A Bank of Games and Fun

Monday 20 July '09

While most NGOs working with kids provide them with books and formal or non-formal education, electronics engineer Shweta Chari thought they needed more than just that.

Salve for the Mind

Monday 13 July '09

The Warkari Yatra is that time of the year when streams of singing and dancing devotees head for Pandharpur to seek the blessings of the god Vithal. Lakhs of men...

Art from behind bars

Monday 6 July '09

You don’t have to be ‘free’ to creatively express yourself. Kavita Shivdasani and Nishant Shah have shown us just that with an initiative to put together paintings by prisoners of various jails across Maharashtra.

Tackling A Stigma

Monday 29 June '09

In the quiet lanes of Wadala is hidden a little-visited institution that’s almost a mirror to the attitude Indian society has had to leprosy...

Borivali residents complain of contaminated water

Wednesday 24 June '09

Amid the city’s water crisis, few residents of Borivali have been complaining of contaminated water supply.

Energy for the Youth

Monday 22 June '09

Young professionals may have a busy life, but some always find time for the things they love, proves VidYuth founder member Anshuman Sinha.

A Yearlong Echo

Monday 8 June '09

Thandi mein mera dhanda itna badh jata hai ki main sambhaal nahi sakta. Business is so brisk in the winter that I can’t handle it.’

BALANCING ACT: Night college topper is a civic clerk who squeezed in time to study

Friday 5 June '09

Manisha Chavhan is no average 28-year-old. For somebody who had to drop out of college because she had to take up a job...