Jovita Aranha

A multi-tasker, the perfect bahu, wife, and mother. A control room to seek help every time something goes wrong, the perfect shoulder to cry on and the warmest person to hug at all times—she is looked up to as a being that can do no wrong.

Made from refused and reused material or what Dasarathi refers to as ‘kachra,’ the home with a built-up area of 1700 sq ft was designed by his family of three, and executed brilliantly by award-winning architects Vijay Narnapatti and Dimple Mittal from the architectural firm, Maya Praxis.

After extensive research about the biggest issues that affected the global climate change, he settled to work on alternatives to clean cooking energy.

Guwahati-based environmental scientist, Dr Amarjyoti Kashyap, has created a pond on the rooftop of his two-storey building on LNB Road at Hatigaon. He has been rearing and cultivating fish for the last one month.

Of all his techniques, it was bamboo staking that brought his work to the limelight.

Thanks to Ruhi’s voluntary service and passion for teaching, 74 of the 92 students passed! This was a leap of 80 per cent from the past year when only 17 students (21 per cent) had cleared the subject!

A whiteboard, markers, and a duster for the teachers and a carpet laid on the ground for them to sit on, 15 such study centres across Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and recently, Rajasthan, are providing free-of-cost education for slum and street kids since 2013.

Today, spread on a 2.5-acre plot lies a five-layered model economically-viable and sustainable farm, the fruit of Akash's labour.

The masala is an accurately measured and carefully fashioned mixture of 25, or sometimes even 60, ingredients, each of which are sun-dried, roasted and pounded.

Nearly a decade ago, Bhatia gave up a well-paying job as an environmental analyst with the United States Environmental Protection Agency in Boston and traded her busy city life abroad to live at Vrindavan Farm.