TBI Team

Once hit by a deadly plague, Surat is now India’s cleanest city. With smart tech, community effort, and a Rs 500 crore waste economy, it shows how cleanliness can become a habit.

Turn your kitchen counter into a mini farm! With just seeds, soil, and sunlight, you can grow fresh, nutrient-rich microgreens at home in 10 days, bringing health, flavour, and freshness straight into your everyday Indian meals.

In 2007, Safeena Husain began with 50 Rajasthan villages. Today, Educate Girls has enrolled 1.4M girls in 30,000 villages and is the first Indian NGO to win Magsaysay.

This Ganeshotsav, Mumbai’s mandals embraced eco-innovation — crafting idols from mud, roots, rope, paper, nutshells, and husk, proving tradition can protect nature.

At 23, Kerala’s Ashin P Krishna built Coco-bot, a coconut-harvesting robot making farming safer and creating new income for rural workers.

For 100+ years, West Bengal’s Mathurapur has hosted Bhanga Mela, a fair where broken pots, cracked pans & old radios are repaired, reused & find new homes.

For nearly four decades, Dimbeswar Das has patrolled Kaziranga’s forests, facing bullets, floods, and death threats to keep the one-horned rhino alive.

In Raebareli, Anand Mishra left his city job and took a risk few dared — growing lemons instead of wheat. Years later, he’s earning five times more than before.

Long before sustainability became a buzzword, Onam traditions showed us how to live in harmony with nature — from banana leaf plates to flower pookalams.

In 1979, Satya Rani Chadha’s pregnant daughter was burnt alive over dowry. Denied justice, she fought 34 years, reshaping India’s laws and giving women a voice.