14-year-old girl is leading the fight for...

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TBI Blogs: Ever Had a Question About The Value of Education? Ask These 5 Kids!

Children have no limits to their dreams, and no barriers or restrictions in their minds. These five kids, emboldened by their education, show that sometimes the biggest lessons can come from the...

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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...

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TBI Blogs: Doctors Told Nancy She Would Never Walk Again, but This Brave...

Paralysis after an accident can be a difficult reality to accept, especially for active individuals. However, Nancy, a young girl, refused to accept her paralysis as a final diagnosis, eventually...

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TBI Blogs: Dancer Sonal Mansingh Overcame a Car Accident & Debilitating...

Few of us know that Sonal Mansingh suffered debilitating injuries during a car accident in 1974, which almost ended her career as a dancer. Here are some excerpts from her biography, Sonal Mansingh: A...

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Cancer or Blindness, These Kids Didn’t Let Anything Come in the Way of Acing...

Nothing can come in the way of those who have set their goals up high and are determined to achieve them. Not blindness. Not cancer. Not any other hurdle. Tushar signing his book, The patient patient....

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TBI Blogs: Kanchan, Janki, & Lata Never Finished School but Are Ensuring...

For once, within the villages of the deep forests of Chhattisgarh, there appears to be a revolution of a different kind. Three young women have taken it upon themselves to change the lives of their own...

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How Andaman & Nicobar’s First Tribal Person With a PhD Triumphed Over Tsunami...

How often do you come across a person with a PhD? According to a report by All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE), 69,862 PhDs were conferred by universities, colleges and institutions across the...

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This Telangana Girl Battled Poverty to Dream Big & Study for a Better Future,...

Sravya Madasu, 14-years-old,  wants to be a doctor. “There are no hospitals in the radius of 10 km of our village. It is so difficult to get a doctor during emergencies. I want to be the first doctor...

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With a Can of Milk and Determination, This 19-Year-Old Is Funding Her Own Dreams

Young girls in India often face the dilemma of having their schooling interrupted. Reasons range from parents suffering financial difficulties to archetypical norms of society. While many have no say...

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Meet 17-Yr-Old Faseela, the First Doctor From This Kerala Fishermen’s Community

No dream is impossible for those who willing to strive hard towards achieving it. And one girl from the fisherman community in Kerala has proved just that. Amidst the residents of Harbour Township...

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Shot 4 Times on 26/11, This Ex-Commando Just Ran a 72km Marathon in Ladakh!

When Marine Commando Praveen Teotia battled against terrorists during the 26/11 terror attack at the Taj Mahal Hotel, Mumbai in 2008, he knew that he was tackling some of the most dangerous terrorists...

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She Does Her Duty and She Wins Marathons! This Lady Cop Is an Inspiration

Shobha Desai is a woman of all trades. She is a police officer, an athlete and a mother of a 12-year-old. It is, however, her love for athletics and its active pursuit that makes her stand out as a...

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Disabled and Broke, How Dharamveer Still Became India’s Greatest Cricket Fan!

How far will you go in the name of love? Especially if your fixation rests on Cricket? Never miss a single match that is telecasted? Or even better, watch it from the stadium in person? But no matter...

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How One Amazing Lady Transformed Barren Land Into a Lush Farm Singlehandedly

Caught in the endless doldrums of concrete jungles, we live in an era when many have forgotten what it means to connect with nature. Our lives have come to depend on the comfortable tangles of...

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