School children in rural Assam, who lack exposure that their urban counterparts take for granted, have started using technology to their benefit, understanding their lessons better and learning new concepts

• Rukmini Manasa Avadhanam
• Oct 27, 2017
• Nalbari, Assam

Leather workers and people who deal with cattle carcasses remain an oppressed minority in villages across India, languishing at the bottom rung of rural society and ignored by governments at all levels

• Sanjiv Phansalkar
• Oct 25, 2017

Lacking piped water supply, young girls and women in rural areas of Jammu & Kashmir spend hours walking long distances to get water far from their homes and waiting for their turn at the source

• Athar Parvaiz
• Oct 23, 2017
• Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir

After men migrate for work, women of Mousuni Island in the Sundarbans in West Bengal have to struggle for survival, losing land to floods and erosion, and livelihoods to salinity ingress

• Sayanti Sengupta and Nirmalya Choudhury
• Oct 20, 2017
• Sundarbans, West Bengal

Broadcasting programs on gender inequality and against stigmas suffered by women in Odisha, community radio stations have effected a positive change in rural communities where girls are still the ignored population

• Basudev Mahapatra
• Oct 18, 2017
• Nayagarh, Odisha

Many farmers in India, the world’s top coconut producing country, have successfully introduced coconut farming in arid regions to meet growing demand and to boost earnings

• Hiren Kumar Bose
• Oct 16, 2017
• Jalore, Rajasthan

Stepping into an all-male preserve, mechanic Meerabai Meena of Padoona village in Udaipur district traverses hilly terrain every day, repairing hand pumps to ensure safe drinking water for residents in five villages

• Jyoti Rajput
• Oct 13, 2017
• Udaipur, Rajasthan