Senior Citizen

Defying the notion that becoming an Instagram influencer is a thing for young blood, Mr Yeshpal Verma and Mrs Shanta Verma are slaying it with their trending videos.

S Devaki decided to utilise the spare time she had during the lockdown to recreate beautiful scenes from Indian mythological tales using old Barbie dolls.

Thanks to her viral workout videos alongside her grandson Chirag Chordia, Chennai's 82-year-old Kiran Bai has become a fitness star on Instagram. Find out how and why this inspiring senior citizen decided to give deadlifts and squats a go!

Yashpal Singh and Shanta Verma, residents of Haryana, are recent additions to the Instagram influencer gang. And they have their Gen Z granddaughter, Jonita, to thank for their 15,000 subscribers and brand endorsement deals.

Kolkata-based Manju Devi Poddar was nudged by her granddaughter, Yashi Chowdhary, to start her own homemade food venture. Today, her tasty bhujia, Nariyal Chakki and Mava ki Parwal mithai is a hit all over the city, with some deliveries reaching Hong Kong and the USA.

As per an announcement made by Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar, Phase-2 of the COVID-19 vaccination drive is set to be rolled out from 1 March. Find out if you’re eligible here.

When Chennai-based Tanvi Arvind saw how her grandparents were struggling to send text messages through their smartphones, she took it upon herself to teach them the basics. This inspired her venture, TechEdEn, which has since helped 93 senior citizens learn how to navigate technology.

A school dropout from Thalassery in Kerala, Njattyela Sreedharan spent 25 years writing a unique dictionary with four Dravidian languages — Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, and Telugu.

Started by Pushpa Kansil, ‘Vedic Blends’ is a bootstrapped startup focussed on creating plant-based functional herbal blends and concoctions.

At 105, there is nothing that Papammal, a resident of Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, does not do by herself. That includes working on her 2.5 acre organic farm.