Bhaulal Kushwaha grew up around banana plantations, playing hide-and-seek amidst rows of plants while helping his parents. Growing bananas is now his profession and also his passion. But for the…
Everyone calls Sujata Adhikari “the activist” at Diwali parties. She gets strange looks and sighs from friends and family when she articulates why she wouldn’t accept unsustainable gifts -- wouldn’t…
Every day after returning from school, young Ramveer Tanwar would quickly eat his lunch, pick up his school books and take a herd of cattle for grazing. While the livestock…
Wearing a soiled kurta-pyjama, Ajay Kumar was tending to his green fields in a rural village in Uttar Pradesh. The uncertainty of the past few months is gradually making way…
Twenty-nine-year-old Rohit Sharma recalls growing up with monkeys in Ayodhya, the famous pilgrim centre in Uttar Pradesh. The last few weeks though, in the midst of the COVID-19 lockdown, he…
It was a cold and lazy Sunday afternoon. But inside sculptor Gopal Namjoshi’s studio in Medawas, a small village in Gurugram, work was going on in full swing. Standing atop…
At 60, Bairagi Patra does not need a book or a white paper to understand the value of the environment. Patra, a marginal farmer and daily wage earner, who lives…
For as long as he remembers, Karnataka-based Rajshekhar Virupaxappa has been weaving and dyeing fabrics. The knowledge of yarns and dyes comes naturally to him. But nearly eight years ago,…
Shweta Thakur Nanda is a journalist based in Delhi NCR. A long form story teller for more than 13 years, she has worked for India’s leading news wires, newspapers and magazines. She believes that the world is changing and
journalists need to chronicle the change (good, bad or ugly) and accentuate its impact on the society. This has encouraged her to write in-depth stories on issues ranging from environment conservation, sustainable fashion and lifestyle, women and child rights to youth and politics. Her liking for research oriented in-depth stories on issues affecting common men and women helped her win the Observer Peace Foundation Award for Journalism and Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism. 
