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This Former Sex-Worker Fought The World To Claim Her Right to Motherhood
“Most people say that motherhood is a blessing. In our community, most consider it a curse. I feel they are wrong because the divine doesn’t discriminate, humans do. I was a part of that community, and...
View ArticleExclusive: Inside India’s First Water Clinic For Elephants on the Banks of...
To rescue and rehabilitate elephants from abuse and captivity and provide them with the best medical care, India has opened its first exclusive hospital for elephants in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh. The...
View ArticleIAS & IPS: Meet the 3 Lady Officers Helping Kodagu Fight Devastating Floods
The worst is seemingly over for the people of Kodagu, after a devastating week of rains last week that resulted in frightening landslides and floods in 79 villages. According to The Hindu, “Kodagu...
View ArticleA Flood of Heroes: 6 People Helping the Stranded With Courage & Compassion!
Nature’s fury raging across the nation has brought people closer to stand united in the face of such unforgiving adversity. This year’s erratic monsoons have brought misery to many. While some parts of...
View ArticleThis 55-YO Fisherman Risked His Life to Save 500 in Flood-Hit Sangli!
When faced with a disaster, most people tend to run away from it. But, there are a few who run towards it. Ramdas Umaji Madane belongs to the latter category. After eight days of incessant rains, life...
View Article60-YO Kerala Woman Shatters Age Stereotypes, Has Rescued 1000s of Snakes!
People have long looked at snakes with a mixture of fear and awe. Snakes are symbols of divinity, rebirth, guardianship, and even carry the weight of the dichotomy of good and evil. But ironically, our...
View Article‘Threats Don’t Stop Me’, Says This 37-YO Who Has Rescued 41,000 Manual...
Meera Baghel (name changed to protect identity) had almost accepted her fate. She had adjusted to the fact that being a manual scavenger—collecting human excreta, cleaning drains, lifting animal...
View ArticleDrug Addicts to Beggars, 22-YO TN Girl Has Rescued 150 Homeless People
In the past year-and-a-half, K Manisha (22), a lecturer at the Nandha College of Nursing in Tamil Nadu’s Erode district, Tamil Nadu, has tirelessly rescued and rehabilitated nearly 150 beggars, drug...
View ArticleFor 30 Years, This Nagpur Man Has Rescued And Educated Children of Sex Workers!
“I will forever be grateful to Rambhao Ingole who saw me as a human being. He not only rescued me but also rehabilitated me into the society with dignity and respect. If it wasn’t for him, I would have...
View ArticleVizag Gas Leak: Check Helplines, Emergency Shelters, Rescue Efforts
With The Positive Collective, The Better India’s COVID-19 coverage is available to regional language publications for free. Write to editorial@thebetterindia.com for more details. A major gas leak in...
View ArticleAir India Crash: Braving Rains & COVID19, Malappuram Locals Rescued The Injured
Last evening, at 7.40 pm, an Air India Express flight carrying 190 people from Dubai attempted to make a landing on the runway at Kerala’s Kozhikode airport. In an unfortunate turn of events owing...
View ArticleIdukki Youngsters Rebuild Broken Bridge in 5 Hours, Save Stranded Villagers!
In 2018, the Kerala floods had destroyed the Santhipalam bridge over the Periyar river in the Mlamala-Chappath road that connected more than 100 families living in Mlamala village with the Vandiperiyar...
View ArticleHow Mumbaikars Came Together to Save Noorie, The Dog Who was Brutally Raped
Pictures and videos of Noorie, a nine-year-old stray dog, on Instagram today show her posing cutely, eating bowls of dog-safe ice cream and snuggling up under a cosy blanket. Her baby pink collar...
View ArticleChamoli Glacier Burst: ITBP’s Inspiring Chant as They Rescue 12 Trapped in...
The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) personnel chant in unison as they continue the rescue mission of trapped victims in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district. An avalanche and massive flooding of Alaknanda...
View ArticleWhy People of Kashmir Call This Former Maths Teacher to Rescue Bears, Leopards
Aaliya Mir, who lives in Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, was busy when we called — her phone giving an engaged signal. But we keep trying. The 42-year-old former Maths teacher is famous on the internet...
View Article‘We Ended the Dancing Bear Practice & Rescued 3,000 Families From Abject...
In 1995, Geeta Seshamani witnessed a sloth bear bobbing up and down in the middle of the Delhi-Agra highway. “The poor bear was being dragged along by a coarse rope that was threaded through his...
View Article‘My Son’s Beagle Made Me Fall in Love With Dogs; Now I Feed Over 650 Strays a...
Divya Kapoor Gurwara had two rules to be followed in her household – no walking into the house with dirty soccer shoes and no bringing in any stray animals. While the first rule was followed to the...
View ArticleArmy Team Rescues 6-Day-Old Baby, Mother From Flood-Ravaged Silchar
The flood situation in Assam remains grim. But amid tales of sorrow, we have been seeing valiant efforts of the Assam Rifles. One of their rescue efforts is the evacuation of a mother and her...
View ArticleMagsaysay Awardee Fought His Own Battles to Rescue 9000 Mentally-Ill Patients
Dr Bharat Vatwani, an Indian psychiatrist, has been rescuing, rehabilitating and reuniting mentally-ill persons living on the streets with their families for over 30 years through his organisation...
View Article‘Worse Than Prison’: How Journalists Helped Rescue 40 Bonded Labourers From...
Not everyone was sleeping peacefully on those wintry nights of November 2021 in the quaint Chandrapur village of Bhadohi District, Uttar Pradesh. A few of them were anxious and frightened about their...
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