Bihar

On Ram Navami, mosques in Gaya offered water to devotees during the processions in the scorching heat, proving that Gaya, a city steeped in heritage and a centre for multiple religions, is one of India's greatest examples of communal harmony.

While the ban of alcohol in Bihar and the boost of tetra pak alcohol sales in Andhra Pradesh might seem contradictory, they're in fact aimed at one goal: reducing consumption of illicit liquor.

Every year, in the remote Sujata village located in Bihar, the Niranjana Public Welfare School organizes the Wall Art festival. Artists from India and Japan spend three weeks in the village producing art using the walls of the school’s building as canvas.

Sweta Singh is a homemaker who nurtured the dream of teaching kids in Chhapra, her hometown in Bihar, since she was child. But there weren’t many ways for her to do so as she was living 900 km away from Chhapra after her marriage. This is how she finally got a chance to start doing what she always wanted to do.

People feel that filing an FIR is a tedious process. But it's a lot easier now.

Lisa Heydlauff started off by telling children stories on entrepreneurial skills. And now, she’s funding them.

When a three-month-old child fell ill while travelling by a train, railway authorities took every possible step to ensure that she receives adequate medical assistance. And the train was not allowed to proceed until she showed signs of recovery.

Belonging to marginalised communities in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, these women are breaking many barriers and stereotypes on a daily basis. They work with India’s first newspaper run entirely by women, and are successfully taking grassroots journalism to a whole new level.

Through their foundation, Ganga Kumar, an IAS officer, and his wife Sneha Routray, an architect, are helping rural Indians fight cancer through better awareness and diagnosis.

DM Rahul Kumar of Gopalganj in Bihar ate lunch with the students of a government school to dispel a "bad omen" superstition against a widowed cook.