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23 Oct

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1/ The first woman officer of the Indian Air Force (IAF), Wing Commander (retd) Ramanan passed away on Sunday at the age of 96 in Bengaluru. 👇

2/ "For quite some years, I was IAF's only lady officer. There may have been only a dozen women officers in the army & navy together. Initially, I was scared, but I was brave and thought to myself, I could face anything", recalled Ramanan in a 2018 interview to the Devi Project.

3/ A breaker of glass ceilings in the truest sense, Ramanan had more than one ‘first’ to her credit. She was not only the first woman to wear saree as uniform, she also designed the uniform.

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21 Oct

(1/9) 39-year-old Baljinder Singh from Kokri Phula Singh village in Moga district, Punjab, is the sole bread-winner of the family.

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(2/9) A milk supplier, he's seen his business grow over 8 years, thanks to the efforts of @DanoneIndia's AcadeMilk program -- a significant step towards empowering dairy farmers in Punjab.

(3/9) Under this program, Danone India has been training these farmers to sustainably increase productivity and improve the quality of the milk produced. This milk is a key ingredient for Danone products.

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9 Sep

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1/ IAS officer Ramesh Gholap (DC, Koderma) was out distributing blankets to the poor when he saw a frail little girl standing in line. On enquiry, he found out that the girl was 11-year-old Sapna whose parents had died recently, leaving her with nowhere to go.

2/ Acting out of instinct, Ramesh drove Sapna to the nearest Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya, registering himself as her guardian. He also asked the officials of social security departments to ensure Sapna gets Rs 2,000 every month, and a tutor takes care of her studies.

3/ Each time the IAS officer meets such children, his memories take him miles away - to Mahagaon in Maharashtra's Solapur district, where he sold bangles along with his mother after his father’s death. Gholap couldn’t do much else because of his polio-stricken leg.

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27 Jul

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#DeathAnniversary #Thread 👇
1/ Among the menagerie of animals who call Rashtrapati Bhavan home is a deer called Tipu who was born with a defect in his foot.

Few know that, during his time as President, Dr Kalam oversaw the surgery that set Tipu's foot right.

2/ When Tipu's mother refused to accept him, Kalam also adopted him and for nine months, fed him milk from a bottle.

And Tipu was not the only case. A horse, belonging to Indian Army's only cavalry division (the 61st Cavalry), was operated for cataract inside Rashtrapati Bhavan.

3/ Hearing of this, a travelling circus camping outside New Delhi sought help from President Kalam for their star attraction, a hippopotamus, who also had cataract. He was also operated upon in Rashtrapati Bhavan.

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17 Jul

#IncredibleIndia #History #Heritage #Thread 👇

1/ If you wish you could capture the wonderful scent of wet earth into a bottle, Kannauj in Uttar Pradesh made that possible a long time ago.

2/ Sometime in the past, the legendary perfumers of ancient Kannauj created a unique scent that would capture the fragrance of earth when first touched by the monsoon rains. Extracted from parched clay and distilled with ancient techniques, it is today known as mitti attar.

3/ Also called itr-e-khaki, mitti attar is made even today in Kannauj’s traditional perfumeries, where sinewy craftsmen tend to fires under ageing copper cauldrons or degs to make this remarkable perfume.

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1 Jul

#DoctorsDay #FrontlineHeroes
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1/ “When we are young, we hear stories of soldiers sacrificing their lives for the countries and working at the forefront. So when a crisis like this came, I knew I had to be among the ones serving the patients,” begins Dr Divya Singh.

2/ A few months ago, Dr Singh, who is an MS in General Surgery, had moved to Djibouti, Africa, along with her husband who works with the Indian Foreign Services.

But on hearing about the COVID-19 pandemic, she decided to return to India anticipating an increased need for doctors

3/ “I returned to India in March when the number of positive cases was just about under 400. Within a week, I received a request for help from a volunteer group based in Mumbai. They required medical professionals to help with the pandemic surveillance Worli and Dharavi slums."

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