An all-women vigilante group captures popular imagination by wielding sticks and taking on villains.
![The Gulabi Gang now boasts of 400,000 members spread across 11 Uttar Pradesh districts [Supplied]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/201422610285372734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
An all-women vigilante group captures popular imagination by wielding sticks and taking on villains.
![The Gulabi Gang now boasts of 400,000 members spread across 11 Uttar Pradesh districts [Supplied]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/201422610285372734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Forced to flee alleged religious persecution, many complain of being treated with suspicion in Hindu-majority India.
![Ramesh Pawar left his job in Pakistan and fled to India some three months ago [Shweta Desai/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/201421065255478734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
College helps to bring electricity to villages around the globe by training poor women to be solar engineers.
![Women solar engineers in each of 43 Least Developed Countries will receive training at the college by 2015 [Shweta Desai]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/2014115101757938580_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)