The Butterfly Cancer Care Foundation focuses on bringing free cancer treatment to underprivileged children By Rajalakshmy R Legendary poet Rabindranath Tagore once said, “The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.” This, ...
A young IIT graduate is teaching hope to a remote river island in Assam There is a story about an adamant little hummingbird. It did its best to put out a huge jungle fire by ...
Dr Khader Valli, on why millet was and should be every Indian’s staple We all have our notions of what is healthy and what is not, drilled into our minds from a very young age ...
Anand Malligavad has devoted himself to bringing Bengaluru’s lakes back to life For a little boy who grew up clambering up trees in the grove around the lake near his school, Anand Malligavad probably had ...
A youth collective in Kerala, led by Ansar T M, is transforming a village’s wastelands to paddy fields and sustainable farms Unassuming is the word that comes to mind as one talks with the 33-year-old ...
No challenge, however big, can stop triple amputee Tinkesh Kaushik from achieving, and jumping from new heights A 26-year-old fitness coach who loves to bungee jump. It might sound like child’s play, but not when ...
Dr Harshinder Kaur has been working tirelessly for 25 years to stop female foeticide in her home state of Punjab I felt that the dogs were tearing me apart,” says Dr Harshinder Kaur, recounting how ...
Sangita Sharma of Annadana sows the seeds of sustainable thinking by developing a regenerative, sustainable, organic agricultural model Sangita Sharma gets passionate when the talk veers to the state of farmers in the country. “The ...
No one is too small to make a difference. Let’s meet some heroic individuals and communities who are making the world a better place By Sumi Thomas, Aatika H Jain & Christina Tom Jose As ...
One of the world’s leading herbicides is deemed to be carcinogenic, but farmers are still hesitant to give it up By Anila Mathew Vivek One of the world’s most commonly used herbicides is in the ...