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Fighting Cancer to Travel the World: Mumbai Couple’s Love Story Will Leave...
“It might seem strange to kids these days, but the first time I met my husband was at the mandap of our wedding,” smiles Mukta Verma, a retired government registrar, as she narrates the story of how...
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Mumbai Police Celebrates B’Day of the Father of Boy Who Died Saving Women
For those who don’t know, the 60-year-old Valerian Santos is the father of Keenan Santos, who along with Reuben Fernandez, were murdered when they tried to protect their female friends from being...
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Mumbai Man’s Eco-Recycling of Greywater Helps 200 Villages End Water Scarcity!
Most of us may not remember the early experiences of our childhood, but some incidents take root deeply in our subconscious shaping our personality, choices, and behaviour for life. For Ajit Gokhale, a...
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Forgotten Legend Played a Key Role in ISRO’s Chandrayaan, Has a Village Named...
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has deservedly garnered plaudits for its remarkable contributions to the country. However, without taking anything away from the genius minds who have made...
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Greeted with Lotteries & Love: When a Million Mumbaikars Met the First Humans...
“It’s true! They’ve done it! Men land on moon” reported the Times of India hailing Man’s history-making first step on our natural satellite on 20 July 1969. Never before had we done something so great,...
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17-YO Mumbai Boy Creates India’s 1st 3D Printed Reef to Replace Crumbling Corals
Siddharth Pillai’s first scuba-dive was in 2013 when he was 12 years old. As is the case with most scuba-divers, once he saw the as yet unexplored sea-world, the interest became a passion. From then...
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73 Mumbai Homes Join Hand to Stop 1,500 Kg of Garbage From Ending Up in...
Spread across six acres in the suburb of Chembur in Mumbai, lies Green Garden Apartments, a gated community of 73 individual bungalows. These households once generated over 600 kg of waste per month,...
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With Fruit Shells, Stalks & More: 5 Eateries Making Dining out Guilt-Free &...
Reducing waste is not the responsibility of one person or entity but that of everyone working towards the goal, unitedly. Let’s take plastic, for example. While its usage has become rampant only in the...
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She Quit a Corporate Career so City Folks Could Experience Village Life in...
More than a decade ago, my parents took my brother and I to a village in Tamil Nadu. I still remember asking them why they were calling it a holiday, when I saw the thatched house we were supposed to...
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Mumbai Doctor Spends Rs 1.6 Lakh from Own Pocket to Grow Forest of 1500+ Trees!
My first ever visit to a Miyawaki forest in Bengaluru, was a fantastic experience as it exposed me to a whole new concept of afforestation in our cities. It was also slightly strange because there is a...
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Married at 16, Abandoned at 18: This Single Mother’s Journey Defines True Grit!
At the age of 16, I was devising ways to go and watch Kaho Na Pyaar Hai, the highest grosser of the year 2000. Though my teenage heart belonged to Shahrukh Khan, my school friends and I particularly...
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Want a Plastic-Free Boardroom? This Woman’s Fight Will Teach You The Right...
If you are on Twitter, you probably know that Anand Mahindra, the Chairman of Mahindra Group, is extremely active on the social networking site. So, when a twitter user, Mitali (@filmibaaz), in...
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53 Years & Counting: The Story Behind Mumbai’s Favourite Sardar Pav Bhaji!
As you approach this restaurant, the sound of the stainless steel masher hitting the iron tawa rhythmically hits your eardrums. But it isn’t the first thing you see. Instead, you join a serpentine...
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Goons To Threats: Nothing Can Break This 56-YO’s Will To Save Mumbai’s Mangroves
It’s true that Mumbai is a city of contrasts. Generations have grown up seeing the towering opulence of skyscrapers juxtaposed with the asymmetrical line of clogged tin-roofed slums. It’s either the...
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The Healing Stage: This Psychodramatist Will Help Heal Your Trauma Through...
Isha (name changed) used to get anxious very easily. She would also find herself getting angry without any provocation, and her husband and children would have to bear the brunt of her wrath. An...
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Rejected From 28 Job Interviews, Mumbai Woman Defied Society to Chase Her Dreams
You should not, and you cannot, are the two things she grew up hearing. From going out to play with other kids, finding a friend, to even pursuing higher studies, everything was a battle against the...
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This Powerful Photo-Initiative Fights the Stigma Against Public Breastfeeding!
Did you know that the lives of almost 8,23,000 children and 20,000 mothers could be saved annually by breastfeeding? Asks Chicago-based Aishwarya Rajan Babu, founder of The Mommy Series, an online...
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They Never Left Each Other’s Side: Mumbai Duo’s Moving Story is...
Bharti Gelani and Honey Lulla first met during the first year of junior college. Remembering her first memory of Bharti, Honey says, “I remember her as a skinny tomboy with really short hair, who was...
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Recycled Decor, Eco-Cutlery & E-Invites: Mumbai Couple Go Green on Wedding!
What is your idea of the perfect wedding? A grand location, all your loved ones under one roof, celebrating the perfectly dressed couple who are about to take a vow to spend the rest of their lives...
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After Brother’s Fatal Accident, Pune Man Spends Rs 15 Lakh To Make Expressway...
On December 22, 2012, Tanmay Pendse’s actor brother, Akshay Pendse, his two-year-old son and veteran actor Anand Abhyankar met with an accident along the Pune-Mumbai Expressway. A speeding truck...
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