“One of my broader goals is to have every citizen of Kolkata donate a nominal amount on a regular basis. If every citizen donated Re. 1 every week, we’d be able to collect 1.5 crores every...

PACE teaches you to be Prepared, A is for Awareness, C is how to respond with Clarity and E stands for Escape. The objective is to escape and not win a situation. The idea is that you divide your life...

These fellowships provide experiential learning and training to be changemakers...

“I have had a special attachment with the Chaltabagan puja for years. The organisers here always reached out with a lot of warmth and affection. The puja committee organises many wonderful progr...

Parents of children living in slums are being counselled by a city NGO so that their girls and boys continue with their studies and do not give up midway. The counselling also includes an effort to m...

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A 10-year childhood association with the city and its people prompted a London-based Bengali doctor to stand with Calcuttans during the second wave of Covid-19. Wales-born Rimona Sengupta, an alumnus...

One hundred farmers in Hooghly district on Friday got a pair of gumboots and gloves, each, as a shield against snakebites, from an organisation that works to reduce human-wildlife conflict. The monso...

Seventeen-year-old Arushi Pant is proof that you’re never too young for social work. The resident of New Town’s Rosedale Garden started Children’s Armour two years ago that, among ot...

A woman who turned 75 on June 19 did not host a party to celebrate the occasion. Shakuntala Lakhotia, instead, turned up at St Xavier’s College on Monday to give an ambulance to the institution...