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Uday Bhatia’s Rs 250 Bulb Keeps 10000+ Rural Homes Bright During Power Cuts

Uday Bhatia’s Rs 250 Bulb Keeps 10000+ Rural Homes Bright During Power Cuts

In villages across Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and beyond, evenings no longer plunge families into darkness during power cuts. Thanks to a simple yet transformative invention by Uday Bhatia, a Class 12 student, over 10,000 households now access reliable light during outages. Uday’s Rs 250 inverter bulb offers eight to 10 hours of backup — a […]

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How Ex-Supreme Court Lawyer Meenakshi Built a Women-Led Café in Delhi

How Ex-Supreme Court Lawyer Meenakshi Built a Women-Led Café in Delhi

For years, Meenakshi Kumar walked the imposing corridors of the Supreme Court of India, dressed in black robes, building arguments and assisting her father, also a lawyer, in high-stakes legal cases. As a criminal lawyer, she thrived in the profession. Yet, somewhere between case files and hearing dates, a quiet longing stirred — one that

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Asian Heart Institute’s Dr Ramakanta Panda on Heart Health, De-Stressing & Heart Hacks

Asian Heart Institute’s Dr Ramakanta Panda on Heart Health, De-Stressing & Heart Hacks

He watched it beat; its choreography was perfect. A delicate dance that dictated life and death.  As a third-year medical student, Dr Ramakanta Panda, the Chairman of Mumbai’s Asian Heart Institute — a post he has held for the last decade — stood over a live beating heart. It was his first time at an

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Meet Mittal Patel, Who Skipped Her IAS Dreams to Uplift India’s “Criminal” Tribes

Meet Mittal Patel, Who Skipped Her IAS Dreams to Uplift India’s “Criminal” Tribes

In Gujarat’s dusty villages, lakhs of nomadic and denotified tribes lived without rights or recognition — invisible citizens once branded as “criminals” under colonial law. That began to change when Mittal Patel, a former IAS aspirant turned social activist, founded Vicharta Samuday Samarthan Manch (VSSM) in 2006. Nearly two decades on, her organisation has secured

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