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Orthopaedic does free surgeries for poor

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Coimbatore: Unlike most other social workers who have chosen to do service for a living, this 42-year-old orthopaedic surgeon has come to the limelight in Coimbatore doing surgeries free for patients

From ragpickers to waste managers

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For 28-year-old Durai in Chennai, it was a daily struggle to feed his family. Besides rummaging through the huge mounds of waste in the corporation dump yard to pick up recyclable stuff and earn a liv

Igniting minds of jailbirds

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Maria Selvi Dasan has been visiting the Coimbatore central prison for the last 12 years. She meets a large group of her ‘family’ there every week and prays for their well-being.

Surprised? She visit

Love is Joyce’s key to change

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What Joyce Jayaseelan has come to learn in her 30- odd years as a family counsellor is that tenderness will take you far, for, those who are hardest to love are the ones who need it the most.

It is

Rahul Dravid bats for a cause

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Cricketer Rahul Dravid inaugurated the 20th anniversary celebrations of Youth Club of Mysore Zoo, here on Sunday.

He said he has been visiting the zoo since he was seven years old along with his fat

She lends ‘honour’ to unclaimed bodies

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Neila, 50, has been doing yeoman service by burying unclaimed bodies from government hospitals for almost eight years.

In 2004, Neila, dejected and isolated over domestic problems, wanted to do good

Rotarians boost cancer facility

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The General Hospital, which is basking in a new image with a slew of renovation projects, is set to become a relief point for cancer patients, as a project is in the pipeline to give the cancer care s

Mentally ill get a saviour in Mohamed Rafi

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Whenever Mohamed Rafi sees mentally ill persons wandering in the streets, he tells them, “Come with me. I will get you food.

” He then takes them to a nearby hotel, gets them food and admits them to

Students bring smiles, financial assistance

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A group of students of institute of Road & Transport Technology, Erode, visited an old age home and found that the home needed money to shift their premises.

The students organised a grand charity s

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.