Rural India

Priya Krishnan Das recently visited Kalap, a small gram panchayat located 200 km from Dehradun in the Tons river valley. She was amazed to see how a once-forgotten village has been magically transformed – all thanks to Anand Sankar and Kalap Trust.

Diya Kundu, a 17-year-old student of DPS Vasant Kunj in Delhi has started a teen-run business enterprise meant to help artisans in Golabari village of West Bengal earn their rightful share.

When Shubhranshu realised, to his surprise, that 80% of the students in Barwani had Bluetooth on their phones and were using it actively to share files, he came up with the idea of Bultoo Radio - a radio programme that people receive on their phones via Bluetooth.

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.

About 40 children from Borda and Mahabadia villages located in the outskirts of Bhopal look forward to going to a very special class after school each day – one where they learn a skill to help them earn money for their families.

October 8, 2015 was a day of immense happiness and satisfaction for the residents of Badamba tehsil of Odisha – the day on which people from different backgrounds and fields of work experienced the pure joy of giving at the Badamba Seva Mahotsav.

Servals, a social enterprise from Chennai, is helping villagers in the devastated Sunderbans area use an innovative cooking stove to save on firewood and earn extra income.

What happens when children are given the freedom to explore their creativity and designs things they need on their own? Krishna Thiruvengadam went to a village in Maharashtra to find out.

In many Indian villages, life comes to a standstill as soon as the sun sets - food has to be cooked before it gets dark and children have to finish their studies. Here are some stories from eight villages around the country that were recently electrified.

These 5 young women from rural India have seen their families go through financial difficulties and fight for daily survival. Cathy Pin-Chun Chen recently toured the country and documented how their lives have changed following digital interventions.