Fifteen years ago, Loganathan, 38 from Coimbatore was brimming with life. He was Chef de Partie at Hotel Oberoi in Jaipur. He was able to support his family and educate his brother. But an accident on Nov. 26, 2006 changed his life forever. It crippled him for the rest of his life but...
The pandemic had kept students away from schools. Even after the schools reopened, there were several students, particularly from the marginalized sections of the society, who could not afford to pay fees and hence skipped going to the schools. Vasanthan Library School has been conducting free...
N Tamilselvan is a teacher with a mission accomplished. A Maths teacher at a government high school, nearly all his Tamil medium students have passed in their Class 12 Math exam for the last 15 years. During the pandemic period, he has put out videos of him teaching Class 10, 11 and 12 Math...
Born in a family of limited means, Vani Priya became a doctor with the support of people around her. Now serving in the Army, she is giving back to society by providing free treatment camps and medicines to poor people. Vani Priya comes from Thamarankottai, some 12 km from Pattukottai. Her...
K Ramesh works as Assistant Professor at IIM – Lucknow. At 28, Ramesh has done a PhD from Indian Institute of Technology – Madras on the topic of Sustainability on Food Supply Chain. He has completed a dual PhD degree from University of Technology at Sydney. Ramesh began this pursuit of success...
“I never even knew there was something called Indian Institute of Technology till I reached SSLC,” says 17-year-old Arunkumar. The boy was in news recently after Chief Minister M K Stalin appreciated him for cracking JEE and getting a seat in IIT. Arunkumar has studied in a government higher...
Sundays mean rest days for all of us. It is a time to spend with family and friends and laze around, doing not much. For S V M Sathyanarayana, Sundays mean coming from Kalpakkam to Chennai to help scholarship students of science pass central exams and become science researchers and faculty. He...
Jai Bhim, the Tamil movie on Rajakannu custodial death, has been trending across the state and the country. Controversies apart, the movie has earned praise from all quarters. Another story of brutality on an Irula woman is to be released as a book on Nov. 27. At 17, Athiyur Vijaya was...
The challenges that Ramkumar had to face were far more than what anyone faces in life. Born in a Dalit family with limited means in Kothamangalam village near Vellore, Ramkumar is visually challenged. Sightless from birth, Ramkumar was born to parents who were daily-wage workers. Yet, today,...
In pre-Independence Chennai, Chitrakulam area in Mylapore was an adda for writers, among other things. Big names in Tamil literature used to meet there. It was in one such meeting that Kalaimagal magazine was born. They took inspiration from a popular English magazine, Triveni, those days and...
