Girl Child

The school was founded in 2016, by Ashita and Anish Nath, a couple from Lucknow, whose journey towards this phenomenal decision is even more unusual.

Haryana's crackdown on the scourge of female foeticide has seen its sex ratio rise from 830 to 928. We decode the efforts that have borne this fruit.

Inspired by a true story about a girl with Cerebral Palsy, Chennai-born director Priya Ramasubban shares her film's extraordinary journey with The Better India.

Her incredible fortitude to write the exams after suffering such trauma should be saluted.

In a country where state and central governments have been continuously fighting against female foeticide and where one regularly reads stories about the abandonment of girl children, it is heartening to see that there is a ray of hope too.

Amruta’s story is one among thousands of girls all over the country who have been given a chance to chase their dreams.

In January 2017, the administration launched ‘Udaan’ – a campaign to ensure that all girls in the district are enrolled in schools by June 2018.

A month after this gruesome act, the Sharma family founded an organisation, Shaheed Sushil Kumar Sharma Foundation, in their hometown, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, in his memory.

She is being considered a real life hero and her story is a sharp retort to all those who consider daughters to be inferior to sons.

India’s first and only startup committed to the overall development of young girls through sport and group therapy.