Spurring Potential in Rural Women
“Be careful lest the ceiling fan drops on your head. It’s the first one he has installed so I am a little sceptical. Sit directly beneath it at your own risk,” says 32-year-old Nitu Devi referring to her husband and the fan above our heads, as wary…
Trial to Triumph: Story of A Sashakt Woman
As one walks through the dusty lanes of Khureri village in Gwalior, towards the house of 26-year-old Anuradha Prajapati, one can’t help but notice the bold, black letters crudely written over the front-facing, bare-brick wall. ‘This house is for…
Ushering in A Wave of Transformation
Just a day before we met Archana at her house in Sanwadi village in Sheopur district of MP, her village had witnessed a spectacle of an event that the village residents were still talking about amidst peals of laughter. “Yesterday, the men of our…
A Small Start to A Big Dream
Nearly 17 years ago, when Pushpa Saini moved to Mahendragarh, Haryana from her native Mandawar in Rajasthan, she carried in her heart all the usual hopes and dreams that a newly-wed in rural India nurtures. Today, as we sit in her tiny but copious…
A Beacon of Hope for Homeless People - Roop Chand
Roop Chand A beacon of hope for homeless people Born in a small town in Barabanki district, Uttar Pradesh, Roop Chand moved to Delhi at the young age of 20. A victim of inter-generational homelessness, Roop Chand spent the next 15 years of his life…
Sashakt: Creating Choices, Emboldening Voices
These days, a repetitive “kuk kuk kuk” sound mostly welcomes the visitors as they enter Rukmini Bai’s gracefully minimal, earth-made house in Sanwadi village of Sheopur district in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. One may also enter the…
Children, planet and green cover!
Children, planet and green cover! Climate change mitigation together with the students Anjali, a second year Necessary Teacher Training Programme (NeTT) student at District Institute of Education and Training (D.I.E.T.) Beeswa Meel, Sonepat is a…
Axshya Mitras: The indispensable human touch
As someone who repaired dysfunctional sound systems, 25-year-old Sarfaraz* has worked with speakers and amplifiers for as long as he can remember. Today, as we enter his two-room house through one of the ubiquitous narrow by-lanes of Shahdara…
Of A Teacher and An Entrepreneur
It is around four in the afternoon and a group of young students hastily rush into 26-year-old Pooja Kaushik’s house in Nayagaon area of Faridabad, Haryana. A small, colourfully decorated chart paper outside the house proclaims that tuition classes…
Ilam Mottukal: Helping girl students inch closer to their dreams
Subha Lakshmi is a 3rd standard student in Panchayat Union Middle School, P.M. Thevar Colony, Tuticorin. She is the eldest of the four siblings, with two younger brothers and a newborn baby sister. Subha’s parents work as daily wage laborers in a…
