This Mumbai Woman’s Body-Positive Message Is Something You Cannot Miss Today!
She is a plus-sized woman. She wears a turban. And she's a feminist. Also, she has no time to care about people pigeonholing her into tired old stereotypes. People are hailing a post published on the...
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How a Farmer’s Son From Maharashtra Developed a Solar Dryer That Is Now Used...
In 2008, Vaibhav Tidke laid the foundation of an organisation that would work to benefit society, in particular farmers. He was still in college, undertaking his final year at Mumbai’s Institute of...
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25 Years After Dropping out, 41-Year-Old Mumbai Auto Driver Is All Set for...
Sharif Abdul Samad Khan, an auto driver from Mumbai has led a humble life. The father of five had to drop out of school when he was a child due to financial problems and start working to help out his...
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5 Women Illustrators From India Who Use the Power of Art to Shatter Taboos...
Edgar Degas, the renowned 19th century French painter, once said, “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” In its many forms, art is a powerful means of expression. It can break...
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Exotic Venues & Unique Themes: These 7 Film Festivals Celebrate Cinema with a...
Amidst the plethora of film festivals in India, some offer a unique insight into the world of cinema- by focusing on specific themes, or by catering to a niche audience. Here is a list of seven such...
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From Fun Holi Celebrations to Amazing Food – a Swedish Nomad Gives 12 Reasons...
Want to visit India? It’s a vast country with endless cultural experiences, festivals and things to do, in fact, it’s one of the biggest countries in the world, and also home to over 1 billion people....
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How Kamala Sohonie Defied Gender Bias & Became the First Indian Woman Ph.D in...
Underrepresented, underpaid and often unrecognised for their scientific achievements, women scientists across the world have been fighting gender bias for decades. In India, this bias was probably the...
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TBI Blogs: What This Teacher Did When She Found out That Her Student Travels...
A small intervention can lead to big positive changes for people in need. Sneha Kalaivanan explores the story of TFI Fellow Sajida Vadgama whose intervention on behalf of one of her students helped him...
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A Co-Working Space for Women With On-Call Grocery & Day Care? This Chennai...
In tandem with global trends, India has swiftly embraced the concept of co-working spaces. In major Indian cities, shared working spaces have emerged as a haven for new entrepreneurs, startups and...
View ArticleIn Football and in Life, This Father Teaches His Son to Treat Women Equally....
Recently in a park in Mumbai, no different from most parks across the country, a group of children were playing football. When the girl stepped up to play, one of the boys told her not to "kick like a...
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Time to Reimagine Stationery! How About Buying Paper & Pencils That Can Turn...
Despite the advent and popularity of digital resources, the charm of good-old paper is hard to resist. But manufacturing paper, and indeed many stationery items, involves the cutting of numerous trees....
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TBI Blogs: Meet the Young Startup Busy Working to Create India’s First...
Lack of access to English language skills can be a severe restriction to higher education for many children of India. Pranil Naik, and his organisation Leap For Word, hope to remove this stumbling...
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These Mumbaikars Took Matters in Their Own Hands and Are Making Footpaths...
The citizens of Mumbai have come together to make the city a bit more friendly for pedestrians. And to do just that, they have started documenting every problem in the streets of the city to get the...
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Foodie Alert: 15 Fabulous Food Festivals in India That You Just Can’t Afford...
Food and travel go hand-in-hand. There is probably no better way to experience the soul of a place than through its food - how better to do that than to attend a food festival, where one can attend...
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Mumbai Airport Is Crawling With Bacteria, and It’s a Good Thing! Here’s Why
In the past few months, men who have been using the restrooms at the Terminal 2 (T2) of the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai have probably noticed something different about the...
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How This Mumbai Couple Juggles Careers With Running an Organic Farm in Rural...
Located in the Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra, Phungus is a remote village that remains dominated by farming communities and largely untouched by modernisation. The area is also home to Farm of...
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Nature Clubs Are a Great Way to Do Your Bit for the Planet. Here’s How You...
Most successful nature clubs, from Chennai’s famed Madras Naturalist Society to Assam’s revered Aaranyak Nature Club, have been founded by like-minded friends and peers who want to do their bit for the...
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From Homes to Jungles, These Easy-To-Make Seed Bombs Are Enabling Indians to...
We live in times when trees have become endangered commodities. Whether it is to build colossal apartments or metro stations and steel flyovers, trees are often the silent victims of modernization....
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In a Laudable Move, Maharashtra Will Convert Leftovers From Expressway Food...
Anyone who has travelled via the many highways of India would be immediately familiar with the hundreds of food malls and restaurants that line these roads, catering to a wide range of travellers. It...
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This Low-Cost Robot Designed by Mumbai Students Could Clean up the Pollution...
With water pollution continuing to be a major environmental threat to the nation, a group of determined students have developed a unique robot that may hold the key to solving the imminent problems...
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