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Jagriti Agro Tech: Bringing Organic Produce Directly To Consumers

I met Ashmeet Kapoor a year ago, on a one-of-its-kind train journey called the Jagriti Yatra. It was an 18-day long journey of entrepreneurship that took young, bright potential leaders of India across the length and breadth of this nation to discover grassroots enterprises in a whole new way. Back then, who knew that this [...]

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Homeless Kids Find ‘Mothers’ And A New Life

November 21, 2011 1 Comment

Faridabad (Women’s Feature Service) Twenty-one years ago Savita Mohanty had chanced upon a job ad in a newspaper. The work appeared to be emotionally demanding but she decided to send in her CV anyway. Today, she is a ‘mother’ to 11 orphaned and abandoned children between the ages of eight and 13. Her address: Jeevan [...]

A legend that keeps people from smoking

November 2, 2011 No Comment

Shankarpura, a tiny hamlet in India’s northern state of Haryana, has a pleasant surprise in store. In a country that records the highest number of oral cancer cases, Shankarpura boasts of being a non-smoking haven. And interestingly, what keeps villagers from lighting up is a local legend. A four-hour drive from the state capital of [...]

From Fields to a BPO in just Six Months

March 25, 2011 3 Comments

Tikli, Haryana (Women’s Feature Service) Just six months ago, Puja, 18, and Bimla Devi, 35, spent their day cooking meals, tending to cattle and working in the field – the everyday work of village women across Haryana. Never in their wildest dreams had they imagined that they could one day be sitting in an office [...]

Rose Computer Academy

February 7, 2010 4 Comments

Amit Kataria comes from a humble background. Brought up in Choma village, Gurgaon, Haryana by his father, a farmer and mother, a housewife, he always dreamt of making a change in the society. Never having let his walking disability come in the way of his dreams, today he has successfully transformed the lives of many [...]