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On World Polio Day, we celebrate the lives of five lesser-known Indians whose resilience should inspire us all.

Meet eight amazing Indians who found success, and started living their dreams after 60. From building model rockets for ISRO to winning gold medals in athletics, here are their stories.

Born with an ankle impairment, Suhas Yathiraj cleared the UPSC CSE in his first attempt. Later, badminton changed his life. Watch how he manages his training and work while preparing for the Paris Paralympics.

There is no age for creating change. Meet 8 Indian teenagers building a better, sustainable and more inclusive world with their amazing innovations.

Lilyma Khan is the head chef at Dear Donna in Delhi. She recalls the struggle she faced to get here, how her love for cooking came to be, and how she forged past all the obstacles that life threw her way.

Thanks to headmaster Veeranna Madiwalar, the Nidagundi Ambedkar School in Karnataka has transformed from barren and dilapidated to an institution replete with facilities, increasing school enrollment and brightening the village’s future in the process.

Mumbai resident Nilesh B Mohite’s story is something straight out of a storybook — he shares how art got him through the biggest hardships, and how an encounter with Ratan Tata changed his life for good.

With her granddaughter Sana, 90-year-old Kanak Saxena cooks and feeds 120 dogs every day in Ghaziabad, despite her Osteoporosis, fractures, and major surgeries.

Taking inspiration from Maharshi Karve, Jameendar Babasaheb Keshav Narayanrao Deshmukh set up the Sanskriti Samvardhan Mandal (SSM), to start the first-ever residential school in Sagroli, Maharashtra committed to empowering girls through education

Surendar Kaur, a resident of Haryana, works with NGO SAATHII, and has so far helped around 200 pregnant women living with HIV gain access to healthcare, timely medication, counselling and more.