Hale and hearty 3-year-old Avinash runs cheerfully around the lush greenery surrounding his small one-room house in Lowairpoa, Assam. When he was 18-months-old, Avinash would hardly sit-up, crawl or even attempt to walk. In a health screening conducted during that time, it was found that he…
“I love spending time with friends at school. I get to learn a lot from them. Earlier, we hardly had time to be together because most of us were irregular to school. But now, we get to spend the whole…
The pandemic and lockdown have disrupted the course of our lives. For lakhs of people, the year was a massive blow to their finances and future. The most vulnerable families were the worst affected. The lack of an income put…
In the middle of the day, 16-year-old Mumta walks back with a pot on her head after collecting water from a newly installed water point near her house. Her life has changed drastically in a couple of months. She was…
“I’m not afraid now, I can give it back to anyone.” says Pranitha*, smiling. She promptly points out to a portrait of an elderly man hanging on the wall across her and says in a cheerful tone, “He is my dad.…
Filling taxes is an essential duty of every citizen of the country. It is a responsibility to fulfil. There are various provisions that allow taxpayers to make their choice of investments for tax exemption. Making investments to save taxes is…
25-year-old Priyanka works as a nurse at Allahabad but she was born and raised in Lalitpur, Uttar Pradesh. Once in few months, she takes an overnight train and then sits on a local bus for a couple of hours…
It was yet another day, yet another task for Mamtesh, who, in her usual routine, picked up her little sling bag, put on her sandals and stepped out of her two-room abode onto the streets of Meerut – a city that…
Thumpa didi grabs my arm and herds me down an alley and through a crowd of men. I am wary, but certainly curious. The air is heavy with the smell of alcohol fused with incense, sweat and sewage. The lanes…
Mumbai- the city of dreams, becomes Samira’s worst nightmare Samira (name changed to protect identity) loved going to school. However, at the age of fourteen, after having studied only up to class four, her family could no longer afford that…