Having seen the power of social media in Manipur and Assam, BJP is going to replicate the model in Nagaland, Tripura, Mizoram and Meghalaya, which go to the polls in 2018.
Tribal women in Chhattisgarh’s Surguja district are churning out thousands of sanitary pads every month, earning money and helping girls go back to school.
Mamtaz Begum (13) would have been married off to a man thrice her age, if it were not Illias Rahman Sarkar who campaigned on Facebook to stop the wedding.
Over one lakh villages in India are open defecation free, but none must have hit upon an idea as novel as Kapasi village in Balod district of Chhattisgarh.
YouTube provides just the platform they need to build their audience and enhance their market value. And the video uploading service is completely free!
Afzal Khan posted a video blasting the police for reducing the lunch allowance for policemen on election duty in Uttar Pradesh from Rs 1,500 to Rs 150.
Trading on online classifieds platforms requires little investment, but the returns are good enough to make a qualitative difference to entrepreneurs’ lives.