IN PHOTOS: Every Lane, Every Corner of Mumbai Tells a Different Story
The city that never sleeps, Mumbai, is truly a place which harbours a million dreams. Every lane, every corner, every building has a different story to tell. Since ages, the city has been capturing the...
View ArticleIn PHOTOS: Meet India’s 4am Heroes Who Are Hard at Work So You Wake up at...
Ever wondered what it takes to deliver your newspaper or milk packet at your doorstep, right on time? While most of us are fast asleep, there is a section of people for whom the day starts way earlier...
View ArticleRail Minister’s Prompt Action Reunites Two Missing Girls With Their Families
Two girls who ran away from their respective homes in West Bengal were reunited with their families after the father of one of the girls tweeted Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu, who took prompt action....
View ArticleIndustry Buildings Use over 3 Lakh Litres of Water for Cooling. This Tech...
An air conditioner that consumes 40-60% less electricity than normal and zero water in the cooling process? This technology is a reality today, thanks to two men who are not just saving their clients...
View ArticleTBI BLOGS: These Three Young Women Are on a Mission to Send Slum Kids Back to...
Many kids living in Mumbai's slums have to drop out of school because their parents cannot afford their fees or want them to work instead. Three Gandhi Fellows understood the gravity of this situation...
View ArticleThis Fictional Letter from a Prostitute to Nehru and Jinnah Is Nothing Short...
There are many notions and perceptions attached to women in prostitution. Some consider that women find freedom from patriarchal structures in prostitution; that college girls prostitute themselves for...
View ArticleThese 7 Women from 7 Countries Travelled from Gomukh to Bay of Bengal To Tell...
On her first trip to the South Pole, she started at Hercules Inlet at the southern end of the Weddell Sea, and completed the journey of 1,200 kilometres in just 50 days. According to her, it was...
View ArticleWhy Should Girls Quit Schools Once They Get Their Periods? Two Women in...
Girls from slums in Mumbai were quitting school halfway because they didn’t know how to deal with menstruation. Two young women decided to intervene. Today, they are spreading awareness about menstrual...
View ArticleHow Mahatma Gandhi Changed Lives of 10,000 Prisoners in Mumbai Central Jail....
Hate the sin, love the sinner,’ said Mahatma Gandhi. It is in line with this belief that one organization in Maharashtra is trying to reform jail inmates by conducting Gandhi Peace Exams based on...
View ArticleRemembering Ninja Chacha: Actor Razak Khan Breathes His Last in Mumbai
Popular actor Razak Khan who made us laugh all his life, breathed his last, today in Mumbai. Khan was rushed to Holy Family hospital in Bandra after he suffered a cardiac arrest at around 12.30 pm...
View ArticleVIDEO: How a Vada Pav Seller Goes out to Spread Smiles Every Day after Work
“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” ― Winston S. Churchill Jainath Arjun Bhogle is the personification of this saying. The owner of a unique vada pav stall from which...
View ArticleHere’s Why Mumbai Taxi Driver Gadadhar Mandal Is One of India’s Most Honest Men
Meet Gadadhar Mandal, a 53-year-old taxi driver in Mumbai who is known and respected for his honesty. His regular passengers know him as the person who has returned numerous mobile phones to people who...
View Article19-Year-Old’s Stunning 3D Drawings Will Make You Want to Reach Out and Touch...
Sushant S Rane, a first year student of Ramnarain Ruia College, Mumbai is currently in great demand. With several celebrities like Ritesh Deshmukh praising him on Twitter, his Instagram handle already...
View ArticleWater Harvesting, Solar Energy & More at Mumbai Museum
The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya is easily Mumbai's largest museum. A home to more than 50,000 exhibits, the museum is divided into three sections. The sections being art, archaeology...
View ArticleAll India Radio Turns 80. Here are 5 Things You May Not Know About Our...
India’s public national radio broadcaster All India Radio (AIR), also known as Akashvani, is celebrating its 80th birthday today. India’s radio broadcast history goes back to the early 1920s. During...
View ArticleVIDEO: After 2 Decades, Parents Go Back to School to Secure Future of Their...
Meet Sunita and Sunil Tambe! Residents of Dadar, Mumbai and parents of two, the duo successfully cleared their SSC exams, this year. While Sunita works a peon in an NGO, Sunil works in the civic water...
View ArticleMeet Malsawmi Jacob – First Mizo Author to Write an English Language Novel
Zorami, the first ever English language novel written by a Mizo author, tells the story of a young woman and the influences of the political unrest in her life. At the same time, it vividly describes...
View ArticleThis Catering Service Employee Returned a Laptop Lost on a Train and Declined...
Film writer Amborish Roychoudhary on Saturday lost his backpack and Macbook Air laptop in a CST-bound train at Wadala, Mumbai. In addition to the laptop, the backpack also contained an e-book reader...
View Article‘Sons of Vikrant’: Untold Stories and Memories Behind an Invincible Ship and...
The aptly named INS Vikrant was the first aircraft carrier of the Indian Navy. In Sanskrit, ’Vikrant’ means courageous and there are indeed many untold stories of valour, intrepidity, and heroism...
View ArticleHow a Police Inspector Saved an Old Woman Caught in a Fire While Having...
When Milind Desai, an Inspector in the Economic Offences wing of Mumbai Police, went out for dinner with his family to Gajalee, a seafood restaurant, on Sunday night, little did he know he would end up...
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