Shashi Tharoor: Why nations should pursue "soft" power

Shashi Tharoor: Why nations should pursue "soft" power

Helping poor Indians crack toughest test

Santosh Kumar, son of a landless farmer from the dirt-poor Indian state of Bihar, has got through the entrance exam of the country's most prestigious engineering school, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).

A 'clothes bank' that helps millions

It is a bank with a difference as it does not deal in money, but in clothes, one of the basic human needs after food and shelter.

A fighter from Godavari to Google

Naga Naresh Karutura has just passed out of IIT Madras in Computer Science and has joined Google in Bangalore. You may ask, what's so special about this 21-year-old when there are hundreds of students passing out from various IITs and joining big companies like Google?

A crorepati who lives in a hut!

His story is an inspiration for millions. A self-made entrepreneur, his mission is to help the poor through job creation. E Sarathbabu hit the headlines after he rejected several high profile job offers from various MNCs after he passed out of IIM, Ahmedabad two years ago.

Heroes of Medicine

Shortly after 5 a.m., Teri Majewski marches purposefully into Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago. Strongly built and fit looking, the 34-year-old mother of two young children seems too healthy to be in a hospital.

A girl's pioneering vision for rural BPOs

It was just one of those speeches that Prof Ashok Jhunjhunwala of Indian Institute of Technology, Madras made in Delhi to 'inspire' India's youth. He was speaking about the big employment opportunities that the business process outsourcing industry has created in urban India. His poser: Why not have such BPOs in rural India, too?