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Nestled among the foothills of the Kumaon region of Uttarakhand, The Retreat is a guesthouse that was made by a German who escaped Germany after a failed assassination attempt of Adolf Hitler.

Dunu Roy, who runs Hazards Centre in Delhi, talks about SNS Sastry’s documentary ‘I Am 20’, and how he turned to a life of urban and rural development to make engineering meaningful.

Pankaj Mahajan from Maharashtra was only in Class 4 when he started chewing tobacco and smoking beedi. His future seemed dismal until football rescued him.

P Sukumaran, from Kerala, has been a walking librarian for the last 41 years, going to at least 35 houses every day to deliver books to women and children.

Implementing Finland’s and Estonia's ICT education model for Indian students of government schools, Payal Manan Rajpal's Robotex India is bridging the digital divide in those communities that are often left behind by our public education system.

Gujarat entrepreneur Shreyans Kokra launched his startup Canvaloop to process agro waste into eco-friendly and sustainable fibre in a zero-waste process. Here’s how he did it

Sneha Shahi from Gujarat is one of the 18 young activists affiliated with UNEP’s Plastic Tide Turner Campaign and winner of the Youth for Earth Award.

Wildlife warrior Ramki Sreenivasan started the non-profit Conservation India (CI) and Friends of the Amur Falcon to stop the illegal poaching of over one lakh of the threatened migratory birds in Nagaland.

Under Breakthrough India's Dhakal Do campaign, youth volunteers such as Nargis in Delhi's Sangam Vihar colony are helping women fight gender-based violence through much-needed intervention.

Thianal village in Odisha is the second village in the state to attain this status and the first in its district. A people's initiative has prevented children below the legal age to wed.