Unsung Heroes

He quit a well-paying corporate job to build a ProtoVillage that will exemplify abundance for the rest of the country. This is the story of Kalyan Akkipeddi.

Meet Gadadhar Mandal, a 53-year-old taxi driver in Mumbai who is known and respected for his honesty. His regular passengers know him as the person who has returned numerous mobile phones to people who leave theirs in his cab.

Ganesh gathered money for the construction by going door-to-door in the village. Also, forty farmers from the village contributed what they could and Ganesh managed to get about Rs. 20,000.

Dhaval Khatri lost both his hands at the age of 14 and his school asked him to leave. But no such obstacle could stop him from continuing his education, writing all his exams himself, playing guitar and finally – painting.

Meet Jas Uppal, a British lawyer fighting to save Indian citizens implicated in wrongful legal cases abroad and without the resources to bring themselves safely home. She started the ‘Free Sarabjit Singh’ campaign and has since then rescued several migrant workers who were treated mercilessly in Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia – without charging them a single penny.

From a time when he could not succeed in a competitive exam because of the lack of money to afford proper guidance, to today when he is guiding students free of cost, in 13 centres all over Gujarat – this is his story:

Almost 1,400 traffickers have had cases filed against them and many are rotting in jail, thanks to Ajeet Singh who has been waging a war to free minor girls from their clutches. Read how he broke the complex system of sexual exploitation in Varanasi.

Meet Abdul Khader, whose thoughts and ideas, and auto rickshaw, will leave you amazed!

Pallium India offers palliative care services free of cost to the needy, giving thousands a better quality of life – and death.

New to Delhi, Syed Manzer Imam was trying to find his way around the city when he came across Dilbagh, a Good Samaritan who helps strangers at Rajeev Chowk. This is his story.