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The Bell Bajao! Video contest

January 17, 2012BreakthroughContests, Events1

  In the new year Breakthrough is happy to present our latest contest. What do you have to do? Interpret the The Bell Bajao video contest concept through a 5 sec video and send us your masterpiece! Our team will piece it together and release the final video at the end of the month. The [...]

And the doodle award goes to…

December 13, 2011BreakthroughContests0

This month, Youth Ki Awaaz and Bell Bajao held a doodle making contest based on the theme “gender abuse and domestic violence” and we received dozens of inspiring and beautiful entries. A BIG thank you to everyone who submitted for sharing their artistic talents with us!  Without further delay, here is the winner of a Lecoanet [...]

Congratulations to our #Rewrite the Ending contest winner, Purva Dandona!

November 30, 2011BreakthroughContests1

This week, Breakthrough is excited to announce the winners of our #Rewrite the Ending, fiction (re)writing competition! Applause to all of those who submitted. The sheer talent and creativity of all of the entries made picking just three a difficult task for our staff! Congratulations to the winner of our full entry #Rewrite prompt, Purva [...]

#Rewrite the Ending Contest Facebook Winner!

November 29, 2011BreakthroughContests1

This week, Breakthrough is excited to announce the winners of our #Rewrite the Ending, fiction (re)writing competition! Applause to all of those who submitted. The sheer talent and creativity of all of the entries made picking just three a difficult task for our staff! Today, we’re delighted to announce the Facebook winner and two runners-up: [...]

Drum roll, please! The winners of our #Rewrite the Ending contest…

November 28, 2011BreakthroughContests1

This week, Breakthrough is excited to announce the winners of our #Rewrite the Ending, fiction (re)writing competition! Applause to all of those who submitted. The sheer talent and creativity of all of the entries made picking just three a difficult task for our staff! Today, we’re delighted to announce the Twitter winner and two runners-up: [...]

We exist. Therefore, we share.

This week was Social Media Day, celebrating the evolution of internet most significantly brought about by the revolutionary changes that social media has made in our personal and professional lives. We asked our fans on Facebook & Twitter to share stories of how social media has made a difference in their lives and in particular [...]

Marji, my role model

October 22, 2010Breakthroughblog, Contests0

Read Makepeace’s entry for Women’s Web’s ‘My Favourite Female’ contest, where she writes about a female “fictional” character who inspired her to be herself and beyond the convention.

Photography contest nominee – Saurabh Goenka

October 5, 2009adminContests0

The everlasting smile of a woman’s soul seems to be a common theme for the photographers who set out to capture an image of an independent woman. This photo is by Saurabh Goenka. Photo description – “Nobody can take away your freedom to smile. Women symbolize strength in the face of every adversity. This is [...]

Photography contest nominee – Tusha Bhatia

October 5, 2009adminblog, Contests1

The many faces of hard work, struggle, the many pursuits through hot and cold weather, a fragile body in a crowded train or a worried look on a silent journey – are all faces of woman’s freedom and independence, captured aptly by Tusha Bhatia in this photograph taken in a ladies compartment of a Mumbai [...]

Photography contest nominee – Ritumbra Manuvi

September 29, 2009adminblog, Contests0

This photograph is submitted by Ritumbra Manuvi. This is Ritumbra’s image of freedom and equality of women. In the photo – The women who witnessed the miseries inflicted on their Tibetan men, find their way out in Dickey Larso Tibetan Settlement at Kushinagra District of Bangalore 5 hours away from Bangalore. You can also send [...]