Kyani to Nirula’s: Artist Takes India Down Memory Lane with Sketches of...
“I wanted to portray iconic spots; ones that are a part of people’s lives but often lost in the cacophony,” says Aditya Raj, a self-taught fine artist from Jaipur whose Instagram sketches of heritage...
View ArticleKids’ Toys Too Costly? This Dad is Making it Possible For Parents to Rent Them
When 34-year-old Sourabh Jain first became a father to his daughter, his perspective on life changed. Like any parent, his daughter became his world. However, he struggled with bonding with her in...
View ArticleThis Prodigy Went to MIT at 14, Has Now Built One of World’s Most Advanced...
Angad Daryani, the 25-year-old founder of Praan, Inc., a deep-tech startup based out of Mumbai, is part of a generation that grew up with a reality of a bleak future—one plagued with pollution and...
View Article‘I Am Honouring My Dad’s Memory With Free Boarding School In India’s Highest...
Portia Putatunda, a successful journalist in Mumbai, found her life taking an unexpected turn when tragedy struck. The loss of her only parent, her father, left her in deep grief. “I lost myself when...
View ArticleI Beat Cancer Thanks to My Wife’s Nudge for Regular Health Checkups: Lessons...
In 2023, I encountered a life-altering challenge – a battle with bladder cancer. This unexpected journey, marked by early detection and unwavering determination, reshaped my perspective on health and...
View ArticleHow 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....
View ArticleStarted 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...
View ArticleMumbai 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...
View ArticleBack 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...
View ArticleBrothers 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...
View Article95-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...
View ArticleMeet 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...
View ArticleTwo 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...
View ArticleMumbai 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...
View ArticleAccidental 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...
View ArticleIndian 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...
View ArticleWith 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...
View ArticleMumbai 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...
View Article50 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,...
View ArticleSingle 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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