1. When a 65-year-old man’s typewriter was destroyed by an angry cop and the internet got him a new one.
Photographer Ashutosh Tripathi shared the story on Facebook, and the post quickly went viral. Within just a few hours of the story being uploaded, the district magistrate and the senior superintendent of police met the man at his residence and handed him a brand new typewriter.
2. When one tweet helped reunite three abandoned children with their mother.
Journalist Abhishek Shukla noticed three children sitting at the New Delhi railway station unsupervised and immediately tweeted, asking people for help.
4. When a 15-year-old student used social media to raise ₹10 lakhs for a charity.
5. When journalist Manju Latha Kalanidhi came up with the Rice Bucket Challenge, which encourages people to donate a bucket/bowl of rice to someone in need.
6. When a Chennai rapper used Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda” to protest Unilever dumping toxic waste in Kodaikanal and the internet took notice.
7. When StoryPick teamed up with Ketto to raise money for a 9-year-old who had been raped and was in need of medical treatment.
8. When people came together in support of students who had been beaten and arrested for protesting at a university's inaction in a sexual assault case.
9. And literally anything that Sushma Swaraj does.
