Anuradha Parekh

When Pankaj Jain tweeted to the Ministry of Railways asking for assistance to help his paralysed father, he got a response within minutes!

In the video, we can see a CRPF Cobra officer commanding his unit in spite of suffering from bullet wounds. This is the stuff true heroes are made of!

Here's an innovative way that residents in a party district of Hamburg used to deter public urinators from defiling their home turf. Time for a similar solution for India perhaps?

Railway minister Suresh Prabhu has just flagged off India's first CNG powered train. Read about the benefits of CNG and what the eco-friendly move signifies.

While everyone knew of Malala Yousoufzai and many people came of know of Kailash Satyarthi when this year's Nobel Peace Prize winners were declared, how many of us knew that there was another Indian, Jockin Arputham, who was also nominated for the award? Let's learn about this amazing "slum dweller"!

India is a country that lays claims to a third of the world's poor. When faced with such widespread poverty, it is imperative that we try to understand the poor and their motivations. In their fascinating book titled 'Poor Economics', Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo try do just this, and present startling facts and inferences from their many experiments, to think of innovative ways to end poverty. We give our readers a chance to win a copy!

International Women's Day 2013 is on 8th March. Here at The Better India, we are paying tribute to the indomitable spirit of women in our own special way. Starting with the giveaway of a book on one of the most remarkable women of our times, to several stories of women with exceptional grit and determination, who are working to bring about a positive change in their communities. Join us as we celebrate the women around us, and thank them for their infinite sacrifices and courage to hold on and make things better.

Random Hacks of Kindness provides a platform for geeks from all over the world to come together and utilise their combined technological prowess in creating innovative open source solutions for challenges facing humanity, both locally and globally. In India, techies can join in the hackathons held in Bangalore or Pune.

Here's your chance to participate in TBI Book Giveaways and walk away with insightful and interesting titles on India. This week we are giving our readers a chance to win a copy of 'The Man Before The Mahatma: M.K. Gandhi, Attorney at Law' by Charles DiSalvo. Read more for details.