Building self-reliance in children of the street

Butterflies, a non-government organisation, is helping street children to organise themselves and operate a restaurant in the Capital's main bus …

Working children find a home in Bangalore

A voluntary group helps street children by organising them into associations and building a home for them.

Mother's little helper

Caring for the handicapped

Handicapped children are being helped to overcome their disabilities through special programmes and innovative schemes such as art.

Who will help her learn?

Merely providing schools is not enough to educate the more than 197.34 million illiterate women in India. Far too often, girls have to drop out …

Greening young minds

A school near Kodaikanal nurtures children for an ecofriendly future

A day with Shibu Karmakar

Nitin Shethi learns more than he had reckoned, from local wisdom

No chapattis

For some young children, wheat is like poison

Computer games simulate society

Class act

A photo exhibition transcending borders

Learning to live with noise pollution

Waking up to the horrors of child labour

Several groups are working among child workers in India, seeking to improve their working and living conditions

Born dead

In the story from the great Indian epic, Mahabharat , the legendary hero Arjun was once telling his wife Shubhadra how to penetrate the …

Young Innovators

Good will from ice cream

Washing of ice cream vats at the Nirula's factory produced a liquid that was rich in milk fats and sugar, but had a high pollution potential. …

Experiments with truth

Innovative science teaching scheme relegated to supplementary status

Living in Hell

Residents of Peera Garhi, a village in outer Delhi, are having to deal with a nightmare. A highly polluting plastics industry is to blame

Dussehri's entrepreneurs

Village women emerge as successful entrepreneurs thanks to NEED an organisation with a difference

Fighting for survival

Shrinking habitat due to deforestation has forced elephants to enter human territory in Orissa's Keonjhar district

A headmaster and his students save a forest

Long wait for justice for pregnancy test drug victims

Victims of hormonal drug, Primodos, in UK have been seeking justice for over 40 years now

Old Batteries New Rules

The Indian government comes out with the draft rules for recycling lead acid batteries. Their effectiveness is questionable

Toxic tales from God's own country

As deformity cases swell in Kerala's Kasaragod district, the silent screams of the victims fall on the deaf ears of the government

A deformed existence

In Jaduguda and Rawatbhata, physical deformities are a way of life. The reality behind the shadows of India's nuclear establishment