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How a Trip to Mumbai’s Dharavi Made This Bihar Man A Multi-Millionaire
In 1998, M I Siddiqui, a resident of Muzaffarnagar in Bihar, left for a trip to Bombay with his 19-year-old cousin. The latter was heading to the city to enroll in a computer hardware course, so...
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59-YO Published Her 1st Novel at 53, Breaks Age Barriers by Writing 52 Books
In 2001, as Mumbai-based Sundari Venkatraman sat typing away at her keyboard late into the nights, it was hard for her to not feel dejected. She would write and rewrite the chapters of her second...
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Mumbai Startup Launches India’s 1st Electric Cruiser With 40-Min Fast Charge...
At a time when most ventures are struggling to come out of the COVID-19 pandemic with their businesses intact, Mumbai-based startup Earth Energy EV has gone on to launch three electric two-wheelers....
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How a Magsaysay Awardee Doctor Reunited 7000 Mentally-Ill Patients With Their...
In 1991, Maniben was brought to the Shraddha Rehabilitation Foundation by an elderly gentleman. She’d been sitting on the road with two children, with the younger one having passed away in her arms....
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Started With Rs 3000, This All-Women Canteen Now Earns Rs 3 Crore Per Year
At the age of 30, Sumitra Shinge from Vasai, Mumbai, lost her husband. Her son was then five years old, and the two had no means of gaining financial support. While looking for a job to sustain her...
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Mumbai Startup 3D Prints Bones Starting at Rs 5,000; Aids Over 1200 Surgeries
At 22, Firoza Kothari from Mumbai, a Biotech engineer scripted history via 3D printing. She helped save the life of a 9-month-old with an abnormal hole in the heart. She created a replica of the...
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Back in the 1970s, This Mother of 3 Kids Beat Odds to Etch her Mark as a...
“This is the problem with you girls…You will study hard, score high marks and then give it all up after marriage.” Dr Mangala Narlikar’s colleague’s brutally honest words churned a silent storm inside...
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Brothers Return From Silicon Valley, Launch Low-Cost E-Bikes That go 35Km on...
Growing up in a family full of engineers in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, brothers Sachin and Vishal Chopra always knew that they would dedicate their lives to product making. After all, their family was in the...
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95-YO Award-Winning Granny Uses a Power Drill to Carve Her 500 Acrylic...
There’s something so warm and comforting in conversing with senior citizens. Their experience, anecdotes and the life lessons that they impart is better than any self-help book one can find. I got the...
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Meet The Parsi Lawyer Who Helped Ensure Indian Women Can Vote Freely
Mithan Lam (née Tata), and her mother Herabai Tata, the wife of industrialist Ardeshir Bejonji Tata (a member of Parsi industrialist Jamsetji Tata’s extended family), were on a holiday in the cool...
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Two Mumbai Doctors Help 1300 Underprivileged Kids Hear Again, For Free
By 2050, 2.5 billion people worldwide ─ or 1 in 4 people ─ will have some degree of hearing loss, as per a recent World Health Organization’s (WHO) report. Of them, nearly 700 million will need...
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Mumbai Society Converts Waste Into Fertilizer, Grows 90 Kgs Organic Veggies...
A society in Mumbai’s Wadala area has not had a visit from the BMC (Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation) waste collection truck for over two years. Instead, Emgee Greens society has been turning its...
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Accidental Entrepreneur’s Healthy Snack Brand for Kids Has B-Town Moms Impressed
Born and brought up in Kolkata, Rukmini Banerji (37) is a lawyer by qualification who after the birth of her son decided to turn to entrepreneurship. In June 2018, she launched The Growing Giraffe, a...
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Indian Surgeon’s Groundbreaking Cancer Research Saves the Lives of 1000s of...
When Lady Meherbai Tata died of leukaemia on 18 June 1931, her husband, Sir Dorabji Tata, Jamsetji Tata’s son and a key figure of the Tata Group endowed the Lady Tata Memorial Trust with a corpus for...
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With 100-Year-Old Recipes, Surat Family’s Mumbai Eatery Awes Millions In...
Bijal Harsora’s weekend routine has remained unchanged for nearly three decades. Her Sunday ritual includes a visit to the Madhavbaug temple in Mumbai’s Bhuleshwar area around 7 am. She goes with an...
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Mumbai Firm Recycles 7200 Tons of E-Waste Yearly, Launches Free App For Home...
Editor’s Note: The article originally listed the firm as recycling ‘7200 Million Tonnes’ of e-waste. This was a typo. The company recycles ‘7200 Metric Tonnes’ of e-waste. The article has been updated...
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50 Jobless Migrant Workers Now Have Hope For Tomorrow, Thanks to a Bihar IAS...
The nationwide lockdown imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic had a devastating impact on livelihoods. Among the worst affected were workers from Bihar employed in distant industrial centres like Surat,...
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Single Mom Behind Mumbai’s ‘Swati Snacks’; Loved by the Likes of M.F & Zakir...
The year is 1963. In Tardeo, a quaint neighbourhood in Mumbai, Minakshi Jhaveri frantically slices onions and keeps an eye, albeit a watery one, on the boiling potatoes. Her children are already off...
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This Single Mom Fought Cancer Twice, And Then Became the Author of 10...
Right off the bat, author and life coach Neelam Kumar is vibrant and warm – something of a surprise considering her long and arduous life journey. Neelam survived the death of her beloved husband, two...
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Where Can You Get Plasma For COVID-19 Treatment? Check India-Wide Helplines
The social media platforms are flooded with requests for plasma donors to help their loved ones recover from COVID-19 or coronavirus. With a surge in cases, India is witnessing a heavy demand for...
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