Tanvi Patel

Traditional board games to quirky upcycled bags, these unconventional gifts are a great way to go eco-friendly this #RakshaBandhan. After all, there's no better gift for your loved one than a healthy, clean, and green planet!

Named Bennington’s Reefs (to honour Chester Bennington, the late Linkin Park vocalist), 200 of these modular blocks have been dropped off the Puducherry coast and are already showing results!

While miscreants will be fined as usual, rule-abiding citizens will get discount vouchers worth upto 50 per cent for online food delivery platforms. Little wonder the scheme is a hit with Punekars! #RespectRules #RoadSafety #IPS

Raja Ramanna, MGK Menon and Vikram Sarabhai were among the Indian stalwarts who greeted the astronaut trio of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. But also among the crowds was a thrilled Mumbaikar who gifted them lottery tickets. Find out why!

Just five years old, this #Hyderabad household drew so many visitors that the couple started their own #YouTube channel to give tips to enthusiastic followers. Barely 2 months old, the channel already has 12,000 subscribers!

Thanks to IFS Vipul Pandey, the dept. is now utilising discarded bamboo stems to replace plastic planters and has enough to plant another 20000 saplings. Time for other forest departments to borrow this 'leaf'!

Seeing underprivileged students hunched up over their notebooks, Eshan Sadasivan, knew that they were damaging their eyes as well as their spine. So the IIT alumnus came up with a simple and inexpensive solution to this problem!

"Who better to understand the issues of a farmer than a farmer himself,” says Narayan, who has developed several 'jugaad' tactics to make farming less cumbersome and more profitable!

"I know of 200 people who have taken up spinning as a result of my workshops. This number is wonderful in itself. It means we have kept the art of spinning alive for yet another generation,” says the man whose entire wardrobe is homespun and home-stitched! #Respect #LiveGreen

Pune's first bookbinding shop, an unusual hardware store that sells only nuts and bolts—the forgotten stories of such quaint shops now stay alive long after the shutters are pulled down, thanks to this talented duo!