Student

When the door to the bathroom was broken, they found the class 10 student unconscious, with one side of her body burnt from the hot water.

Dr Mani, who has spent almost four decades in the teaching profession, says, “I retire next year in October and in an attempt to do something meaningful at the time of my retirement I toyed with the idea of setting up a crockery bank in college.”

“What motivated me to begin this organisation was the widespread lack of understanding about basic concepts like personal hygiene and first aid responses amongst villagers. To improve the situation, I started Shri Sahayataa which provided villagers with a personalised primary healthcare kit and education about the essential concepts such as first aid and hygiene etc,” shares Rohan.

Having attempted the ISRO examination twice before, Ashish has a fair understanding of what worked and here he shares tips on what aspirants could consider doing while preparing and when appearing for this competitive examination.

“I wish I did not have to start this foundation under such circumstances, but then a majority of organisations stem from some personal loss and are invariably in memory of someone. Instead of wallowing in pain, my husband and I decided just two months after Arundhati’s death to start the foundation.”

“Did you know that the conventional red clay bricks can be the cause of soil erosion? Our Wricks can help solve it. If we happen to sell 10 lakh of those, it will be able to recycle 2,50,000 kg of waste materials!”

“The machine crushes the glass bottles into sand within seconds and converts it into a valuable by-product. It also reduces its volume by almost 90 per cent.

59-year-old SreeRam started learning this form of self-defence when he was 45, and three years later, started his own Krav Maga academy in Chennai.

Haimanti has been on a mission to equip them with necessary skills so she can enrol them in a regular school under the Right to Education act.

"At that time, the hostel fee was only Rs 10 for a month—this included everything from stay, food to toothpaste, soap and hair oil! But even that meagre amount proved to be too expensive for us, and I almost came close to quitting my studies."