Rajasthan

Doosra Dashak, which literally means ‘second decade’, has been playing a stellar role in providing the right guidance, educational inputs, and skills to adolescents to make their lives more engaging and fulfilling.

One of those rare government officers who combined a innovative mind with the ability to push new ideas through a slow-moving system, IAS Naresh Gangwar has not just made a tangible positive difference in the state's education system, he has also demonstrated the power of public school reform as the central driver of student outcomes and equality.

Ilse Köhler-Rollefson, a German veterinarian who arrived in Rajasthan in 1990 for her PhD, has dedicated her life to the camels and the nomadic camel people of Rajasthan. Her social enterprise, Camel Charisma, has helped revive the unique camel culture of the region as well as the fortunes of the dwindling Raika community.

Folk medicine and Ayurveda can often provide remedies that offer almost miraculous results. A doctor in Rajasthan stumbled upon one such remedy, and has used it to change the lives of women in villages.

Dhapara village, located in the remote district of Bhilwara, Rajasthan, is infamous for its long history of rampant alcoholism. The elders and even children of the village are drunk almost every evening.

Women in India are often reluctant to approach the police forces of the country, because of a certain negative and unhelpful image. Udaipur’s new all-woman patrol squad hopes to remedy that sorry state of affairs.

Unlike 2016, where most of the festivals of India fell on weekends, 2017 has quite a number of holidays falling on Mondays – 7 of the holidays in 2017 are on Mondays, 6 are on Saturdays, 5 on Fridays and behold, only 2 on Sundays! So, if you love the delicious respite a long weekend brings to your packed calendar, this is definitely the right time to start planning the epic adventures you are going to have next year.

If your travel plans this winter coincide with any of these 7 amazing festivals, you’re in for a treat.

IAS officers Ashish Vashisht and Saloni Sadana got married at the Additional District Magistrate’s (ADM) office in Madhya Pradesh by spending just Rs 500!

The NGO started in 2014 by a student of Lady Shri Ram College to help youth volunteer has launched a crowdfunding campaign to fund health camps in Soda village, Rajasthan.