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"Taking care of one’s mental health is the first step to self-care," say counsellors and therapists who are not stopping for the pandemic and providing online sessions all across the country, for free.

Also, what about places where there is no internet? Despite a large base of internet users, the internet penetration rate in the country stands at just nearly 50% in 2020.

"Every year, once the mangoes in our orchard started ripening, they faced recurrent attacks from pests, squirrels, birds and even monkeys."

“How do I find humour through so much adversity? What choice do I have? What else am I going to do? You either ride the tide or get washed away. I don’t want to be washed away because I tried to wash away myself once. I don’t want to do it again.”

Seeing the struggle that the students are going through amidst the lockdown, a retired school teacher donated his pension money to buy 18 digital tablets for underprivileged students!

IPS Arif Shaikh shows how a small intervention can make a difference in the lives of those suffering from abuse at home amid the lockdown.

The e-scooter will be sanitised in front of you and you can charge it within three hours at home. Plus you save money on petrol.

The 47-year-old Additional Commissioner of Income Tax of Mumbai is a Shaurya Chakra awardee, for his bravery in an encounter with terrorists along the LoC in 2017.

“We all pray he finds the strength to deal with the most unfortunate loss of a parent. I know how it feels...Our love and support is with you baby,” says Shah Rukh Khan, after he saw the heart-wrenching video of a toddler waking his dead mother on a Bihar railway station.

India: Bestselling author Rashmi Bansal writes a fictional story on a grape farmer during the COVID-19-induced lockdown, inspired by a TBI story.