rural india

Seeing underprivileged students hunched up over their notebooks, Eshan Sadasivan, knew that they were damaging their eyes as well as their spine. So the IIT alumnus came up with a simple and inexpensive solution to this problem!

This retired Army man has helped identify over 200 grassroots innovators behind brilliant utilitarian devices that can help solve day-to-day issues. India definitely needs more mentors like him!

"Things that we take for granted are often the most crucial. A desk, chair or a blackboard might sound to be the most basic requirement in a school and yet there are hundreds of schools in rural India that are devoid of them. This was our attempt to break that bubble and bring forth a sustainable solution."

“Together we wanted to use our knowledge for something that mattered and had a larger impact.”

Up-close with Shivdevi, a seasoned Khabar Lahariya reporter, and her fascinating, inspiring journey from a neo-literate Dalit woman to a journalist on the beat, atop her Scooty.

From solar-powered freezers for farmers to zero-electricity water purifiers, these inventions have the potential to dramatically impact the way people live in villages. #Innovation #RuralIndia #ImpactThatMatters

Recently, I went on a field trip to Tumakuru with the SELCO foundation, an NGO which is bringing solar energy to the various rural corners of India. Here's what I learnt.

On 31 July 1995, erstwhile Union Telecom Minister Sukh Ram and then Chief Minister of West Bengal Jyoti Basu made the first call to each other on a hand-held phone.

Here are some brilliant heroes who have won the awards in this category in the past three years:

“It took him two days to dig the pits, and afterwards he fell ill. Now, we have decided to complete the construction within a week."