Watch a classroom prank gone wrong, a gymnast who nearly gave herself a concussion, find out how Grandma makes shopping easy, take a look at a driver making room for himself and a father's dramatic rescue act.

Here are five videos that will leave you stunned! Watch a man pick a bad walking route, be amazed by a talented forklift operator, check out a new car go out of control, a heavy truck bring down a bridge and a four wheel drive almost skid down a rocky road.

Y! Editor's note: Satyawan Verma is a former Sarpanch of village Mughalpura in Haryana. He was the youngest Sarpanch ever and a Dalit.He is the community correspondent for Video Volunteers. Listen to his heartrending recording of an incident in which a local's hand was chopped off for daring to drink water from the same pot.

Notes from the Video Volunteers team

"The incident of the man's hand being chopped off for drinking water from a pot belonging to an upper caste is infamously known now as the Mirzpur incident. Most times, such cases go unreported. But the mainstream media did pick up on the Mirzpur incident and the culprits are currently in prison. This is an example of media action that led to better representation of otherwise marginalized voices.

See ARTICLE 17 , a campaign launched by Video Volunteers on April 14th, 2012, to urge the National Commission for Schedule Castes, (the government body that is constitutionally appointed to direct and implement the safeguards against

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Much like the cricket team, the changing face of the civil service is best reflected through
some of its women. Who've just cleared the exam and a path, for many in their regions to
be motivated by.

Shena Aggarwal the topper's story from Yamuna Nagar, a town now associated with
Karnam Malleswari has been well told already. She'd got a 305 rank last year and was
mid training in the Indian Revenue Service, when news of her topping came. Her district
otherwise has the second lowest sex-ratio in Haryana.
This blog is about the others as well, from the Andaman to Kashmir.

All India victory lap for the ladies

Shalia Shah, the first woman and second person to clear the UPSC from the Andaman & Nicobar Islands and make the IAS rank.

J & K's first Muslim lady IAS qualifier, 25-year-old Shehrish Asghar belongs to the
militancy hit remote Kishtwar district.

Assistant Sales Tax Commissioner, Bhagyashri Banait, from Morshi Tehsil in Amravati cleared the UPSC on her third attempt in the midst of a

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5 takes on  the 1st episode of Satyamev Jayate. Both the thumbs up and the  taking the pants off the new show. Social pornography or a wake up call? Media-savvy Indians respond.

So is Aamir ending all endorsement deals now post SMJ? Veeresh Malik, financial columnist mentions exactly that :

'Co-terminus with the whole Satyameva Jayate opening and the high level of angst from a vast number of people in the "news" industry (who I suspect are kind of upset that along comes this gent from the entertainment industry and pulls the carpet out from under their feet) is the announcement that Aamir Khan has terminated all the endorsements he has pending AND won't be doing any commercial endorsements anymore either. AND that some of the next episodes will be covering products which were endorsed too, as well as their effects.'

Another journalist, TS Sudhir, asks if Aamir's showing a mirror to mainstream news television.

'As a television journalist, that was my first reaction. Is he doing my job?

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The Indian film industry will celebrate 100 years of its existence in 2013. On May 3 1913, India's first full-length feature film "Raja Harishchandra" was first shown in public. Although it was a silent film, it marked the advent of the Indian film industry.

Here's a look at five landmark Hindi movies that put India on the global cinematic map. Also watch a debate on whether Indian cinema has come of age or not? We also trace back the glorious journey of Hindi films in the last century.

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A Norwegian court is shown a false police ID and weapons used by Anders Breivik when he gunned down 69 people on the island of Utoeya in Norway last year.

Meanwhile Reuters has reported that mental health experts are trying to decide one of the central questions in the case: whether Breivik is insane or in touch with reality.

Breivik, who pleaded not guilty but admitted the killings, has said being labeled insane would be a fate worse than death, though his lawyer initially did just that.

So confusing is his case that two teams of court appointed psychiatrists reached vastly different conclusions about his mental state: one team found him psychotic while another said he was mentally capable.

"You expect with psychiatric disorders to see a level of distress and incoherence," said Roderick Orner, a Norwegian psychologist who specialises in traumatic stress and a visiting professor at the University of Lincoln.

"We don't see that in Breivik. He falls into this

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