(August 6, 2022) About five minutes into the video call with Rishika Karthik, I notice a beautiful painting hanging right behind her. Depicting several masked people, a small note on the canvas read, “I’m not fine.” Upon enquiring about the piece,...
(July 16, 2022) Mounted on a small boat, the 21-year-old environmentalist Subhadeep Purkayastha was making his way among the submerged homes to provide relief supplies to the people of Silchar, his hometown in Assam, which was the worst hit by floods, when he heard...
(July 7, 2022) The drought crisis in 2015 left 330 million Indians affected – a number that made the then 15-year-old Garvita Gulhati frantically look for answers. Keen to find a way to conserve water, she started Why Waste? – a youth-led initiative to...
(May 21, 2022) As a young child, environmentalist Sneha Shahi would go to the north east of India, where her father was stationed. Over the years, she fell in love with nature. Back in Vadodara, Gujarat, where she grew up, Sneha showed a marked interest in...
(May 15, 2022) Back in 2012, a 19-year-old student based in Thiruvananthapuram started an NGO named SARSAS (Save A Rupee Spread a Smile), which aimed at encouraging charity and social work in youngsters. Almost a decade later, environmentalist Sanju was selected as...
