Stories from India

Sudeepto has spent his teenage years creating audio books for blind children. Read more about how Sudeepto is spreading change.

It is not everyday you hear about young children questioning the status quo, revolutionizing the automobile industry, or filing for patents at age 13. But they’re out there, and this is the story of one. Today, Param Jaggi is a 23-year-old entrepreneur and social activist. He is the founder of Hatch...

Azmayeen has been using technology to give people information since the 5th Grade. Read the story of Azmayeen, an Ashoka Youth Venturer.

Sadat is a serial entrepreneur. He uses film, technology and coffee to deliverer social change in his community. Read more.

Mithela's organisation Power to Bloom provides a forum for teenagers to talk about what they are feeling. Read more.

Through starting youth clubs in her community Moni Begum has stopped over 200 child marriages. Read more to find out about Ashoka's Youth Venture program and how to apply.

Ashwini (16) and Priya (17) were passionate about singing and acting, but they, like other young people they knew, had few spaces to perform. Together they founded Jazba, a local, youth-run “India’s Got Talent” to give young people a space to perform where all proceeds go to a hand-picked local...

After Meghla was almost married at the age of 13 she has set out to make sure that no other child has to be married. Read on for the story of Meghla.

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Computer programming is a skill that changes our lives everyday. Shawon wants to make sure it is skill accessible to Bangla speakers. Read his story here.