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Knowledge-centric solutions hub, cBalance curated the ‘Informal Housing Thermal Comfort’ project. It encourages participatory action from poor households to build thermally comfortable humane structures for them to live.

Lata Nayak, founder Principal, Rotary Sanskardham Academy for Children with Special Needs (RSA) started this school in 1995. But even today, there is no let-up in Lata’s fervour for the cause she espoused nearly three decades ago.

It causes deep anguish to remember the dead soon after their departure. How must we mourn the loss with guilt, anger and a sea of painful memories? Pooja Salvi urges us to try by borrowing courage from the past.

Renowned agricultural scientist, the founder of the Asian Agri-History Foundation (AAHF), Late Dr Y L Nene rediscovered the ingredients to the ‘natural pesticide’, Herbal Kunapajala that helps farmers even today.

Pune-based BiofuelCircle, founded by Suhas Baxi and Ashwin Save in June 2020, is an online marketplace for biomass and associated commodities (biofuel, biofertilizers, biogas) that connects the rural farming community with industrial producers. Here's how they're reducing stubble burning and generating a clean energy source.

Priya Krishnan Das writes about her wonderful and exotic experience of living in Desia Koraput — an eco-stay inside a tribal hamlet in Odisha.

Syed Waseem Shah, the brains behind the igloo café — Snoglu in Gulmarg, Jammu & Kashmir, speaks on how it took 1,700 man-days to complete the hotel.

The Harissa eatery in the downtown area of Srinagar has a centuries-old legacy. It is run by 80-year-old Ghulam Mohammad and his son 45-year-old son Zahoor Ahmad Bhat.

Thinking of enrolling your child in online coding classes? Jaipur's Ritika Mahajan shares her experience, along with pros and cons of teaching kids to code.

With trips to Germany, Cambodia, Spain, Meghalaya, Rajasthan and Goa — Pune-based Deenaz Raisinghani, aka ‘Backpacking Indian Mama’ is a torchbearer for hundreds of others who want to follow suit.