Adoption

Cat Cafe Studio in Mumbai: Since 2010, Mriidu Khosla's inspiring efforts have helped provide medical aid to over 10,000 stray cats in the city. Here's how it started.

Mechanical engineer Dhananjay Hegde from Karnataka has conceived a bag made from newspaper that uses unique stitching techniques and corn powder and can carry damp items and other things weighing up to 10 kilos

Skilled, sturdy and well adapted to India’s tropical climate, these desi doggos are much easier to maintain than exotic breeds.

"Shutting down of restaurants and offices has completely stopped leftovers being discarded in garbage bins — a major source of food for strays. I could not bear to see them suffer and die. I had to help them, no matter what."

“Their lives are not condemned anymore. We have had once neglected horses that till 2009 were being euthanized by the police department. Now they live a full life and retire in care and love, with us.”

“I want my daughter to know that having a single parent does not mean that her family is incomplete. I want her to stand up against all the mocking, and proudly declare that she was raised by a single mother.”

The Ballygunge resident had already broken the glass ceiling and set a precedent for the differently-abled community by earning her MA degree and entering wedlock.

Smriti an electrical engineer, who worked for the Wikimedia Foundation in Europe, returned to India in 2014. She quit her full-time job last year to dedicate her life to the cause of adoption.

In a country where state and central governments have been continuously fighting against female foeticide and where one regularly reads stories about the abandonment of girl children, it is heartening to see that there is a ray of hope too.

‘I’ll give you your freedom. But if you want to stay with me, I’ll leave no stone unturned to take you home with me to France. You really are my dog.’