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When she joined Swades, a local Mumbai NGO, little did she know that a few months later she would use the English language to change the lives of the residents of a nearby village. This is the hugely inspiring story of Diya Shah, a high school student with a heart of gold.

These children from Nalanda Way Foundation, an NGO that works with underprivileged children across the states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Bihar, sang songs composed by A R Rahman, Ilayaraja and Michael Jackson.

As PM Narendra Modi launches the #BetiBachaoBetiPadhao Yojna, we recollect some of the most powerful women characters from Indian cinema who showed what it was that educated and liberated women could achieve. As a medium with the strongest influence on the Indian psyche, we explore through these portrayals how cinema has played an important role in promoting the empowerment of the girl child through the years.

There are some movies which leave an impact on society. Some actually manage to change a couple of lives while some have helped to speed up long pending justice, some fill you with emotional turmoil and some give your life a complete new direction. Here is a list of 20 such movies.

How a group of Engineering students from Vellore Institute of Technology have come together (despite their hectic academic schedules) to start helping the communities around them in small baby steps - conducting medical camps in schools, teaching children about dental health, teaching parents about sanitation, etc.