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Meet the New Gen do gooders who don't wear khadi, run NGOs, carry jholas or protest banners

Youngsters who are channelling their energies and education into making life meaningful for the masses.

They don't run NGOs, wear khadi or carry jholas and protest banners. The only thing that drives them is wanting to make a difference to society. Which is why they have harnessed their resources and their education to find simple solutions to everyday problems and change millions of lives. There's Harvard graduate Gitika Srivastava, who founded Navya Network to help cancer patients access expert opinion and seek treatment accordingly. Warwick graduate Ankit Agarwal teamed up with his friend Karan Rastogi in Kanpur and found a way to process 800 kg of waste flowers into incense sticks and vermicompost, a venture they call Help Us Green.

IIM A graduate Sucharita Mukherjee likewise teamed up with rural management graduate Puneet Gupta to

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