Activism

Aryan Pasha describes his transition from law to a life of activism, and the odds he overcame to become India’s first trans man bodybuilder.

Dev Pratap, who ran away from home as a child, started Voice of Slum NGO in 2016. He now feeds over 1,000 people in the Gwalior slums every day.

Yogita Bhayana once had a glamorous career in aviation, but eventually quit her job to take up activism. After Nirbhaya’s case, she started PARI, an organisation that works to rehabilitate rape victims and get them the justice they need.

Neehaari Mandali from Hyderabad is a burn survivor who runs the Burn Survivor Mission Saviour Trust, which offers free plastic surgeries to burn victims across Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana.

Bela Mitra, also known as Bela Bose, was born in Kodalia in British-ruled India and grew up with a singular goal of freeing her country.

Disability rights activist and the executive director of National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People, Arman Ali was born with cerebral palsy but that didn't deter him from speaking up against discrimination.

On World Fisheries Day, we bring you a story of a part-time fisherwoman who teaches prostitutes the practice of safe sex, while also fulfilling a few dreams of her own.

“When people have to choose between dying of disease or starvation, they choose the former. There is no other option for us, even if it means exposing ourselves.”

From pot-bellied malnourished kids to sad faces of mothers hiding their babies in their skeletal embrace, his pen captured the true tragedy of the Bengal famine. #history #ForgottenHeroes

"If accessibility and reasonable accommodation are missing, people with disabilities cannot exercise their rights, which leads to discrimination,” she says.