TBI Team

Learn how Lucknow’s Chaudhary Ram Karan turns plastic bottles into creative vertical gardens for vegetables, herbs, and flowers at home.

Aquaponics is a smart, soil-free farming method that lets you grow fresh vegetables and raise fish using 80% less water. Perfect for urban farmers, it’s sustainable, space-saving, and offers dual income. Here’s how you can start your own aquaponics system and grow more with less, right from your home.

Losing 80% mobility showed Soumita Basu how fashion excludes millions. Alongside her mother, she built ‘Zyenika’, an adaptive clothing brand restoring dignity and independence to disabled and elderly people through thoughtful, stylish design.

Three decades on, Navratri still belongs to Falguni Pathak. From a Navy ship stage to global fame, her voice and spirit continue to define India’s festive season.

From robotic boats to duckweed-powered wastewater treatment, five innovative ways that are reimagining river cleanup with community impact, proving that young changemakers can revive India’s lifelines.

Sonali Ghosh, Kaziranga’s first woman Field Director, is leading bold conservation efforts to protect one-horned rhinos from floods, poachers, and new threats.

A unique initiative under Project Chetna is using QR code lockets to reunite missing children and vulnerable adults, including those with Alzheimer’s.

From farmers and educators to doctors, water warriors, and young innovators — meet the nine changemakers honoured at Optum Presents The Better India Showcase 2025, supported by the M3M Foundation, whose vision is transforming millions of lives across India.

A quiet frenzy, heartfelt gratitude, and inspiring stories — here’s what unfolded behind the blue carpets at India’s largest celebration of changemakers.

Once threatened by poaching and tree-cutting, Elathur Lake in Erode is now home to 187 bird species and a proud Biodiversity Heritage Site — thanks to its people.