Mann Ki Baat · 22 February 2026
Episode 131 honoured a Kerala family who donated their baby daughter's organs and people living full lives after transplants, an Odisha farmer's integrated pond farm, and a Thrissur village that grows 570 rice varieties.
2 people · 1 group · 1 place highlighted. Read the official English transcript.
Person · Kerala
Parents from Kerala who lost their daughter, Aalin Sherin Abraham, at just ten months old and, in their grief, chose to donate her organs so other families might be spared the same pain. Aalin is among India's youngest organ donors.
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Group
Three organ recipients whose stories show what donation makes possible: Lakshmi Devi of Delhi trekked 14 km to Kedarnath after a heart transplant, Gaurang Banerjee of West Bengal twice reached Nathu La after a lung transplant, and Ramdev Singh of Sikar excels at sport after a kidney transplant.
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Person · Odisha
A young farmer who, about eight years ago, moved beyond growing paddy with his father. He built a mesh frame over his farm pond for climbing vegetables, planted bananas, guavas and coconuts around it, and raises fish in it. Farmers come from far away to see his model.
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Place · Thrissur district, Kerala
A village in Thrissur district where 570 varieties of rice, including local, herbal and other states' varieties, are grown in a single field, as an effort to preserve India's rice seed heritage.
As described in Mann Ki Baat