To encourage younger students to pursue music, besides the conventional STEM subjects, students in Leh made innovative instruments out of waste to share the joy of music. The project won the Grand Prize at the ‘I CAN Awards 2015’ organised by Design for Change.
Kids in the village of Shara, one of the poorest and most inhospitable places in Ladakh, had never attended nursery school. But one policeman changed that.
In a region where people mainly live by keeping herds of cattle, an apex predator like the snow leopard is a dreaded animal. The tale of this fear’s transformation into a spirit of co-existence is remarkable.
Timothy Hefflinger narrates his experience developing an eco-tourism homestay program in Leh as part of the William J. Clinton Fellowship for Service in India.
With his documentary film Fighting on Ice, Mithun L Bajaj aims to spread awareness about the Winter Olympic sport and highlight the men and women playing the game.
He was not expected to fight the war and didn't even have enough ammunition to do so, but this unsung hero and his scouting unit notched up the first crucial win for the Indian Army in the Kargil conflict.