Unsung Heroes
A boy without legs who got selected in Google after graduating from IIT Chennai
Source : Yahwant Gupta (Facebook) Naga Naresh Karutura has just passed out of IIT Madras in Computer Science and has joined Google in Bangalore. You may ask, what’s so special about this 21-year-old when there are hundreds of students passing from various IITs and joining big companies like Google? Naresh is special. His parents are illiterate. …
Story of visually impaired Rohit Trivedi who co-founded an NGO “ARUSHI” for the differently-abled Children
For some, satisfaction comes by serving the needy, for some, the happiness and well being of others matters more than their own. Such is the story of, Rohit Trivedi, an English professor born with an impaired vision, who co-founded an NGO for the blind. “In the beginning, when my parents got to know about my …
Meet Laxman Rao : A Chaiwala in the morning, an AUTHOR by the evening
A writer constantly writes because he is tormented by his thoughts, he constantly needs to prove to himself and to others that he is actually worth something. Laxman Rao is one such story teller who has 24 literary works to his name out of which 12 have been printed and 6 re printed. But his …
Meet Ponni : A TRANS – WOMAN who teaches Bharatnatyam to Slum Children
TRANSGENDER – Does the word ring a bell? Does it acquire your unwarranted attention? For those who are socially aware and conscious about sensitive issues this word might not bring about earth shattering changes but for most of the inhabitants of our country the word and the associated meaning might be very well still considered …
A Modern India’s Sarpanch who is breaking religious stereotypes to bring in a change in the lives of innumerable Muslim women
Born in a Muslim family in Makhtapur, a small village in Khirka Block in Harda District, Firoj Khan was always concerned about the plight of Muslim women. He saw that Muslim girls had very little education, because of an orthodox thinking, the purdah system, etc, and as compared to other communities, their condition was severely …
Story of visually impaired Rajendra Dhurve – The youngest resource person of the Parliament Committee 2015
Born with normal eyesight, Rajendra, like every other child enjoyed the natural beauty while playing in parks or gardens. He loved nature. The lad of two forest department officials was closer to the green mesmerizing beauty of nature than anything else. But he never knew that this ‘green’ will turn into ‘black’ one day. At …
THIS ABILITY – Defying all Odds against Disability
“The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have”. The story of Ms. Poonam Shroti who has defied all odds and is inspiring a generation “I am suffering from OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECT-A by birth. It is a disease in which you suffer from multiple fractures . It is a very rare disease. …