Himanshu Nitnaware

For over two decades, Nadeem Shehzad and Mohammad Saud have been saving Delhi’s injured birds, victims of deadly kite strings, from a tiny home clinic.

R Gurusamy, a farmer from Tamil Nadu, gave up most of his ancestral land to care for a few wandering deer in the vicinity. Today, even amid water and food shortage in the nearby forest, his land is a safe haven for over 1,800 deer

Premchand Sharma won the Padma Shri for bringing a pomegranate farming revolution to the mountains of Uttarakhand. This is his incredible story

Punjab farmer Amandeep Sarao first chanced upon dragon fruit during a trip with his friends. Today, he’s growing it organically, and earning lakhs from it

After seeing an Anganwadi in dilapidated condition on her trip to Kerala, Maria Kasselmann launched Positive Power for Children e.V, an NGO that works toward renovating dilapidated government schools

Taking inspiration from Maharshi Karve, Jameendar Babasaheb Keshav Narayanrao Deshmukh set up the Sanskriti Samvardhan Mandal (SSM), to start the first-ever residential school in Sagroli, Maharashtra committed to empowering girls through education

Engineers Tukaram Sonawane and Sonal Veljali returned to their hometown for the first time in 14 years, and vowed to resolve their village’s farming woes with an ‘Electric Bull’, which can take care of all the maintenance work on a farm -- from sowing to the harvest

In a village in Telangana lies a 70-acre forest teeming with lakhs of fruit-bearing trees and 13 ponds. The sole guardian of this land, Dusharla Satyanarayana, has been cultivating this ecosystem on his ancestral land for decades

Entrepreneurs Harshit and Parikshit from Hyderabad run Okno Modhomes, a venture that helps their clients assemble sustainable homes on their own, without the use of concrete or cement

Rajasthan-based Santosh Pachar spent years developing a new variety of carrot seeds that has earned her success and helped thousands of others