This Initiative Has Been Saving Mumbai’s Mangroves for Over 3 Decades; Here’s...
This article has been published in partnership with Godrej & Boyce. To a visitor travelling North toward Thane district from South Mumbai, Vikhroli passes for an ecological oasis amid a stretch of...
View ArticleWoman Makes Award-Winning Bonsai Paradise With Mini Mangoes, Chikoos & More
While large metropolises are found replete with concrete structures, a few driven citizens are studding them with swatches of lush green. One such green warrior is bonsai artist Veena Nanda of...
View ArticleResidential Societies Save Rs 58 Lakh/Year on Power Bills with One...
Dheeraj Dreams Building No 1 CHSL and Building No 3 CHSL, which are massive residential societies situated in Bhandup west, off LBS Marg in Mumbai, decided to adopt solar energy in 2018 to power shared...
View ArticleCurry Leaf to Moringa, Grow These Healthy Edible Flowers at Home Easily
In the heart of Mumbai’s Chembur suburb is a lush homegrown forest teeming with trees, shrubs and vigorous creepers. Punam Jain’s home welcomes you with a hapus mango tree on one side and a mini...
View ArticleThree Women, 7.5 Lakh Empty Milk Packets Recycled: The Milk Bag Project
It is often a small spark that inspires big change. That is exactly what happened when a viral social media post led to three women saving almost 7.5 lakh plastic milk packets from polluting the earth....
View Article28-YO Feeds 5 Lakh Destitute & Educates Slum Kids; The Reason Will Move You...
Two years ago, Nilay Agarwal was just another employee living in the corporate jungle of Gurugram. But today, he is the face of an organisation that is leading over 3,000 youngsters to feed 5 lakh...
View ArticleHomemaker Makes Guilt-Free Goodies From Oats & Flax Seeds, Bags Tons of Orders
“The need to be productive and find meaningful ways to stay engaged was the reason Gouri’s Goodies came into being,” says Gouri Gupta, 50, founder of the brand that makes nutritious and ‘guilt-free’,...
View ArticleWho Is the Viral 24-YO Singer Winning Praises From Hrithik, Sonu Nigam & More
On October 9, Shakeel, a resident of Mira Road, Mumbai, left his home around 5.30 pm for work. With his guitar and music setup, he travelled to the Versova area of Andheri to do a street performance....
View ArticleAward-Winning Solar Fridge Consumes 75% Less Power, Helps Small Biz Increase...
Sufiya Bano and Khalil Ahmed are proud owners of Muskaan Bakers and Dairy in Rudauli town, Faizabad district, Uttar Pradesh. Their commercial refrigerator used to generate an electricity bill of Rs...
View ArticleCleaning Canteens to Owning a Rs 50 Crore Restaurant Biz: The Man Behind Shiv...
It is said that in India, the food, the palette and flavours change every 100 kilometers or so. No surprise then that we have so many regional specialties of dishes, each with its unique offering. For...
View ArticleCouple Teaches 1000s of Farmers Across India How To Grow Pearls In Home-Made...
It was their love for pearls and its cultivation that got Ashok Manwani and his wife, Kulanjan Dubey Manwani, together in 2003. The couple met for the first time that year at an event organised to...
View Article‘Earned My First Income at 64’: Inspiring ‘Aai’ Whips Up Success With South...
For 64-year-old Nirmala Hegde, better known as Aai, the concept of selling the food that she cooked was completely alien. “While I would always feed my own friends and son’s friends, the idea of...
View ArticleHomemaker Takes Pure, Fresh Bilona Ghee From Punjab to Poland; Earns Rs 20 Lakh
“After having survived a very bad bout of COVID-19 in March 2020 it took me a long time to recover. The doctors were on the verge of giving up on me when I suddenly bounced back,” says Kamaljit Kaur...
View ArticleDamyanti Gupta’s Grit & Wit Made Ford Hire Her as Its First Female Engineer
In a period when women seldom took up jobs, Damyanti Gupta dreamt of being an engineer at Ford company and successfully earned it at the age of 25. Originally from Sindh in Pakistan (which was part of...
View ArticleEven Alzheimers Couldn’t Dampen the Love This 87-Year-Old Couple Has
Yogendra Shankar Chaudhry (87) and Lata Chaudhry (84), residents of Mumbai were married for 53 years before life as they knew it changed completely. After a series of minor incidents, Lata was...
View ArticleMother-Son Duo Feed Thousands of Mumbai’s Homeless With Delicious Homemade Meals
The outbreak of the pandemic left many individuals homeless and jobless. Witnessing the misery of fellow citizens, mother and son duo, Meena and Harsh Mandavia, resorted to random acts of kindness and...
View ArticleThis Campaign Is Gifting 1.5 Million Hours of Sleep to Hundreds of...
This article has been sponsored by Duroflex. We often take for granted the things that are truly priceless. A good night’s sleep is one among them. After a long day at work, when you come back home...
View ArticleBuilding a Reading Habit? Here Are 8 Iconic Book Clubs to Join in India
In Bengaluru, within the 300-acre expanse of Cubbon Park, where it seems as though colours radiate more brilliantly as the sun struggles to peek through the dense canopy of tree branches, a natural...
View ArticleIn Pics: Why A Banker Has Been Photographing Mumbai’s Flamingos For 7 Years...
Vidyasagar Hariharan found his purpose in life thanks to running. In 2016, the Mumbai resident joined a marathon coaching club. While going for a run, his marathon mates spoke about going cycling to...
View ArticleFrom Patiala to Paris: 92-YO Journalist Who Made France Fall in Love with...
It’s a cold winter morning in Paris, and the cobbled lanes and historic buildings make for the perfect photo in a postcard. Buyers throng stores for last-minute festive shopping, while boulangeries...
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