by Charu Thakur | 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 Charu Thakur | 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 Darshana Ramdev | Apr 7, 2022
(April 7, 2022) When today’s youth chance upon a problem, they are pretty proactive. So when the then 10-year-old Madhvi Chitoor saw the menace of styrofoam cups, she decided to tackle plastic pollution. That became a huge movement that even saw Potus, American...