Welcome to Smile India, hosted by the Media Consultant Shifa Maitra, where you get positive and uplifting news on India. Shifa shares the profile of people and institutions that are doing great work in the nation-building. The podcast also sheds light on interesting rituals and practices that help us thrive. Our host gives some tips that can help you to do your bit for India. This is the kind of news that makes you feel good about your country and is guaranteed to make you smile. Tune in to the new episodes every Thursday.
Gender neutral uniforms
A school in Ernakulam introduced gender neutral uniforms. We also tell you about an MBA Chaiwala who flunked his CAT exams but earns in crores today! Listen in on Smile India!Do follow Shifa Maitra's page "Good News Indians" on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GoodNewsIndians/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Instagram handle: https://www.instagram.com/shifamaitra/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/ShifaMaitra?s=09You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app.You can check out our website at http://www.ivmpodcasts.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
12/2/2021 • 5 minutes, 32 seconds
When love conquers all
Today on Smile India get to know about a HIV positive couple from Delhi who believe in truly living in the moment. Also get to know about eco warrior Janak Palta who helps people live a sustainable life.Do follow Shifa Maitra's page "Good News Indians" on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GoodNewsIndians/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Instagram handle: https://www.instagram.com/shifamaitra/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Twitter handle:https://twitter.com/ShifaMaitra?s=09You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app.You can check out our website at http://www.ivmpodcasts.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
11/25/2021 • 6 minutes, 46 seconds
Pure pani in Puri
Today on Smile India get to know how a city in India gets clean filtered water from the Municipal Corporation round the clock. Also get to know of a Mumbai couple who set up a flourishing business in their 80s! Do follow Shifa Maitra's page "Good News Indians" on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/GoodNewsIndians/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Instagram handle: https://www.instagram.com/shifamaitra/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/ShifaMaitra?s=09You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app.You can check out our website at http://www.ivmpodcasts.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
11/18/2021 • 5 minutes, 20 seconds
Saving the Single Screen Theaters
Today, on Smile India get to know about Pagalor Pathshala – a Kolkata based NGO that’s trying to help single screen cinema halls survive by going there to watch films regularly! We also tell you about the cafe in Bangalore that has special innovations for it’s waiters, who are disabled and delightful.Do follow Shifa Maitra's page "Good News Indians" on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GoodNewsIndians/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Instagram handle: https://www.instagram.com/shifamaitra/ Follow Shifa Maitra on her Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/ShifaMaitra?s=09You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/io, or any other podcast app.You can check out our website at http://www.ivmpodcasts.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
11/11/2021 • 5 minutes, 22 seconds
Lighting Up Diwali for Orphans
Today, on Smile India, hear the story of Vimal from Kerela, who celebrated Diwali by sponsoring 4 orphans' education including other expenses. Vimal is an orphan too and grew up in the same orphanage.Shifa also tells us about an old man who lived in an old age home in Baroda. He saved a little each month and on Diwali, distributed boxes of sweets to people less fortunate than him.Do follow Shifa Maitra's page "Good News Indians" on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GoodNewsIndians/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Instagram handle: https://www.instagram.com/shifamaitra/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/ShifaMaitra?s=09You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios,or any other podcast app.You can check out our website at http://www.ivmpodcasts.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
11/4/2021 • 7 minutes, 23 seconds
Home Cooked Meal for Just ₹5
Today, on Smile India get to know about Nilanjana Chatterjee, who showed bravery and risked her life to save an unknown woman's life.We also tell you about the place in Noida where you can get a great home cooked meal for just 5 rupees.Do follow Shifa Maitra's page "Good News Indians" on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/GoodNewsIndians/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Instagram handle: https://www.instagram.com/shifamaitra/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Twitter handle:https://twitter.com/ShifaMaitra?s=09You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app.You can check out our website at http://www.ivmpodcasts.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
10/28/2021 • 5 minutes, 58 seconds
Trust Shops Exist!
