Kerala

“He kicked me in the stomach and I started bleeding profusely. At 5 weeks, I lost my baby. At that moment I was dead inside. I decided I needed to live again, this time for myself.”

From 24×7 control rooms and state-wide surveillance to making counselling calls to every person placed in isolation, Kerala has mobilised more than 40,000 health officials to deal with the #CoronavirusOutbreak.

Nikesh and Sonu announced their marriage publicly after the Supreme Court struck down section 377 of the Indian Penal Code and decriminalised the LGBTQ community in September 2018

“The problem was that the grow bags that I used started decaying in just a few months. I wanted to create something that could last for years," explains Eyo, a fourth-generation farmer.

Journeys of people like Joseph Louis prove that knowledge can be acquired at any time and that there is no age to start your passion.

“From jobs that require a class 7 qualification to the sub-inspector level examinations, I was able to crack them all," says Mansoor Ali.

From just 197 students, today this primary school has almost 700 students and a farm of their own and there's no turning back for this primary school in Alappuzha.

The concept that food is medicine and the fact that many people don’t follow a healthy diet is what drives the old lady to go an extra mile at this age.

"The needy and poor should not come to us begging. As everyone’s responsibility, we must introduce a mechanism where they can access food for free.”

"My mother was my biggest cheerleader and she would always encourage me to make each painting better than the previous one."