PGIMER

The director of PGIMER Chandigarh, Dr Jagat Ram grew up in a small village in Himachal Pradesh and went on to win the Padma Shri for his trailblazing work in the world of cataract surgery.

"For the last 20 years. I've seen her serving the poor. She runs a free ambulance, gives them food & medicines, and conducts their final rites, spending money from her own pocket. We call her 'Iron Lady' because she's doing such a tough job,” says Dr Vipin Kaushal of PGIMER, Chandigarh. #Respect

"Be it hard-hitting facts about dowry or crimes against women, the message can be lucidly conveyed through these puppets.”

Haryana's crackdown on the scourge of female foeticide has seen its sex ratio rise from 830 to 928. We decode the efforts that have borne this fruit.