Karnataka

When Dr Manoj Kumar Sharma set up an internet deaddiction centre in Bengaluru’s Nimhans psychiatric hospital four years ago, he barely saw a patient a week. “Today, we get at least five to six cases every day,” he says of the Services for Healthy Use of Technology (SHUT) clinic that runs a 21-day

It was in August 2016 that Vimala Kadam came upon a pitiable sight. A line of elderly men and women were waiting on one side of the Mudhol-Nippani state highway near Umarani village to cross the road and head to the field to relieve themselves. Without a second thought, she went ahead and met some

Every day, as a bunch of municipal workers sweep the streets of Kumbar Koppal and go door to door to collect garbage, a 75-year-old man keeps an eagle's eye on them. D Madegowda gets up early to monitor the work. "When there is 100% commitment, nothing can prevent you from achieving your goals," he

Bowled over by the gesture of a 21-year-old girl who spent her maiden earnings to build two toilets in a village school for girls, Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal made an impromptu visit to the school to appreciate her work on Friday. Megha Kochar, a resident of Ittigegudu had built two toilets at

This is the story of Paul Muddha who is a senior manager in charge of a call centre for Canara Bank in Bengaluru. Paul, 48-year-old, was born visually impaired and was abandoned in a school for the blind as a child. Drawing from his own early struggle, Muddha is determined to help as many

Today, when we rarely find people talking in Sanskrit, in village Mattur in the Shimoga district of Karnataka all the residents talk in fluent Sanskrit. Reports say that once a child attains the age of 10 he starts getting lessons in Vedas.It is also reported that in every family an IT professional

A sixty year old woman with the help of 4 others dug a 52 ft well in a village in Udupi. The gram panchayat had provision for this under NREGA Act but as the total cost exceeded the allotted funds this woman used her savings to finish the work. Now, some ten families are dependent on this well.

Government Primary School in Hirekoppa village of Ron taluk in Gadag is unique. The teaching staff of six are managing the school with their own money. An excellent report in TOI. According to the Times "This model should serve as a template for many government-run schools, which depend on meagre

Suresh B Chalageri, a dedicated teacher, has trekked a hill to reach his school traversing a distance of 8 km every day for years. Located atop the hill in Byrapura village of Gajendragada taluk in Karnataka's Gadag, the school was in a shambles when Chalageri, 50, was first posted there. He proudly