Positive Stories
Diwali Special: Unique diyas that stay alight up to twenty four hours
Ashok Chakradhari, a potter from Chhattisgarh has used his traditional skills with a dash of science to come up with an oil lamp that can burn uninterrupted for an entire day.
Tameshwar Sinha
Code for success: 25-year-old Prem Sankar builds websites. He is autistic
Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder at the age of five, Chennai-based Prem Sankar and his family fought a broken education system and job market before he finally turned entrepreneur.
Barkha Kumari
Setting Benchmarks: Tribal kids in far flung areas are getting educated in unique ways in the COVID-19 pandemic
Banyan trees, loudspeakers, song, dance and motorcycles are their teaching aids; educators in rural tribals areas are innovating, experimenting and educating children without a smartphone in sight.
Pankaja Srinivasan
Galloping Success: How Rupa Kunwar Singh became the first Indian female jockey
The jockey, who has won 727 races in the country and abroad, battled sexism before trainers would trust her with good horses. She now handles 18 horses in the MAM Ramaswamy stable, Chennai.
Sanchari Samanta
The Perfect Touchdown: Six months later, and after a journey of close to 10,000 kms, Vadla, the common crane, is back
A tracking study documents the nearly 10,000-kilometre journey of a common crane named Vadla, from her wintering ground in Gujarat to her breeding ground in northern Kazakhstan and back. She perfectly timed her return and landed back on the World Migratory Bird Day, on October 10.
Pankaja Srinivasan
Logs, saris and bricks: A unique gym in Madhya Pradesh’s Gobaron Khurd village
They built a gym in the outdoors using locally available bricks, stones, planks and logs after the COVID19 lockdown interrupted their training
Sachin Tulsa Tripathi
Laungi Manjhi’s claim of digging a canal in Gaya, Bihar earns him support of government officials
Some in the media have raised doubts about the veracity of Manjhi’s claim, but the local administration supports him.
Rohin Kumar
Braving The Storm: Two Odisha villages lead the way in the Indian Ocean region with UNESCO’s ‘Tsunami-Ready’ tag
Disaster-preparedness in India gets a filip as two coastal villages in Odisha become the first to earn UNESCO’s coveted ‘Tsunami-Ready’ tag among the 22 Indian Ocean member states.
Rituparna Palit
Green dream: A headmaster in Satna turns his govt school into an oxygen chamber
Despite initial failure, Alok Tripathi kept planting saplings in the three-and-a-half-acre school campus in Mahadeva village for more than two decades. Today, it has 250 varieties of plants, including medicinal herbs.
Sachin Tulsa Tripathi
Chhattisgarh hopes to end human-wildlife conflict using seedballs of fruit trees
After dispersing a million seedballs last year, the Chhattisgarh forest department has spread 2.5 million more seedballs this monsoon to regenerate the forests. Will this initiative bear fruit?