Alok Pandey With Inputs From Haribansh Sharma

A passionate footballer at 17, Sunita Kumari, who lives in a village outside of Ranchi, was recently the youngest speaker in Denmark amid accomplished women footballers from around the world. She plays forward at an attacking position which resonates with her attitude in life. In 2010, Sunita joined a football academy and educational facility near ...

Prem Dayamani, a villager living 30 km from Ranchi, had an average income of Rs 27 a day last year. That’s Rs 5 less than the minimum cost of living in rural areas, which, the Planning Commission said in 2014, was Rs 32 a day. Even so, part of the payment was only on paper. Last year, she got nothing. “I got last year’s money this year. Had I...

Within their modest two room house in Jharkhand's capital Ranchi, it is a normal, playful childhood for eight-year-old Anjali and her 20-month-old brother Keshav. It is when Anajli steps out for school each day that the problems take over.

14-year-old Kusum Kumari is busy clicking photos of her village in Jharkhand, which the ace footballer plans to put up on the Wikipedia page for Hutup, the village made famous by its girl footballers.

In Jharkhand, a girl belonging to a very poor family of construction labourers, has secured the ninth position in the Class 12 examinations for the state board.

A passionate footballer at 17, Sunita Kumari, who lives in a village outside of Ranchi, was recently the youngest speaker in Denmark amid accomplished women footballers from around the world. She plays forward at an attacking position which resonates with her attitude in life. In 2010, Sunita joined a football academy and educational facility near ...

Prem Dayamani, a villager living 30 km from Ranchi, had an average income of Rs 27 a day last year. That’s Rs 5 less than the minimum cost of living in rural areas, which, the Planning Commission said in 2014, was Rs 32 a day. Even so, part of the payment was only on paper. Last year, she got nothing. “I got last year’s money this year. Had I...

Within their modest two room house in Jharkhand's capital Ranchi, it is a normal, playful childhood for eight-year-old Anjali and her 20-month-old brother Keshav. It is when Anajli steps out for school each day that the problems take over.

14-year-old Kusum Kumari is busy clicking photos of her village in Jharkhand, which the ace footballer plans to put up on the Wikipedia page for Hutup, the village made famous by its girl footballers.

In Jharkhand, a girl belonging to a very poor family of construction labourers, has secured the ninth position in the Class 12 examinations for the state board.