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Mobile Diagnostic Device That Helps Pregnant Women in Rural India Receive...
A six-page report published in September by the established UK medical journal Lancet provided some shocking figures about maternal mortality in India. It revealed that in 2015, there were more than...
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US-Based Indian Woman Stands up to Cyber Bullying, Goes Public with a Gutsy...
In the month that’s celebrated as Bullying Prevention Awareness Month in the USA, a US-based Indian woman has shown a gutsy way to stand up to cyber bullying. By going public with her blackmailer’s...
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TBI Blogs: Mumbai Man Raises Voice Against Stifling Development to Ensure...
Mumbai's growing population has left little room for safe play spaces for children, forcing many to resort to the streets or unsafe playgrounds where they are vulnerable to a range of dangers. Here's...
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This Garment Factory Turned Shelter Home Has Supported More Than 250 Women in...
The Urja Trust was founded in 2012 by Deepali Vandana, a Mumbai based social worker. It is a non-government organisation that provides shelter to vulnerable women who are homeless or have run away due...
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An IIT Student and Her Team Gave a Makeover to This Mumbai Skywalk and It...
Saloni Mehta, Mumbai resident and Industrial Design student at IIT B, often found herself looking at the abandoned empty skywalk outside the IIT main gate that no one would use. There were many reasons...
View ArticleWhy a Mumbaikar Who Runs a Successful Tempo Business Is Happiest While...
Street sweepers are the unsung heroes of civil society. They clean up litter, dispose of it safely, and maintain cleanliness in the cities. And yet, they hardly ever get thanked, much less recognised,...
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Love Photography but Don’t Know How to Earn from It? Let 3 Young...
Three college graduates are helping hundreds across the country live their dreams of becoming photographers. Armed with their cameras, passion, and hard work, they are telling budding photographers why...
View ArticleFlash Mob Enthralls Visitors at Gateway of India on Rashtriya Ekta Diwas
Visitors to one of India’s most iconic monuments, Gateway of India in Mumbai, were in for a treat on Monday when the site became the backdrop for a flash mob on the occasion of Rashtriya Ekta Diwas...
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Meet the Indian Woman Who Stood up to Trump, 5 Years Before Hillary Did
Five years before the US presidential candidate Hilary Clinton faced off against Donald Trump, an Indian woman had showed the courage to stand up to him. Smita Panvalkar, the then 54-year-old resident...
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Welcome to Dharavi Art Room – A Safe, Colourful Space Where Children Come to...
A colourful room in a slum, where women and children come to work together, forget all their problems, and create art – that’s Dharavi Art Room for you. Set up by an art graduate way back in 2005, it...
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These Story Tellers Weave Magic With Their Narrations of Works by Classical...
On a humid August afternoon in Mumbai this year, in the bustling Press Club of the city, a bunch of story tellers were about to make an unusual presentation. “Agli kahani pesh kartein hain, Saadat...
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These People Brought Smiles to Others during the On-Going Demonetisation Drive
Angry, frustrated, and unhappy faces are not an uncommon sight in the long, overflowing queues at banks these days. But while all of us deal with the current cash crisis in our own ways, there are some...
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Mumbai Poetry Festival Brings Together 50 Poets from 5 Countries to Celebrate...
Translating poetry is one of the most intricate and difficult tasks in the world because the meaning behind the words is often at risk of being lost in the process. And therefore, it is important for...
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A Startup That Allows You to Wear Your Own Art on Your Footwear!
Trishla Surana’s footwear brand Colour Me Mad makes customised shoes and is introducing, for the first time in India, footwear made using cork, which is helpful in improving body posture and reducing...
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TBI Blogs: This Couple Converted a Police Junkyard into a Thriving...
Both in their 60s, the Khatris have successfully converted a police junkyard into a biodiversity garden, creating an example in beautiful living. When I arrived at Mumbai’s Samata Nagar Police Station...
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It’s Not Always the Man’s Fault: Mumbai Girl Set an Example by Speaking up...
The numerous cases of violence against women often result in a general mistrust towards men, and there are situations when many of them find it difficult to prove their innocence. It was this...
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TBI Blogs: Two Poets Capture Art’s Ability to Unite in a Riveting Performance...
Art can overcome huge differences between people and unite them in common cause. Here is a poem celebrating this unique ability of art to bring people together and erase prejudices and distinctions....
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These Mumbai Residents Recycle Waste & Use It to Grow Vegetables & Fruits on...
Living in a city and being environmentally conscious might seem almost impossible in today’s world. But some Mumbai residents are trying to show that there are ways to care for the environment and...
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No More Khatna: Meet the Five Women Standing against the Ritual of Female...
I was browsing through Facebook while sipping chai when a video caught my attention. I hit the play button. “A cut that pierced my life…A small nick, just a piece of skin, they say….” The video,...
View ArticleThis Police Constable Climbed a Hill Barefoot to Save a Man from Committing...
Suhas Nevase, a 29-year-old police constable from Mumbai, saved a 35-year-old man who was about to commit suicide because he had not received his salary. At 5:00 pm on Wednesday, Sakinaka police...
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