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Speech and Hearing Impaired Individuals Run the Show at This Mumbai Restaurant!

Diners are required to simply mimic these hand-gestures to place their orders.

Unheard Echoes: How A Bangalore Restaurant Is Unique With Its Differently-Abled Staff

“They are happy to work amidst a set of people they can relate to. ... they have a lot of fun and mingle with each like members of a family.”

How to sponge off family and relatives and be appreciated for it

"Between 16 and 40 years of age, to live is to do the things you love with the people you want to be with; whatever you do, don’t get a job."

Once homeless, Mumbai heroes revolutionise shoe industry

Two young men launch a company that wants to ensure that no Indian walks barefoot

A silicon tide lifts many boats

Free Software Movement of Karnataka teaches children from the slum how to wield a mouse and use open source software to gain 'whitecollar' skills.

Paaduks: Shoes with soul

Inspired by an article that spoke of the possibility of using waste tyres as soles for shoes, the team dove into exploring this idea

Khadi Production in India: A Way Forward to Green Economy?

Ecological economists like Tim Jackson, Peter Victor, and others talk about prosperity without growth and highlight the need for greening the economy on a community scale.

Raju: 1 Billion(!) Trees planted in a Day!

S. M. Raju ingeniously integrated the Indian government’s rural employment guaranty scheme (NREGA) with tree plantation drives.

Ignited Minds: Elango turns Kuthambakkam village as a model village

....the story of R Elango, a Dalit leader turning his village into a Model village in India