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Mumbai’s Famous Khar Gymkhana Produces 400 Kgs of Waste. But Doesn’t Dispose...
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) H/West ward, recently awarded Mumbai’s Khar Gymkhana for its zero waste system. For the last two years, all trash generated in the gymkhana’s premises are...
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Is a Hunger-Free Nation Possible? With Initiatives Like These, There’s...
Indrasing’s formative years were spent watching his alcoholic father beat his mother. He grew up in such abject poverty that there would be no food in the house for days together. During this...
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Bengaluru Beats San Francisco to Provide ‘Best Digital Environment’. What...
Good news for India, and Bengaluru in particular. Bengaluru beats San Francisco to emerge on top in ‘best digital environment’ survey. The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has conducted this survey,...
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The Story of Durban’s Bunny Chow, An Indian Dish Difficult to Find in India!
Cheap, filling and deliciously rustic, bunny chow is one of the most popular takeaway meals in Durban, South Africa’s third-largest city. With a name like that, you’d think this much-loved street snack...
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This Farmer’s Innovative Technique Could Fix Our Smog Problem and Earn Profits!
As the debate about the degrading air quality due to the burning of crop residue by farmers in Punjab and Haryana intensifies, one Maharashtra farmer has been riding waves of change with his unique...
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Love for a Lake Transformed This Mumbai Couple Into Environmental Crusaders
The story of Shruti and Sunil Agarwal, residents of Nerul in Navi Mumbai, showcases the transformation of two regular citizens into the stakeholders of environmental protection and conservation. The...
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Living Light: Into the Heart of India’s Mysterious Glowing Forests and Beaches
“There are two kinds of light — the glow that illuminates and the glare that obscures”, wrote James Thurber, the celebrated American author-artist. He may as well have been talking about one of...
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Mumbai Professor Begged on Trains to Set up English Medium Schools in Rural...
Sipping a cup of tea at his Goregaon home, Sandeep Desai chuckles as he recalls the first day he boarded a local train with an agenda in mind and a transparent acrylic box in his bag almost seven years...
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How a Crime Ridden Mumbai Slum Is Keeping Its Girl Students in School
Malwani is a slum in North Bombay, known for alcoholism, drug abuse, domestic violence, and girl child abuse. Kusum, a class 8 student of Holy Mother English School, studies in a Teach for India...
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Railway Launches App to Ensure Safety for Women Commuters in Mumbai
Women commuters who travel between Churchgate and Virar suburban railway stations in Mumbai can now feel safe with a new app launched by the Railway Protection Force (RPF). The app is called ‘Eyewatch...
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This Mumbai Woman’s App Is Helping Slum Mothers Get Their Kids Vaccinated on...
The fact that most of us lead healthy lives today can be highly attributed to the special care our parents took in getting us timely vaccinations against deadly diseases during the first few years of...
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Netizens Raised Rs 25 Lakh in One Day to Save a Cancer Patient!
The power of good samaritans in the virtual world has reinstated our faith in humanity yet again! 25-year-old Rushi’s story bears witness to this. The Gujarat resident opened his heart to the world by...
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Safe and Clean Community Toilets: Mumbai Women Demand Their ‘Right to Pee’
An NGO’s campaign in Mumbai is challenging President Ramnath Kovind’s claim about urban Maharashtra being open defecation free, which he had announced a month ago. As a comeback, the Committee of...
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Tired of Dirty Toilets at Stations? You Can Send Feedback With a Click of...
If you find public toilets in suburban railway stations of Mumbai in a filthy and unkempt state and extremely unfit for use, you can now send in feedback with just a click of your smartphone. Launched...
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Meet The ‘Waste Warriors’, Who Are Helping Mumbai Become a Cleaner City
The recent endeavour by the BMC to tackle the issue of garbage segregation has forced Mumbaikars to change their lifelong habits and apathy towards household waste. Large building societies now have to...
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How 30 Artists Breathed New Life Into Mumbai’s 142-Year-Old Sassoon Docks!
Built in 1875 and situated off Cuffe Parade in South Mumbai, Sassoon Docks is one of the oldest docks in Mumbai, and only one open to the general public. The 142-year-old dock is also, one of largest...
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Leaving No One Behind: Here’s the Kind of Education That Can Transform India
When he was in 5th standard, Badra Sen Negi ran away from his home in a small village in Himachal’s Kinnaur district. Later, when he came under the aegis of an initiative run by an NGO, he hesitantly...
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NGO & School Students Come Together to Clean Mumbai’s Mangrove Forest
Among the diverse forest types in India, mangroves are one of the most prominent vegetation. Mangroves are trees evolved to survive in coastal conditions with salt water immersion. Their aerial root...
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Mumbai Is Going to Ban Plastic, Here’s the Perfect Replacement for the City’s...
As per the BMC, the city of Mumbai generates at least 8,000 metric tonnes of garbage every day. And an estimated four percent of that consists of plastics. Though plastic bags that are thinner than 50...
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Residents Step up, Despite Afroz Suspending Versova Clean-Up for the Weekend
While Afroz Shah, the poster boy of Versova beach clean-up broke under pressure, and temporarily discontinued work with his volunteers this weekend, all hope is not lost. Shah made headlines, after...
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