'We are patriots who love India and the secular ideals it has always upheld.'
As the country erupts over the CAA and NRC, all I can do is think of Daya Ram from Pakistan in Jodhpur and Tehmina from Afghanistan in Delhi, says Geetanjali Krishna.
There are almost 1 million people in India with a cleft palate or cleft lip who have not received any treatment to remedy their condition. Every year, almost 35,000 infants are born with cleft lip and palate, reports Geetanjali Krishna.
St Jude India ChildCare Centres is a unique organisation which runs residential homes for families of children who need to undergo long-term cancer treatment. Its 37 centres close to India's premier cancer hospitals give children a fighting chance against the disease.
What years of education, social messaging and reservations couldn't accomplish, water scarcity did in one summer, says Geetanjali Krishna.
How did people with less education than me and my several degrees navigate the Internet with such ease, asks Geetanjali Krishna.
'The easy availability of funds has enabled us to not only hire the best faculty, but has also made it possible for us to retain them with the best possible infrastructure -- labs, grants etc,' Ashoka University VC Malabika Sarkar tells Geetanjali Krishna.
Their music, available online, sung in Hindi, English, Urdu and Marathi, displays a new grammar and vocabulary which expresses the language of the disempowered,
Tudu's free tuition classes are sought after. She has 45 students who come to her every day to study. Geetanjali Krishna meets the young teacher in one of India's poorest villages, winner of the Plan India Youth Champion Award.
In the past, and even to some extent today, silver jewellery used to be an accurate indicator of a family's creditworthiness, says Geetanjali Krishna.
A simple act of generosity has gone a long mile, women of the locality no longer have to battle over water.
Who'd have imagined that a bunch of poor, illiterate women in a slum would be able to achieve this?
'Within and outside their homes, all married women in this region must cover not only their heads, but in some cases, faces too,' discovers Geetanjali Krishna.
'Within and outside their homes, all married women in this region must cover not only their heads, but in some cases, faces too,' discovers Geetanjali Krishna.
'If we're able to make a child laugh or feel happy to come to school, more than half the battle is won,' Katha Founder Geeta Dharmarajan tells Geetanjali Krishna.
Nagpur-based Slum Soccer is transforming the lives of slum children with the help of football, writes Geetanjali Krishna.
A Class 12 student is changing the lives of the girls in her village, says Geetanjali Krishna.
'We're faceless while we're alive, invisible when we die.'
Why was it so easy for students to get a college degree? asks Geetanjali Krishna.
'Even the most basic water amenities, people like us used every day, didn't exist there at all.'
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