As a burn victim, Nivetha had to drop out of polytechnic where she was studying. But she returned after two and half years to finish her course. She then did BE through lateral entry after which she got an IT job through campus placement. Instead of taking it up, Nivetha joined the hospital...
When healthcare has become a lucrative profession, Dr Ruby Samuel, a gynecologist, believes in old-world values and ideals of service Healthcare is increasingly a commodity that only those who can spend can get it. When modern medicine spread some 50 years ago, it was still a service. Those who...
Tanuja is a champion swimmer. The 15-year-old girl has aced district- and state-level competitions but she is not qualified to go to the nationals. She is Tamil but from Sri Lanka. As a refugee, she is disqualified from normal life and aspirations since she doesn’t have citizenship. Jayakumar...
S Divya studied Tamil medium at a government school near Kallakurichi but has now worked her way to a job as a chef at an international hotel in Maldives. Born in a poor family with limited means, Divya, now 22 years old, overcame the challenges that poverty threw on her way. Divya hails from...
Many take up the job of a housemaid to take care of their family but A Meena does it to take care of her 14 dogs. The money that she gets from the three houses where she works is used for buying food for the dogs. Meena has been living with the dogs for more than 24 years, and there is a...
K Roja, who studied Tamil medium in a government school, is now doing research on Plant Biology and Biotechnology at Loyola College. Roja is the first woman from Irular community to do her PhD. T Sakthivel, an Irular man hailing from Salayampalayam, did his PhD on brick kiln labour in...
Nature Walk often means just taking a walk through nature and experiencing the delights nature has to offer. But nature walks can also offer learning opportunities Climate change and its impact is widely discussed across the world. Articles flesh out the nuances. Awareness campaigns are...
Kausalya Srinivasan, a Bharatanatyam expert and Fulbright scholar, has embarked on a project to teach the dance form to Irular children in Tindivanam. On a recent evening, Irular children and their parents had gathered at the Thai Tamil school in Rosanai, Tindivanam. It was an awareness...
Staring at the night sky from a coir cot in his village, Sivaperuman would not have dreamed he’d be studying asteroids at Arizona University
Sundaravel studied in Tamil medium in school but is now a polyglot who knows Japanese and English. He struggled in his first year engineering since all the classes were in English but as the course went on he was able to settle down. Today, Sundaravel is teaching English to school students in...
