1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (774+ words) When 71-year-old Ashok Bahar walked out of his NEET UG 2026 examination centre in Lucknow on 3 May, he looked unlike most candidates around him. Dressed in a simple kurta-pyjama and carrying a water bottle along with his question paper, Bahar quietly…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (334+ words) At 73 in Mumbai, Chandraprabha Parihar was not starting anew but returning to crochet, a lifelong passion that had waited through years of family responsibilities. She learnt crochet many years ago. “Life took over,” she says. Family responsibilities came first, and…...

3+ mon, 2+ day ago  (416+ words) In Marsavalli village in Maharashtra’s Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar district, an 86-year-old woman recently sat on a wooden bench in a classroom, holding a pencil with careful attention, as she attempted a literacy test under the ULLAS Nav Bharat Saaksharta Karyakram....

5+ mon, 1+ day ago  (507+ words) At 62, Shyy Sachdev shows that strength can be chosen at any age — and that it is never too late to reclaim your life and begin again. Many of us are taught that age comes with limits, that there’s a right…...