Ganesh Kale took three dozen exams but was robbed of a fair shot because of corruption. So he tried to take his life.


Ganesh Kale took three dozen exams but was robbed of a fair shot because of corruption. So he tried to take his life.

Rafiq Tamboli’s wife continues to search for answers two years after her truck driver husband was stopped by vigilantes.
![Rafiq's picture that his wife Reshma still carries with her in her purse [Parth MN/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/IMG_20230721_145850-1689932637.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Afan Abdul Ansari dies and companion Nasir Hussain battles for his life after attack by cow vigilantes in Maharashtra.

Ram Navami festival was the latest concerted attempt to ignite religious tensions in India’s richest state.

Foundation run by Kunda Bachhav and Vaishali Bhamre in Maharashtra’s Nashik helps over 80 poor girls continue studies.

Predominantly lower middle class stars lost their limelight exactly how they had earned it: suddenly and unexpectedly.
![Homemaker Sangita Gaikwad had more than 100,000 followers on TikTok [Courtesy of Sangita Gaikwad]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Screenshot_20210618-220136__01-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
More than 1,200 girls in Rajasthan start a movement against child marriages, which spiked during the COVID pandemic.
![Priyanka Berwa convinced her parents to put off her marriage and started a movement [Devendra Kumar Sharma/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Priynka-02.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
With polls under way, many left workers make the ideological shift to right-wing party, which has never ruled the state.
![A BJP supporter with his body painted gestures during an election rally addressed by India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Kolkata [Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/000_94G7RY.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
As protest against farm laws enters 100th day, at least 248 farmers have died on New Delhi’s borders, organisers say.
![Farmers attend a rally against farm laws in Barnala in the northern state of Punjab [File: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2021-02-21T132026Z_24342190_RC21XL9UJ9CW_RTRMADP_3_INDIA-FARMS-PROTESTS.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Khaana Chahiye is a citizens’ initiative to ensure much of Mumbai’s workforce does not go hungry during lockdown.
![Khaana Chahiye [Parth M.N./Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/39f5530087e847939a0c93b1881bd035_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)