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Forgotten Heroes
Born in 1963 into the Mallah community, Phoolan Devi became a Chambal dacoit, surrendered in 1983 and was twice elected to Parliament. She died in 2001.
Poverty
With over 300 licensed community radio stations operating across India, a grassroots broadcast revolution is reaching the villages, tribal belts, and farming communities that mainstream media consistently overlooks, in their own languages, on their own terms.
Poverty
How 90 million Indian women across 10 million Self-Help Groups built the world’s largest microfinance network through NABARD, DAY-NRLM, and collective savings.
Forgotten Heroes
In 1848, Savitribai Phule opened India's first school for girls in Pune and became the country's first female teacher. Her story of defying caste and gender oppression - walking through stones and mud to teach every day - is one of India's most important and least told histories.
Environment
The Chipko movement began in 1973 when Himalayan villagers hugged trees to stop commercial logging. Led by Chandi Prasad Bhatt, Gaura Devi, and Sunderlal Bahuguna, this grassroots revolution won a 15-year logging ban and inspired environmental movements worldwide, from Kenya's Greenbelt Movement to today's climate activism.
Gender Equality
Dowry in India is an economic transaction, not a caste ritual. Today, money sets the price - an IIT engineer from any caste commands more than a jobless Brahmin. Here's how economic power is reshaping India's marriage market.
Solutions
Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, has trained over 1,500 rural grandmothers as solar engineers across 93+ countries, proving that communities, not corporations, hold the key to ending energy poverty in India and beyond.