Today, on Smile India get to know about shops without shopkeepers in Mizoram. Based on a price list people take what they want and leave money in a box on the counter. Also, get to know about an unlettered Padma Shri Award Winner, Bhuri Bai who painted in stones as a construction labourer before she got discovered.Do follow Shifa Maitra's page "Good News Indians" on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/GoodNewsIndians/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Instagram handle: https://www.instagram.com/shifamaitra/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/ShifaMaitra?s=09You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app.You can check out our website at http://www.ivmpodcasts.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
10/21/2021 • 6 minutes, 10 seconds
A Call to Save a Life
Today, on Smile India get to know about Dr. Aparna Hegde whose NGO, ARMMAN calls pregnant women and new mothers and gives free counselling in their mother tongue...selflessly saving lives. Shifa also tells you about the youngster from Bhilwara, Rajasthan who gave up a cushy life abroad to come serve the nation.Do follow Shifa Maitra's page "Good News Indians" on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/GoodNewsIndians/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Instagram handle: https://www.instagram.com/shifamaitra/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/ShifaMaitra?s=09You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app.You can check out our website at http://www.ivmpodcasts.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
10/14/2021 • 7 minutes, 15 seconds
Making Furniture with Empty Tetra Packs
On Smile India, find out how Monisha from Mumbai uses empty cartons of tetra packs to create durable furniture for schools.Also, find out about how a Mangalore couple are successfully unschooling their twins.Do follow Shifa Maitra's page "Good News Indians" on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/GoodNewsIndians/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Instagram handle: https://www.instagram.com/shifamaitra/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/ShifaMaitra?s=09You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app.You can check out our website at http://www.ivmpodcasts.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
10/7/2021 • 8 minutes, 25 seconds
From Madhya Pradesh to Paris Fashion Week
Today, on Smile India we tell you about Asrar Usmani from Bangalore who commits daring acts to save animals in danger. We also talk about designer Vaishali Shadungle who made it from Vidisha in Madhya Pradesh to the Paris Fashion Week purely on grit.Do follow Shifa Maitra's page "Good News Indians" on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/GoodNewsIndians/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Instagram handle: https://www.instagram.com/shifamaitra/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/ShifaMaitra?s=09You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app.You can check out our website at http://www.ivmpodcasts.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
9/30/2021 • 7 minutes, 32 seconds
Chuck Your Plate!
Today, on Smile India get to know about bio-degradable crockery made from surgarcane waste in Ayodhya. We also tell you about the lady in Kolkata who is protecting the Rabindra Sarovar Lake for the last 20 years.Do follow Shifa Maitra's page "Good News Indians" on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/GoodNewsIndians/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Instagram handle: https://www.instagram.com/shifamaitra/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/ShifaMaitra?s=09You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app.You can check out our website at http://www.ivmpodcasts.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
9/23/2021 • 6 minutes, 9 seconds
Carrying Your Home With You
Today on Smile India, get to know how villagers from Nagaland carried a home on foot to help one of their own. Also get to know about the Mumbaikar who builds food forests for the needy.Do follow Shifa Maitra's page "Good News Indians" on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GoodNewsIndians/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Instagram handle: https://www.instagram.com/shifamaitra/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/ShifaMaitra?s=09You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app.You can check out our website at http://www.ivmpodcasts.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
9/16/2021 • 6 minutes, 53 seconds
House Of Uncommons
Today, Shifa Maitra tells us about Queer Bagh in Rajpipla where members of the LGBT community live together in a palace! Shifa also tell you about a music therapist who helps cancer patients.Do follow Shifa Maitra's page "Good News Indians" on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/GoodNewsIndians/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Instagram handle: https://www.instagram.com/shifamaitra/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/ShifaMaitra?s=09You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app.You can check out our website at http://www.ivmpodcasts.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
9/9/2021 • 6 minutes, 51 seconds
The Vet We Love
Today on Smile India, we tell you about Meril Raj from Madurai who travels by bus and not his own bike. Because a squirrel family have made his bike their home! We also tell you about how a constable in the Delhi Police is now an IPS Officer.Do follow Shifa Maitra's page "Good News Indians" on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/GoodNewsIndians/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Instagram handle: https://www.instagram.com/shifamaitra/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/ShifaMaitra?s=09You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app.You can check out our website at http://www.ivmpodcasts.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
9/2/2021 • 5 minutes, 51 seconds
Creating Indian Community Cookbooks
Today on Smile India, Shifa Maitra tells you about how 3 college students from Pune have collected lost recipes from pan India and uploaded them on the web for all to use. We also tell you about a young environmentalist in Surat who makes bricks out of discarded PPE kits.Do follow Shifa Maitra's page "Good News Indians" on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/GoodNewsIndians/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Instagram handle: https://www.instagram.com/shifamaitra/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/ShifaMaitra?s=09You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app.You can check out our website at http://www.ivmpodcasts.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
8/26/2021 • 6 minutes, 23 seconds
Tea For Travel
Today on Smile India, Shifa Maitra tells us about a couple who saves money from their tea stall earnings and have traveled to 16 nations so far! Also, get to know how a dancing competition helped an athlete get to the Olympics!Do follow Shifa Maitra's page "Good News Indians" on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/GoodNewsIndians/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Instagram handle: https://www.instagram.com/shifamaitra/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/ShifaMaitra?s=09You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app.You can check out our website at http://www.ivmpodcasts.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
8/19/2021 • 6 minutes, 24 seconds
From Watchman to IITian
Today on Smile India, Shifa Maitra tells us about Poly Pattnaik, a school principal in Bhubaneswar. She started this late school because as a child she hated having to wake up early for class. Also, get to know about a night watchman who is today an IIT professor.Do follow Shifa Maitra's page "Good News Indians" on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/GoodNewsIndians/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Instagram handle: https://www.instagram.com/shifamaitra/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/ShifaMaitra?s=09You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app.You can check out our website at http://www.ivmpodcasts.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
8/12/2021 • 6 minutes, 6 seconds
Conductor Turns Writer
Today, on Smile india we tell you about R S Ranju who is a bus conductor by day and detective stories writer by night! Also get to know about the mother who is helping specially abled youngsters become entrepreneurs.Do follow Shifa Maitra's page "Good News Indians" on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/GoodNewsIndians/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Instagram handle: https://www.instagram.com/shifamaitra/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/ShifaMaitra?s=09You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app.You can check out our website at http://www.ivmpodcasts.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
8/5/2021 • 6 minutes, 17 seconds
Spoons You Must Eat!
