positive stories

Tanishq Abraham has three degrees to his name and has just been offered admission into two colleges in the University of California. He hopes to get his MD by the age of 18.

For more than a decade, this man and his wife have been serving free home-made food to more than 400 poor relatives of patients at VS Hospital in Ahmedabad.

Sunil Yadav, a sweeper with the BMC, recently completed his MPhil from TISS. He now wants to do a PhD to understand the marginalisation of sweepers in India

Over letters, Japanese national Shuzo Matsunga and S M Muthu developed a close friendship. In 2007, this friendship led to the Japanese Govt issuing commemorative stamps in honour of Muthu.

Many times this year, different people and incidents made Indians proud of being a part of this country. Here are the 22 best ones.