Meet Ashok Talpatra, grew up in poverty, lived in slum, cracked IIT JEE, studied at IIT Bombay, now works as a…., he is from….
While IITs undeniably offer a pathway to life-changing success for many students, opinions do vary on whether they are the ...
Meet Aviral Bhatnagar, grew up in poverty, lived in slum, cracked IIT JEE, studied at IIT Bombay, now works as a…., he is from….
While IITs undeniably offer a pathway to life-changing success for many students, opinions do vary on whether they are the ultimate driver of social mobility in India.
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A Mughal widow: Her in-laws ruled India, but she lives in a slum, earning less than a domestic worker
Married into the royal family that ruled India for three centuries, Sultana Begum lives in penury in a cramped two-room hut ...
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YouTuber exposes Phuket’s shocking slum conditions (video)
A YouTuber caused a storm online with his latest video which takes viewers behind the glossy tourist façade to one of Phuket’s largest slums.
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I’m head of an NGO in Kenya. The shutoff of USAID support has been devastating
There is a pervasive sense of fear — of losing access to critical health care services and of livelihoods lost,” CFK Africa ...
Sultana, the great-granddaughter of Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar reduced to a life of poverty; she is alive and lives here in India
Sultana Begum, the great-granddaughter-in-law of the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, lives in a Kolkata slum in stark ...
IIT-B graduate who grew up in slum is now a Google techie in Switzerland. How important are IITs?
Ashok Talpatras journey from a slum to becoming a Staff Software Engineer at Google in Zurich highlights the transformative ...
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YouTuber ‘Gabi’ spotlights Phuket slum
PHUKET: Popular YouTuber ‘Ride with Gabi’ has stirred controversy online with his latest video ‘The Other Side of Phuket’, ...
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This diagram shows exactly where the government is going wrong on poverty
John Bird's poverty diagram shows how far removed the aspiration for welfare spending in 1948 is from today's reality.
'Spent my childhood in extreme poverty': PM Modi talks about learnings he got from sitting at his father's tea shop
Prime Minister Narendra Modi reflects on his childhood of extreme poverty and the lessons learned from his father's tea shop.
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Medellín’s Urban Revolution: Can Social Urbanism Heal Cities?
Once dubbed the world’s murder capital, Medellín, Colombia, has rewritten its story through social urbanism—a bold approach blending public spaces, mobility, and community power. This article dives ...