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Papamma (60), a farmer from the remote village of D. Kurubarahalli in Kolar district of Karnataka, has now become a household name in the State by bagging this year’s Rajyotsava Award.
Starting off as a farm labourer, Papamma is now a successful agriculturist. Relentless efforts in the field of organic farming for the last one decade [...]
Megha Kale’s petrol station, located near Sai Mandir in Nagpur, Maharashtra, is an exception. Most petrol companies would scoff at the idea of employing the handicapped at a petrol station. But Megha Kale has done it and wins our laurels.
They were a group of housewives, mostly in their fifties leading comfortable lives. But they chose to be somewhat atypical and thereby have started making a difference to the lives they touch, be it the senior citizens whom they strive to serve or th e corps of unemployed youth whom they seek to train to [...]
The genesis of Tata Steel lay in a report by a German geologist, Ritter Von Scwartz, claiming significant iron ore deposits in Chanda, a district close to Chhota Nagpur. The report spurred Jamsetji who struggled till his very end to set up the plant. But three years before the plant site was discovered Jamsetji died.
Time magazine named Sant Seechewal as one of the activist “Heroes of the Environment – 2008″. This has again brought into focus the work done under the leadership of the 46-year-old sant, who marries spirituality with eco-friendliness and activism.
In the mid-1990s, Sant Seechewal started by cleaning up his own village that had a population of [...]
