by sanjana | Jul 26, 2022
(July 26, 2022) The Kedarnath flash flood of 2013 in her hometown of Uttarakhand was a wake-up call for environmental activist, Ridhima Pandey. Barely six back then, she watched the death and destruction unfold on television at her house in Haldwani in the hill state...
by Amrita Priya | Jul 16, 2022
(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...
by Amrita Priya | Jul 8, 2022
(July 8, 2022) Staying in a run-down hotel in Tripura, near the Bangladesh border, with very poor connectivity, Shivakshi Bhattacharya was surprised to receive an early morning call from Canada. Expecting it to be a spam call, she answered to hear a woman’s...
by Amrita Priya | Jul 7, 2022
(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...
by Amrita Priya | Jun 19, 2022
(June 19, 2022) Divya Sijwali tells me she is often mistaken for being much younger than her 17 years – a quality that can work both for and against her, dealing as she does with issues that those far older have attempted to tackle. She is determined, though,...
