Adolescents

For children of the Kaadar community in the Western Ghats, getting an education means leaving home at the age of six to stay at residential schools. Deep in the jungles of the Western Ghats near Valparai, over a 100 km from Coimbatore, is…

MUMBAI: Monika Mehtu's petite frame gives away little about the feisty 13-year-old hiding inside. Earlier this year, the teenager from the Bhula village of east Singhbhum district in Jharkhand, and six of her friends, prevented the marriage…

She had to quit school five years ago when she was in Class VI to help the family deal with medical expenses of her ailing mother. Seboti Pahariya has to wait till January to rejoin school. The 17-year-old has waited five years already.…

Married girls aged 15-19 years are twice more likely to die during childbirth, UNICEF reports. Sarita, 15, and her friend Mali, 14, are nothing short of stars at the middle school in Punsa village, about 25 km from the steel hub of…

Early in the morning, when most adolescents his age are in deep slumber, 16-year-old Roshan Singh starts pedalling to a nearby field. A tee and shorts and a pair of worn out shoes is all that he carries to warm up and begin his ‘untrained’…

HYDERABAD: For six years, 17-year-old N Mamatha’s world has been limited to the view from her bed: a kitchen nook and the TV set. Barring one-off visits to her physiotherapist or the church, she never leaves the tiny two bedroom flat in a…