North East India

A resident of a village in West Jaintia Hills, 56-year-old Kimson Lipon doesn't own a smartphone, but is determined to impart the knowledge he has learnt over the course of 30 years! #FarmersFirst #GrowOrganic

"We had initially expected to crowdsource 300-400 pieces for the Free Bazaar during Diwali but the figure went beyond 2500!" #Respect

Over three decades, 77-year-old Rose Kayathinkara has liberated farmers from the clutches of money lenders and middlemen, and brought prosperity by introducing rubber plantations to this fertile land.

“Our sister was just three years old when she died. We couldn’t afford to pay to a private hospital, and there was no government facility near us. We have built a hospital that seeks to change the concept of private healthcare in Manipur. “

How do you ensure transparency and end pilferage from the distribution of government welfare schemes? These are questions that have long dogged policymakers. But Manipur may have found an effective solution. #Governance

Poor human development, acute infrastructural shortages, lawlessness - these were the challenges facing #IAS officer Keerthi Jalli when she took charge in Jan 2019. Less than a year later, she has scripted a remarkable turnaround! #Governance

He also opened his prayer house to Dalits, allowing them to eat and pray inside the house. For his act, his family suffered social boycott for a decade. But Gandhi heaped praise on it. “Valiant soldiers like Krishna Nath Sharma never care to face any odds,” he said.

As a child, Pradip Kurbah often heard his father express a desire for authentic Khasi cinema. This month the prestigious Busan International Film Festival in South Korea premiered his film 'Iewduh'!

Seeing kids as young as four cooking, cleaning, and venturing into the forest to forage for food is what inspired Christopher Rego to build the first 'Friendship Hostel' in a remote Manipur village.

"In a society where there so much of stigma associated with mental illness, sexual abuse (in this case) and having children out of wedlock, at no point did Huveta ever abandon his sister. For a brother to care for his sister, accept her children and take care of them is truly heart warming."