Three members in a family of five have serious mental disorders. The head of the family earns Rs 300 or thereabouts per day, not enough to feed the family or treat those ailing. Overcoming thes...
Goddess Durga and her children sits in a unique pandal that shows the creativity of students and teachers of a city school. The pandal of Delhi Public School Megacity has been decorated with colourful...
Atifa Shahnaz Begum and Chara Al-Firdausi of Guwahati are inspiring protagonists of a mother-daughter story. And when Atifa presented Chara with the TTEF Award for Courage and kissed on her head durin...
Tough times have not been able to wipe the smile off Akash Patel’s face or make him give up his hobby of dancing.Besides attending school and tuition, Akash, a student of Class VIII in Shishu Niketa...
The world may be dark for him but Nyonyok shines like a light in every activity he pursues, from music to sports and academics.Winner of the award for courage at the first edition of the IIHM Presents...
Young Dhritiraj Deka had dreams of joining NASA as an astronaut but little did he know that his body would give way. Despite suffering from locomotor and muscular dystrophy, a condition which makes hi...
Sixteen-year-old Manish Sarma has his own way of holding pencils and organising letters into words and sentences and aspires to be an engineer.Manish, suffers from Treacher Collins Syndrome, a rare ge...
Undeterred by Down Syndrome that has afflicted him since birth, Anyatam Rajkumar nurses the hope of scripting his name in the record books with his expertise in swimming.A student of Class XII at Sout...
Aronyatesh Ganguly, 8, rushed to Howrah station from Nazrul Mancha on Saturday. The pint-sized eight-year-old boy from Serampore was among several real-life heroes who were celebrated at The Telegraph...
By Jhinuk Mazumdar, Debraj Mitra, Subhajoy Roy and Nadia Imam
in Calcutta