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Libia Lobo:102-Year-Old Lawyer Who Ran Secret Jungle Radio During Goa’s Liberation

Goa's secret radio refused to die, and so did the woman who ran it. For six years she lived in forests thick with leeches...

Sufiya Sufi Ran the Length of India in Record-Breaking 69 Days

Sufiya Sufi ran the length of India in a record-breaking sixty-nine days, and by the time she stopped running, she had made history for...

Assam Woman Dedicates 22 Years to Educating and Empowering Tribal Communities

She was still a schoolgirl when she watched a shopkeeper cheat the woman who cared for her, simply because...

How One Childless Woman Turned a Bare Road Into a Forest

A bare stretch of highway in Karnataka once carried nothing but dust and heat, until a woman, later named...

Ex-Journalist Built Free Boarding School in India’s Highest Village for Children

A teacher stands at 15,500 feet, and around her a handful of children wait for their morning meal before...

How Homemaker Turned Sarpanch Lata Devi Helped Reduce Drug Abuse Across Five Himachal Villages 

A village woman fought drugs and cut abuse by 80 percent, and the story begins not with a protest...

How Shrinking Forests and Mining Are Threatening the Asur Tribe’s Ancient Way of Life and Craft     

In the hills of Gumla district, mining pits are swallowing the forest that gives Jharkhand's Asur tribe both its...

Krishna Jayasankar: Breaking Records, Breaking Stereotypes 

She was called too big, too broad, too muscular for a girl. Those same shoulders have helped Krishna Jayasankar...