Education

Mumbai's Aryan Chaudhry and Chennai's Arnav Bajaj founded Finance4teens to be India's first financial literacy platform for teenagers that teaches lessons rarely taught in schools.

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, or Begum Rokeya, fought grave opposition and criticism to build India’s first school for Muslim girls. She goes down in history as being key in launching Bengal’s feminist revolution.

Bengaluru couple V Mani and Saroji sacrificed many luxuries to build a home for children of convicts, whose futures would otherwise look uncertain. Here’s how their NGO SOCARE continues to make a difference even after the couple has gone.

Battling polio that left him with 70 per cent locomotive disability and in a wheelchair, Ajay Gupta strived to bring quality education to play schools in tier II and tier III cities. Here’s how he is accomplishing his mission.

Siva Swamy and Mahalakshmi, a retired couple in Coimbatore’s Pachapalayam, run Kalvi Thunai – a free education centre for underprivileged children.

Meet Prafulla Shashikant, a man from Beed, Maharashtra, who has worked tirelessly to ensure quality education to lakhs of children through his organisation VOPA.

Kashmiri engineer Shoaib Dar started Pi Jam Foundation to provide free computer education to rural children and transform them into future-ready innovators.

From the CBSE Class 10 topper who was abandoned by her father to the NEET topper who started working as an agricultural labourer from the age of 13, here are 10 incredible stories of inspiring Indians.

Inspired by his wife’s social work, former IAS officer Arun Kumar gives free UPSC coaching to aspirants on the ghats of the Ganga in Patna.

Shilpa and Amit Singhal quit their US jobs to start Sitare Foundation, which helps children from low-income households access quality education in private schools, and find opportunities to study abroad.