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...

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,...

K.P. Akila has performed the feat of securing 92.3% marks in Civil Engineering in Tamil medium and has won the gold medal, studying the course in the well known Guindy Engineering College (originally published in August 2018). She had studied in Tamil medium in  Dindivanam’s Rosanai Thai...

For doctor S Krishnan, returning home and serving his community was the natural thing to do. Born in a Dalit caste group in Nelakottai of Bandhalur taluk of Nilgiris district, 27-year-old son of tea plantation workers is not only the first graduate in his family but also the first doctor from...