Divya Sethu

SDG School is a remarkable platform that combines people’s love for innovation with the sustainable development goals set by the United Nations. The result is a host of ideas and solutions that cut across sectors like healthcare, education, energy, waste management, and more.

Meet Vikash Abraham and his team at Urban Farms Co, which uses the lucrative regenerative farming model to prevent stubble burning and help lakhs of farmer earn more through chemical-free farming, for which it has now won international recognition.

As the WHO raised an alert for cough syrups manufactured in India that led to the death of 69 children in The Gambia, authors Dinesh Thakur and Prashant Reddy discuss their years-long crusade to highlight the glaring loopholes in medicine manufacturing in India.

The history of Bandel cheese — among the few varieties indigenous to India and first introduced during Portuguese rule over the subcontinent — is as intriguing as it is integral to understanding why the cheese deserves the GI-tag.

In June, Uttarakhand mountaineer Savita Kanswal became the first Indian woman to scale Mount Everest and Makulu in 16 days. She scaled many heights in her brief career, literally and metaphorically.

In December 2021, UNESCO included Kolkata’s Durga Puja in its Lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage. The historian behind the feat, Tapati Guha-Thakurta, explains how this took shape.

Geologist Dr S B Misra discovered a type of fossil in Canada that could have easily been his ticket to fame. He left it all, however, to return to his village in Uttar Pradesh and set up the Bharatiya Gramin Vidyala to offereducation to all.

IIT alumni and RTI activist Shailesh Gandhi is among the leading voices for right to information in India. He recalls why he chose to give up a successful company at its peak to help form the Right to Information Act, 2005.

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, or Begum Rokeya, fought grave opposition and criticism to build India’s first school for Muslim girls. She goes down in history as being key in launching Bengal’s feminist revolution.

Delhi-based lawyer Jasmine George is spreading awareness around sexual and reproductive health rights of women while ensuring access to safe abortions for those living in Tier-II and Tier-III cities.