Changemakers

Three decades on, Navratri still belongs to Falguni Pathak. From a Navy ship stage to global fame, her voice and spirit continue to define India’s festive season.

Mahi Chandra Miri’s forgotten fight in the 1900s laid the foundation for Kaziranga National Park and its success story in conservation.

A unique initiative under Project Chetna is using QR code lockets to reunite missing children and vulnerable adults, including those with Alzheimer’s.

World Bamboo Day: Meet Dr Lal Singh, the CSIR scientist using bamboo to revive fly ash–polluted lands, restore water, and transform livelihoods in Maharashtra villages.

Mocked as ‘Vela’, Sarbjeet Singh Bobby turned idle hours into service — donating blood, feeding patients, ferrying the dead & raising Rs 1 crore for flood-hit Himachal.

The men of the Sundarbans brave tiger attacks and snake-infested waters to gather honey, often sacrificing their lives for their livelihoods.

Raised by two tribal women who struggled to make ends meet, Satendrasingh Lilhare turned Bastar’s forest produce into a Rs 1 crore marketplace, empowering 1,500 women.

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.

In 2007, Safeena Husain began with 50 Rajasthan villages. Today, Educate Girls has enrolled 1.4M girls in 30,000 villages and is the first Indian NGO to win Magsaysay.

Sindhutai’s desire to ensure that no child suffered from a lack of love was born out of her story of being abandoned and left to die when she was pregnant. She became a mother to thousands of orphans.