Roshini Muthukumar

Seven years ago, Jayanti Vaidyanathan (65), a resident of Chennai began growing plants on her terrace to eat healthy and to get some sunlight. Today, she grows over 250 plants, which includes a variety of vegetables, fruits, flowering and medicinal plants.

Rozy Saldhana (51), a resident of Mumbai, was put on dialysis due to kidney failure five years ago. Today, even as she fights for her life, she spared her oxygen cylinder and sold her jewellery to help others ailing from the coronavirus.

S Sathyanarayanan is a French teacher in Chennai's Anna Gem Science Park School, and took up terrace gardening as a hobby in 2015. Today, he grows over 400 plants on his terrace and balcony, and cares for them with a wide variety of homemade fertilizers using waste.

To reduce packaging waste generated in households, Refillable Store, a Mumbai-based startup, provides refilling of homecare products, including detergents, in containers of your choosing.

Chirasmita Panigrahi, a research scholar at IIT Kharagpur has invented a new manufacturing process to extend the shelf life of sugarcane juice without any heat or chemicals.

Ikram Khan, a scientist from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - Madras and the founder of ISMO Bio-Photonics Pvt Ltd, has developed a low-cost 3D printing system to create mini brain 'organoids' that mimic how our minds work.

Subburaman M from Trichy, Tamil Nadu, a Padma Shri Award winner and founder of Society for Community Organisation and People’s Education (SCOPE) NGO has innovated a simple solution to save and reuse water generated from hand washing.

In 1986, Ramakrishna Bhat migrated from Sringeri to Bengaluru to work as a chef. Today, his eatery, Bhat's Holige Mane, is famous for its homemade version of the traditional Ugadi sweet - holiges.

Want to grow organic vegetable on your terrace? Delhi's Irene Gupta shares the tips and tricks you'll need to get the perfect harvest from recycled containers.

Arunjyoti Lokhanday (50), a resident of Nalgonda, Telangana makes seed paper napkins out of the wet waste generated in her kitchen. Her creative solution was recently appreciated by the Telangana State Innovation Cell.