Heroes For India

Some heroes don’t make headlines.
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What if a Ganesh idol immersed after visarjan could return to a classroom as a study table?
Through Project HARMONY, 1,000+ kg of discarded PoP idols was recycled into 300 study tables for an NMMC school. A striking example of festival waste becoming educational infrastructure.

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In 1995, Chutni Mahato was branded a “witch” after a family member fell ill. She was abused, humiliated and forced to flee. She then spent decades helping women facing the same accusations with reports crediting her with rescuing 120+ women. She received the Padma Shri in 2021.

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His mother was struggling with the repetitive work needed to make Pochampally sarees. So Chintakindi Mallesham, a traditional weaver, built the Laxmi Asu machine. It reduced the process from around 6 hours to 90 minutes. He received the Padma Shri in 2017.
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She started with 5 kg of milk covers a month.
Today, Himani Datar collects 50–60 kg every month from homes, schools, offices and institutions across Chennai and sends them to recyclers.A simple idea to keep milk covers out of landfills became a community movement.
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A penicillin injection left Narayan Jena paralysed. He refused to leave school. His brother carried him for kilometres and friends helped push his tricycle. Today, he is the Headmaster of Kotlaguda Primary School in rural Odisha. #HeroesForIndia #NarayanJena #IndianHeroes

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A PhD in Chemistry could have led Dr. Madhav Chavan to a very different life.
Instead, he returned to India, worked in literacy programmes in Mumbai's slums and co-founded @Pratham_India in 1995. His focus helping children actually learn.
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4,000 women. ₹10 each. One bank.
Ela Bhatt founded SEWA in 1972 to organise self-employed women workers. Soon, those women pooled ₹10 each to establish the SEWA Cooperative Bank.
A powerful lesson in what collective ownership can build.
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She never went to school.
But Hirabai Lobi spent her life helping Siddi women become self-reliant and children get an education.
She founded the Mahila Vikas Foundation in 2004 and received the Padma Shri in 2023. #HeroesForIndia #HirabaiLobi #IndianHeroes

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This is Rakesh Kumar Sangar, a community volunteer from Panchkula working to promote voluntary blood donation and organ-donation awareness. Through his organisation, he helps bring communities together for blood-donation drives supporting those who need it most.
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This is Armstrong Pame, the IAS officer popularly known as the “Miracle Man.” In 2012, he mobilised public contributions to build a 100-km road connecting parts of Manipur with Nagaland and Assam. Today, the People’s Road is part of National Highway 137.
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This is Paul Ramanathan, a polio survivor working to make education more inclusive for children with disabilities. Through SAMA Foundation, he supports inclusive education and therapeutic interventions in government schools.
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This is Mohd Mehboob Malik, a tea seller from Kanpur who spends 80% of his tea shop income on educating poor children. He started a free school in 2015 for 40 children, providing education, books, uniforms and stationery.
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This is Manisha Tokle, a grassroots activist from Beed who has spent over three decades working for marginalised communities.
Since 2019, she has organised women sugarcane workers around exploitative conditions and the issue of hysterectomies.#HeroesForIndia #WomensRights

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In 1980, electrical engineer Kailash Satyarthi gave up his career to fight child labour.
His movement has helped liberate 138,000+ children and he later led a global march against child labour across 103 countries.
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For nearly 40 years, Delhi taxi driver Suraj Kumar Vaid has been helping accident victims. He rushes victims to hospitals and has helped 200+ people over the years, training other taxi drivers in first aid.
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The Inspiring Seniors Foundation brings senior citizens into classrooms as volunteer teachers, turning a lifetime of experience into lessons for the next generation. Are you interested in volunteering? Connect with @ISF2026 to learn more.
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In 1984, two brothers survived the Bhopal Gas Tragedy.
One was 13. The other was just five months old.
Years later, they would reunite and spend their lives fighting for Bhopal's victims.
This is their story.
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For nearly 60 years, Patiala School has provided free residential special education to deaf, blind and deafchildren from across India. Today: 350 deaf + 125 blind + 5 deaf-blind = 480 students. And around 2,100 students have already passed out.
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This is Dwarika Prasad Semwal, the man behind Uttarakhand’s “Beej Bomb” campaign. Since 2017, villagers are making seed-filled balls and scattering them in forests, hoping that more food inside the forest means fewer animals entering farms.
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This is Gangadhara Tilak Katnam, Hyderabad’s “Road Doctor.”
He has spent around ₹40 lakh of his own money repairing 2,000+ potholes with his wife.
His son even built an app so people could report potholes to him.
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