Salaam Baalak Trust (SBT) was established in 1988 with the proceeds from Salaam Bombay! (1988, directed by Mira Nair), a much celebrated film of its time dep...
This year, India Development Marketplace (IDM), the long-term programme supported by the World Bank Group, shortlisted 30 out of 264 proposals seeking finance...
In 1947, when for India the idea of independence had just been realised, Robert (Bob) Pierce, a war correspondent in the Korean War, was moving around reporti...
On January 23, a leading daily reported that Lutheran World Service India Trust (LWSIT), an NGO that fights for the rights of the under-privileged, will kick-...
'There are no good jobs for people with disabilities in a company; but there is a good person with a disability for every job in a company.'
This belief keeps...
The idea of Imagine is embodied in something called the Empowerment Workshop. It seeks to empower women in challenging life circumstances to envision and crea...
'It is all about an idea that changed the environment, channelised the positive energy, and found a vent for the negative, and brought about an encouraging ch...
Earlier this month, three Pune-based youths and one from Ahmednagar were selected as 'green champions' for Commonwealth Games (CWG) 2010, for their contributi...
A world where everyone has a decent place to live,' remains the utopian imagery of the world and it also makes for a nice, feel-good statement. But once in a wh...
For them, everything is temporary. Their job, their house, their village, their city or state and even the relationships that they build at the stations they wo...