Today, on Smile India we tell you about Bakeys edible cutlery that's made of millets and is good for both you and the envoirnment. We also talk about Amey Hete, a Mumbai based businessman who paid 1 lakh 20 thousand for a dozen of mangoes so that the seller (a young girl) could get herself a smartphone and a chance to study online.Do follow Shifa Maitra's page "Good News Indians" on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/GoodNewsIndians/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Instagram handle: https://www.instagram.com/shifamaitra/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/ShifaMaitra?s=09You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app.You can check out our website at http://www.ivmpodcasts.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
7/29/2021 • 7 minutes, 12 seconds
Whistle Language
Today on Smile India, we tell you about a village in Meghalaya where their language involves whistling!We also talk about a youngster from Noida who is walking across the country for fun!Do follow Shifa Maitra's page "Good News Indians" on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/GoodNewsIndians/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Instagram handle: https://www.instagram.com/shifamaitra/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/ShifaMaitra?s=09You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app.You can check out our website at http://www.ivmpodcasts.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
7/22/2021 • 5 minutes, 15 seconds
Using Walls as Blackboards
Today, on Smile India get to know how social worker Ashok Kurmi dressed up as Superman, Mickey Mouse and Doremon to teach slum children how to maintain social distancing and wear masks. We also talk about green sole that recycles old shoes into vegan footwear that saves lives in villages.Do follow Shifa Maitra's page "Good News Indians" on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/GoodNewsIndians/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Instagram handle: https://www.instagram.com/shifamaitra/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/ShifaMaitra?s=09You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app.You can check out our website at http://www.ivmpodcasts.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
7/15/2021 • 5 minutes, 55 seconds
When a Celebrity Calls Patients!
Today on Smile India, we tell you about an Assamese folk singer who took to calling covid patients to cheer them up with songs. We also tell you about the world’s largest cricket museum that is in Pune. Also, get to know about the successful doctor from New York who returned to his hometown Amritsar to help in the covid crisis.Do follow Shifa Maitra's page "Good News Indians" on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GoodNewsIndians/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Instagram handle: https://www.instagram.com/shifamaitra/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/ShifaMaitra?s=09You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app.You can check out our website at http://www.ivmpodcasts.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
7/8/2021 • 6 minutes, 8 seconds
Learn From Students
On this episode of Smile India, get to know how a group of students decided to raise funds for the helpers on their school busses and were able to raise 62 lakhs in a month! Shifa also tells you how Kevin Jacob, an engineering student has created a mask with a mike so doctors don't have to keep screaming to be heard by covid patients.Do follow Shifa Maitra's page "Good News Indians" on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/GoodNewsIndians/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Instagram handle: @shifamaitrahttps://www.instagram.com/shifamaitra/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Twitter handle: @ShifaMaitrahttps://twitter.com/ShifaMaitra?s=09You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app.You can check out our website at http://www.ivmpodcasts.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
7/1/2021 • 6 minutes, 19 seconds
Bike Becomes Ambulance
In this episode of Smile India, we get to know about Abdul Karimul Haque, who saved over 4000 lives by using his bike as an ambulance across 20 villages in West Bengal. Also get to know, how an engineer from Saharanpur is making crores and helping grocery shop owners with his new software. Lastly, a nurse who learnt sign language only to communicate with a differently abled covid patient.Do follow Shifa Maitra's page "Good News Indians" on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/GoodNewsIndians/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Instagram handle: @shifamaitra(https://www.instagram.com/shifamaitra/)Follow Shifa Maitra on her Twitter handle: @ShifaMaitra(https://twitter.com/ShifaMaitra?s=09)You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app.You can check out our website at http://www.ivmpodcasts.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
6/24/2021 • 4 minutes, 52 seconds
Tea Bag < Bagless Tea
For the first time in India these are being made in assam so you drink tea without plastic! Shifa also tells you about some unusual musems pan India and about a young boy who walked 22 kms each day from his village to Pune so he could study.You can follow Shifa Maitra's page "Good News Indians" on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/GoodNewsIndians/Follow Shifa Maitra on her Instagram handle: @shifamaitra(https://www.instagram.com/shifamaitra/)Follow Shifa Maitra on Twitter: @ShifaMaitra(https://twitter.com/ShifaMaitra?s=09)You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app.You can check out our website at http://www.ivmpodcasts.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
6/17/2021 • 5 minutes, 44 seconds
Smile India - English: Season 2 Announcement
Season 2 Announcement You can follow Shifa Maitra's page "Good News Indians" on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/GoodNewsIndians/You can follow Shifa Maitra on her Instagram handle: @shifamaitra(https://www.instagram.com/shifamaitra/)You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app.You can check out our website at http://www.ivmpodcasts.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
