Manabi Katoch

Women are defying odds and becoming successful in every field today. If we talk about 2017, women in unconventional careers won’t surprise you. But what if we told you that Himachal Pradesh’s first woman transporter and petrol pump owner started her business way back in 1978? We are talking about Nirmal Sethi, who says she is the only woman to become an Indian Oil dealer in north India.

There are ill-effects, some from the British rule,that still linger. An example of one such residue is the discrimination towards Phase Pardhis.

An IT engineer at Cognizant Technologies, Bengaluru, Mahesh works for his company from Monday to Friday and works for his village over the weekend.

An IIT, Kharagpur post graduate and former dean of Centurion University, Odisha, Vishal Singh left his job in 2016 to work fulltime for society through his NGO - Kaivalya Vichar Seva Samiti.

Body Miyan searches for unidentified bodies, shifts them to the morgue, informs the police and if no one claims the body, he even does the last rites.

A third-generation farmer from the village in Naxal-affected Gadchiroli district, Sanjay Gandate took a unique path to supplement his erratic earnings from the rice fields – pearl cultivation.

Jalgaon in Maharashtra is often in the news for droughts and farmer suicides. But amidst this bleak picture, two farmers from here were invited to share their success stories at a seminar organized by Harvard University -- and this was made possible because of a third farmer from the same district.

The alumni of Zilla Parishad High School, Yazali, in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh, have set an example by joining hands and transforming the school.

Breast cancer is currently the most common cancer detected among Indian women. It is also the leading cause of cancer deaths in women all over the world.

A journalist, a writer, a well-known name on the internet! So what made this man leave the spotlight and become a farmer in a remote village? This story is about Girindranath Jha from Chanka village in Bihar’s Purnea district.