by Charu Thakur | Mar 17, 2023
(March 17, 2023) “The living are dirtier than the dead,” was Alagarathanam Natarajan’s response to his mother-in-law, who once reprimanded him for not taking a shower after returning from a crematorium. He was then a volunteer in his 60s and was...
by Amrita Priya | Sep 25, 2022
(September 25, 2022) When Nileema was thirteen, she made up her mind to never marry so that she can devote her entire life helping the poor. At that time, her school teacher father, and homemaker mother thought that it was just a kid’s dreamy plan. But little did...
by Charu Thakur | Mar 6, 2022
(March 6, 2022) Waiting for a train at Bokaro station to Pune two decades ago, a little boy approached a young Ashish Kalawar, offering to polish his shoes. Unhappy, Ashish reprimanded the boy saying he should be studying at his age. The boy replied that he was...
