Rajasthan

Who says that real life can never match up to epic stories told on celluloid?

An NID graduate, Satya Rajpurohit is the man behind Indian Type Foundry, a design firm redefining typography in Indian languages.

Initiated by Piramal Foundation for Educational Leadership, Project Kaleidoscope aims at digitising the classrooms in 45 government schools in Taranagar, Rajasthan.

The villages in the desert of Rajasthan are notorious for child brides, but groups of girls are now banding together to defy and upturn a long-held tradition to assure a new and better future for themselves. Tarun Kanti Bose takes a closer look.

Kamlesh Regar and his family decided to rope in the help of the police when they allegedly received threats for breaking from a casteist tradition. And the cops went all out to ensure a happy ending.

Breaking away from the tradition of the groom leading the baraat, young bride Jiya Sharma decided to shake things up a little!

Sadri village in Rajasthan’s Rajsamand district had strong caste divides in its community, till one event brought women together.

Ashwani Parashar, an MBBS student from Dholpur, is trying to bring to light the plight of the remote village of Rajghat in the hope of making way for development.

Delhi-based NGO Child Heart Foundation is trying to make critical medical care available to underprivileged children with congenital heart disease.

The quest to make India open-defecation-free continues. An organisation is contributing to the drive by offering a unique and sustainable solution in Rajasthan’s villages — EcoSan toilets.