Gujarat

On World Water Day, Gazala Paul, founder of Ahmedabad-based NGO Samerth, talks about how she helped 97 villages in Kutch fight a massive water crisis through a community-led initiative.

Founded in 1971 with a Rs 1 lakh investment, Ajanta Orpat has grown over the last 50 years into a Rs 1,250 crore revenue giant.

Abhimanyu and Vardan Rathi from Surat, Gujarat, launched Sustainable Livelihood Initiative India (SLII) to sell their innovation, a water purifier made from graphene and recycled cell phone screens

Ahmedabad-based Jahnvi Trivedi spent 15 years paying visits to doctors to identify the cause of her chronic and crippling period pain. She was eventually diagnosed with endometriosis, which affects 176 million women across the world.

Surat is the second cleanest city in India today and a lot of the credit goes to the revolutionary changes former Surat Municipal Commissioner SR Rao instituted during his brief tenure in the mid-1990s.

In Gujarat's Ahmedabad, people prefer eating at Jashuben Shah Old Pizza rather than Domino's or Pizza Hut. But did you know that the iconic eatery was started by two enterprising women who invented a special 8-layered oven of their own?

Shamshad Zakir Hussain Mulla and her husband Zakir from Gujarat, gave up traditional farming to grow organic roses. Under their brand ‘Shama Gulkand’, they make and sell gulkand, rose water, and face packs

Surat-based Shruti Tibrewal launched Bebeburp in 2017 with her brother and husband to make organic and healthy baby food. The recipes she uses belong to her mother and grandmothers, and are free of preservatives

Magan Kamariya, a farmer from Gujarat’s Morbi village was struggling to sustain his family till jumbo guavas came to his rescue. Weighing about 1.5 Kg each, they helped him earn Rs 20 lakh in a year

An Ahmedabad-based architect couple, Bhadri and Snehal, who started tHE gRID Architects, has built Mitti Ke Rang, a restaurant from clay, turmeric, reclaimed jute and wood and more.