Nasar Thootha’s charity gives out once-used wedding attires donated by privileged families to women of limited means.
![Nasar Thootha's bank has so far helped more than 260 underprivileged brides with free outfits for the most important day of their lives [Courtesy: Nasar Thootha]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/17.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Nasar Thootha’s charity gives out once-used wedding attires donated by privileged families to women of limited means.
![Nasar Thootha's bank has so far helped more than 260 underprivileged brides with free outfits for the most important day of their lives [Courtesy: Nasar Thootha]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/17.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Self-taught architect Govindan Gopalakrishnan claims to have built more than 100 mosques, four churches and a temple.
![After devoting a lifetime to building shrines, Gopalakrishnan says he still has one unfulfilled task: founding a religious thoughts school [Courtesy of Govindan Gopalakrishnan]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/6b15510b-24fd-4ce3-9d3a-7b5e1c2101e3-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
In a career spanning 30 years, Anil Kumar Chowhan has written Quranic verses on walls of over 200 mosques across India.
![Anil Kumar Chowhan working at a mosque [Courtesy of Anil Kumar Chowhan]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/IMG-20210617-WA0016.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Cardiologist puts lucrative practice on hold to aid thousands of farmers protesting against farm laws outside New Delhi.
![Singh with protesting farmers at Tikri outside New Delhi [Courtesy: Dr Swaiman Singh]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/8bc69596-a6c2-497b-a034-05bc83c8b238.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Rupjyoti Saikia Gogoi’s initiative not only addresses climate crisis but also helps other women earn their livelihoods.
![Rupjyoti Saikia Gogoi at her loom in Bocha Gaon village in Assam's Golaghat district [Courtesy of Rupjyoti Saikia Gogoi]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/b3584b7c-c95c-40c8-ae1c-76c5425365f0-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Rakesh Kumar has gone beyond call of duty to help perform last rites of as many as 1,300 coronavirus victims in Delhi.
![Police officer Rakesh Kumar, left, helping families perform the last rites of their loved ones at Lodhi Crematorium in New Delhi [Courtesy of Rakesh Kumar]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2534db4b-3a55-49ad-8e66-1d74b52b8062.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
A family in Delhi grieve the loss of their 29-year-old son who died from COVID-19, leaving a wife and newborn baby.
![Pradeep Gusain, 29, with his wife, Karishma, and his mother, Bimla Devi, before his death from COVID-19 in April [Photo courtesy of the Gusain family]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/9626bc64-1ec5-48b4-ae7a-16ac87dd2085.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Despite having money to pay for treatment, one family struggled to find a hospital bed for their 61-year-old mother.
![Patients suffering from COVID-19 receive treatment at the emergency ward of a hospital in New Delhi, India, on April 29, 2021 [Reuters/Danish Siddiqui]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-04-29T073110Z_417679456_RC2J5N9Y9VFA_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-INDIA.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
With only one oxygen cylinder and no way to afford another, the family of a cancer patient with COVID face hard choices.
![A man waits to refill a medical oxygen cylinder at a charging station on the outskirts of Prayagraj, India, on April 23, 2021 [Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/AP_21113458581926-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
How a culture of extravagance and exploitative practices force brides’ families to spend beyond their means.
![An Indian brass band plays as they accompany a wedding procession in New Delhi [File: Manish Swarup/AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/AP_739287168495-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)