Bihar

Feared by other rugby-playing nations, 19-year-old Sweety Kumari hails from a village where parents don't let their daughters wear shorts and play sports. #WomenInSports

Besides depositing the plastic in garbage bins kept at the school gate everyday, the students also water the over two thousand saplings they have planted along the road. True education indeed! #LiveGreen

“Daily wage workers are treated like slaves. No one considers them as humans. Even though there were hardships in farming, it is something of your own.”

Mukta and Sanjeeva have been together for more than 34 years, and their love for each other and travel has only grown stronger.

From AC carts that sell fair trade vegetables to tractor driving lessons for village women, Kaushlendra's unique initiatives have turned around the lives of thousands of impoverished farmers.

Over the years, people, especially the young, have been losing faith in elections. They are seen as frivolous or pointless. But not voting doesn’t declare disbelief in the voting system. It only worsens our own condition.

What worked magic is the interpersonal connect that the personnel from the Department of Posts share with families even today, more so in rural areas.

Bihar Bytes is the State’s first tourism start-up that is trying to bust every prejudice surrounding Bihar.

A whiteboard, markers, and a duster for the teachers and a carpet laid on the ground for them to sit on, 15 such study centres across Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and recently, Rajasthan, are providing free-of-cost education for slum and street kids since 2013.

It was the ‘Garden City’ of Bengaluru that inspired the Bhagalpur resident Raja Bose to tread this path a few decades ago.