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This Automobile Engineer Is Earning in Crores After Switching to Farming!
Is engineering the only solution in India? Meet Pramod Gautam – a former automobile engineer who switched to farming (of all things) in 2006 and after implementing a radically different method of...
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From 156 Years Ago, Here’s the Very First FIR Filed by the Delhi Police
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. – Virginia Woolf Thank God then, that the Delhi Police had recorded the first FIR (First Information Report) they had filed – long ago on...
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These Three Men Are Connecting Farmers in Andhra Pradesh to the Europe Market
Aneel Kumar Ambavaram has a masters degree in organic agriculture from the University of Wageningen in the Netherlands, one of the best schools for agricultural sciences. After working with...
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This Man Quit His 10-Year Banking Career to Create a Broker-Free Market for...
Prateek Sharma was born to a family of farmers in a village close to Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. He started farming at the age of 10 along with his family but moved to Bhopal after class 8 for higher...
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India on a Plate: Home Cooked Food From Across the Country, Right in Your City!
“If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him… the people who give you their food give you their heart.” -Cesar Chavez And how about getting a heart from each state of...
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Meet Jabna Chauhan, India’s Youngest Sarpanch, Whose Fiery Schemes Have...
It doesn’t matter how old you are, where you come from or what people think about you, your ability is going to be your identity! Hailing from a small village named Thajun, located in Mandi district of...
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Women Groups Transform 5 Villages in U.P, Thanks to the Students of Banaras!
Alcoholism, gambling and domestic abuse were once rampant in villages like Khushiyari, Deura, Bhadrasi, Ramsipur and Jagardevpur in Uttar Pradesh, but today these places are known for empowering the...
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This Banker-Turned-Farmer Is Growing 70 Varieties of Herbs, Helping 22000...
Rajaram Tripathi could have kept his job as a banker, given the financially and politically unstable area he grew up in – Dantewada in the district of Bastar, Madhya Pradesh. The village was notorious...
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How This Bengaluru Quarry Went From Garbage Dump to Beautiful Park
A satellite image of north Bangalore shows a giant white crater. This crater is where a 180 acre-wide granite quarry cluster is located, fulfilling the city’s requirement for construction material....
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This Menstruation Warrior’s Efforts Have Helped More Than 10,000 Women
Snehal Chaudhary is a 24-year-old software engineer from Mumbai, who has made it her life’s mission to eradicate menstrual taboos in India. She is the founder of an NGO called Kshitij Foundation that...
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In Mumbai’s Most Backward Area, 300 Differently-Abled Kids Are Getting a New...
In a 2011 report, the World Health Organisation (WHO) estimated that 15.3% of the world’s population deals with some kind of disability. The 2011 census numbered India’s disabled at 2.21% of the...
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He Didn’t Buy Any Land, but Now This CA Is Earning Far More Through Farming
We have heard about engineers-turned-farmers, bankers-turned-farmers or even chartered accountants-turned farmers. But have you heard about a part-time CA and full-time farmer? That’s Rajeev Bittu from...
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Organic Milk at Your Door Step Now, Thanks to 9 Techies and a Veterinary Doctor!
India’s organised dairy sector’s growth is expected to rise as much as 25 percent by FY 2017-18. But it’s not all good news! According to the National Survey of Milk Adulteration 2011, as much as 70...
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How One Boy’s Realisation Led to a Campaign to Help Differently Abled...
Vinay Kumar, who is from a small village, Nagla Raja in Etah district of Uttar Pradesh would have been a labourer today had it not been for a chance encounter with Amit Yadav – a differently abled...
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Kotwals to IPS: The Fascinating Histories Behind Some of India’s State Police...
If you think people are inherently good, you get rid of the police for 24 hours – see what happens. – Sylvester Stallone Every day, in every city and town across the country, police officers help...
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One Doctor Has Transformed the Lives of Over 5000 Youth, 2000 Children & 6000...
“As a 5-year-old it was hard for me to fight with hunger. My mother was illiterate. She was thrown into a cowshed along with her three children to die after my father went missing. She would ask farm...
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This School Dropout Mechanic’s Low Cost Farm Equipment Is a Boon to Farmers
Rajendra Lohar from Pachvara village in Jalgaon district of Maharashtra has made a low-cost mini tiller and five more farming equipment which are proving to be a boon for the farmers. You will be...
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This Mumbai Man Is Keeping His Promise to ‘Nirbhaya’, and Wants You to Join...
16th December 2012 is a date that Indian’s will never forget! The brutal rape of 23-year-old Jyoti Singh (Nirbhaya) left a permanent scar on our collective memory. While the entire country was outraged...
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How One Man Traveled 19 States, Studied 6 Crore Plants and Planted 5200...
Awarded the Krishi Samrat Samman in 2015, Gafarbhai Qureshi has collected over 5200 types of plants in his nursery and gives free information and training to farmers and students about these plants,...
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Despite Droughts, This Maharashtra Farmer Is Earning Lakhs From 1 Acre!
A dream doesn’t become a reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work. – Colin Powell Marathwada’s current drought cycle began in 2011, and except 2013, the rains have failed...
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