Responsible Stars

How much does it cost to feed a hungry person? How much does it cost to wrap him/her with blanket on a cold winter evening? How much does it cost to help a blind person cross the road? How much does it cost to donate clothes for the children lying on the footpath semi-naked?...

“A nation is advanced in proportion as education and intelligence spread among the masses. If we are to rise again, we shall have to… spread education among the masses,” – Swami Vivekananda November 11 is celebrated as National Education Day every year to mark the birth anniversary of independent India’s first Education Minister Maulana Abul...

Cancer. The physical pain and mental fear associated with the disease is enough to shatter the self-confidence of any person and make them feel, ‘I am going to die’. To make the situation even worse comes the loss of hair and even baldness which often happens as a side effect of the treatment. Powerful...

At a time when the world is battling a gigantic issue of plastic pollution, a ‘green initiative’ started by a few women from a remote village in West Bengal’s Bankura district is surely an inspiring move! Supporting this eco-friendly initiative is a group of kind hearted souls from the neighbouring district of Jhargram. Handmade bags...

‘Keep our surroundings clean’, ‘Do not throw waste on the streets’, ‘Please use the public dustbins while discarding food wrappers and bottles while traveling’— these may sound like environmental awareness advertisements by the municipality which a lot of us often tend to ignore. However, there are some people who not only practice the same but...

Let’s celebrate the festival of lights Diwali but a little responsibly. Let’s all burst out together in laughter instead of bursting fire crackers which contribute to noise as well as environmental pollution. Let’s decorate our homes, schools, colleges, hospitals and workplaces with beautiful rangolis made with organic colours and flowers only, let’s buy diyas...

The foremost handy solution recommended by doctors in cases like vomiting or loose motion is Oral rehydration solution (ORS). Even though ORS has become a part of our life, a lot of us unfortunately do not know about the person who proved its effectiveness in front of the world by saving millions of lives and...

Reduce, reuse, recycle— these three ‘R’s are extremely important when it comes to protecting our environment. We discuss, talk and write about these but there are a handful of responsible people, who actually practice the same. Tanushree Ghosh, resident of West Bengal’s Madhyamgram (near Kolkata) has been actively trying to spread the message that...

“One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between man and nature shall not be broken” — Leo Tolstoy Our connection with nature is extremely crucial for human survival. To begin with, nature provides the oxygen which we inhale every second to survive. We get every necessity for survival from nature be it...

Film stars in the Southern states of India not only have a large and devoted following but also do tremendous amount of charity work alongside their acting work. 1. Chiranjeevi Chiranjeevi first laid the foundation of the Chiranjeevi Charitable Trust (CCT) in 1998, which works with eye banks and blood banks. The actor himself is a...

Lata Mangeshkar, the legendary singer breathed her last on Sunday, Feb 6th 2022, after a prolonged illness at the age of 92. The Bharat Ratna Awardee singer was muse to some of the country’s greatest music composers. Talking about his inspiration for making music, the celebrated music composer S.D. Burman had once allegedly said,...

It is so easy to believe ‘it wasn’t meant to happen’, if you do not get the desired results even after putting in a lot of honest hard work for the 4th or the 5th time. It is easy to feel that it was all for vain and feel disheartened over not being successful....