Mann Ki Baat · 29 October 2023
Episode 106 featured two Tamil writers preserving and connecting India's literatures, Special Olympics medal winners with inspiring stories, and an Assam school where pupils collect and recycle plastic waste.
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Person · Tamil Nadu
A Tamil writer whose 16-year project Knit India Through Literature brought together writing from 18 Indian languages. She travelled the country interviewing writers and poets and published four large volumes in Tamil and English.
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Person · Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu
A researcher who for 40 years has travelled across Tamil Nadu recording its folk storytelling traditions and art forms, writing about 100 books. He has also studied temple culture and leather puppetry.
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Person · Haryana
A golfer with autism who won gold at the 2023 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Berlin. His family has taken up golf alongside him.
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Person · Puducherry
A 16-year-old athlete who won four medals at the 2023 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Berlin.
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Person · Goa
A powerlifter who won four medals, two of them gold, at the 2023 Special Olympics World Summer Games, despite losing her mother at nine.
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Person · Durg, Chhattisgarh
A powerlifter who won three gold medals and a silver at the 2023 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Berlin.
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Person · Jharkhand
A cyclist from a family of modest means who won two medals at the 2023 Special Olympics World Summer Games, refusing to let poverty stand in her way.
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Group · Kamrup Metropolitan, Assam
A school where pupils bring plastic waste every week, which is turned into eco-friendly bricks and key rings. Children learn to make products from recycled plastic as part of their education.
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