Last year, gangrene cost Pratibha Hilim all four limbs. But this Adivasi teacher in Palghar, Maharashtra, has continued undaunted, teaching students who have little chance of an ‘online education’, at her own home

For decades, Jigar Ded has lived alone in a hut and houseboat full of memories on Srinagar's Dal Lake, after her husband and then her son died. But it's the hardships of the two lockdowns that have left her defeated

Soni came home to find that her five-year-old child had been sexually abused, though she and other sex workers in Mumbai's Kamathipura have tried to keep their kids safe while coping with lockdown-hit incomes

In the Nathjogi nomadic community, no girl had ever passed Class 10. With fierce determination, Jamuna Solanke, from a hamlet in Maharashtra's Buldana district, has broken that barrier. This is her story

In Maharashtra’s Osmanabad district, ASHAs have been working overtime to monitor the spread of Covid-19, despite poor safety gear and delayed payments – along with their usual load as frontline health workers

In lockdown time, Kerala’s 400-plus ‘Kudumbashree Hotels’, give cheap but wholesome meals to people low on income – students, medical attendants, security guards, drivers of ambulances and many others

In those huge lines of migrants walking determinedly along the Mumbai-Nashik highway in Maharashtra, the image of this extraordinary mother sparked the imagination of the artist

Her mornings go in clearing garbage in Kotturpuram’s streets for Chennai Corporation, but Rita akka, a physically challenged contract worker, spends her evenings feeding and talking to her canine companions

The Pardhis still carry the burdens and stigma of being branded a ‘criminal tribe’ by the British. Sunita Bhosale of Ambale village helps her community get educated, fight atrocities and overcome cultural biases