TBI Reader

Nalin Rai celebrates World Laughter Day by recalling the iconic individuals, movies and television serials in Hindi which took comedy to new levels along the ages. From Kishore Kumar's unique style to Jaane Bhi Do yaar's amazing storyline, here are seven icons of Bollywood who never fail to make us laugh.

If you thought just providing hearing aids to the hearing impaired could help them hear, you thought wrong. So did Elita Almeida until she met this Kolkata-based NGO, which seems to have cracked the right model to deal with deafness in an effective way.

Jaco Swanepoel came to India seven months ago. He has collected some of the finest memories of his life here and has many reasons to love the country unconditionally. Here's the journey of this South African in his own words.

Basuki Nandan forgot to collect change of Rs. 420 from a bus conductor in Bengaluru. Given the reputation of bus conductors and the advise of everyone around him, he did not have much hope of ever getting it back. Here's what followed.

Our reader Niharika Jadeja shares why she believes that this is an amazing period for Badminton in India, and her hopes for the future.

A team of girls from Women’s Christian College, Chennai conducts a hair donation drive annually to collect hair that can be used to make natural wigs for cancer patients of the globally-renowned Adyar Cancer Institute. Read on to know more about these wonder women!

Suzette Jordan left this world half way through her journey to getting justice. On the final hearing of her case today, our reader Manabi Katoch thinks this is a letter that Suzette would have written to us after her death.

A regular man who irons clothes for a living could not contain his happiness when his 3 year old daughter called him Papa. Read along to know why it was so special.

This man turned down a lucrative bank job to dedicate his life to preserving the ancient art form of Yakshagana string puppetry. TBI reader Sharath Ahuja meets Bhaskar Kamath and tells us how he is taking this art to global platforms.

Did you think Indian villages are unclean and lack proper sanitation? Here is a village in Maharashtra which will change your perception forever. With clean roads, good sanitation and exemplary waste management, the village is a perfect example of how a collaborative effort by a community can change things for good.