Shreya Pareek

Andrea Thumshirn was a national level hockey player in Germany. She came to India in 2009 and since then has been training rural Rajasthan kids in hockey. She is also sponsoring their education and teaching them English. In fact, she took five of her students all the way to Germany to train!

Unfortunately, festivities and filth go hand in hand these days. But N.S. Ramakanth is on a mission to ensure that people celebrate festivals more responsibly and do not contaminate their environment in the process. He has been fighting for a cleaner Bengaluru for several years and recently executed a successful cleanliness drive after the Ganesha festival.

Bengaluru based Samarthanam Trust for Disabled has 5,000 audio books to help students with disabilities achieve their educational goals. More are being added every day by an army of volunteers because the goal of the founder, Mahantesh, is to have the entire university syllabus available in audio format.

Sandeep Kumar was just seven when doctors gave him an expired penicillin injection. It left him in a coma for a year followed by paralysis in the lower half of his body. Today, this 24-year-old man, who is the first paraplegic to be employed by the aviation industry, glides around on a wheelchair at Delhi airport – helping other people with disabilities.

An interesting technology is bridging the education gap in slums and in rural India. Through computer tablets and CLassCloud technology, children get access to quality education even in locations where electricity and network connectivity are an issue.

A bunch of college kids in Jamshedpur, with nothing more than compassion and a determination to make a difference in their hearts, started teaching underprivileged kids in 2007. Today, their effort has grown into a full-scale organization called Sankalp that reaches out to over 650 children in three states of India.

Gopi Shankar does not fit in any prescribed male or female gender. Refusing to be categorized as “he” or “she,” Gopi asked us to use the gender neutral pronoun “ze.” And ze is indeed a free soul who is helping hundreds of people from the LGBTQIA community through an organization ze set up called Srishti Madurai.

They were just a group of 15 in Lucknow in 2011. Now they are a force of 8,500 around the country. The world-famous Red Brigade, which addresses the issue of sexual violence in India, is the brainchild of gutsy Usha Vishwakarma, a survivor of attempted rape herself.

When Padmavati, a home guard, saw many dangerous potholes on a highway in Mangaluru, she decided to take matters into her own hands.

Four Indian films have been shortlisted to compete for the Fellini award given by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Here's all you need to know about them.