For decades, Guru K. Kalyanasundaram Pillai has preserved the Thanjavur tradition through teaching, choreography and generations of disciples.
After more than seven decades and 20,000 performances, Bhimavva Shillekyathara’s Padma Shri honours her lifelong fight to preserve Karnataka’s traditional Togalu Gombeyaata.
The IIT-IIM graduate who left a London finance career for the IAS is stepping away after 13 years of public service, including bringing piped water to 125 homes in a Mirzapur village.
After government funding failed to materialise, Armstrong Pame mobilised ₹40 lakh and community support to build a 100-km road connecting remote Manipur with Assam and Nagaland.
A teenager from rural Barabanki turned the dust affecting her school into a low-cost invention that earned national recognition and took her to Japan.
A Nepal principal acted on urgent warnings, moving 1,643 children uphill before floodwaters destroyed their school.
Sadhguru has proposed a five-nation Himalayan Board for disaster preparedness while pledging ₹1 crore to Nepal’s flood relief efforts.
When Manjunath Bhajantari took charge as Deputy Commissioner of Ranchi, repeated complaints about children being denied admission under the Right to Education (RTE) Act highlighted
Starting with just 8–10 children in 2020, Malati Murmu now teaches around 60 tribal students for free in Santali, Bengali and English.
Social worker Mittal Patel founded Vicharta Samuday Samarthan Manch (VSSM) to secure identity documents, housing, voting rights, and education for over 200,000 members of India’s De-Notified and Nomadic tribes.
