rural education India

Narinder Singh spent 19 years transforming a 3-room, 174-student school in Punjab into a thriving campus of 800 children — now honoured with a National Teachers’ Award.

Discover how Chinuu Kwatra’s beach cleanup movement evolved into India’s first beach waste recovery facility — giving ocean plastic a new purpose.

When her children grew up and moved on, Beena Kalathiya turned her empty afternoons into something extraordinary — a space where elderly women, long forgotten by formal education, could finally learn to read and write.

Explore how mobile libraries are changing access to books in India. From horseback in Uttarakhand to the Bookworm Bus in Delhi, these mobile libraries are bringing stories to all.

Struggling with culture shock in big cities, five friends built Nanakmatta Public School in Uttarakhand — replacing rote learning with curiosity through films, debate, and real-world exposure.