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Shweta Menon left her IT career to start Truly Tribal, a platform that revives India’s traditional crafts like Warli and Pichwai while ensuring fair earnings for artisans. Today, it supports over 500 artisans across 16 states, helping tribal art forms thrive with dignity and pride.

From a terrace workshop and 24 prototypes to 10,000 homes across 20 states, Uday Bhatia’s Rs 250 inverter bulb is helping rural families study, work, and live with dignity even during long power cuts.

After working for seven years at the Supreme Court, Meenakshi chose a different path of building a cafe run entirely by women, where food, confidence, and independence are served fresh every day.

Madurai-based Dr Swaminathan C runs a 'Doctor on Wheels' programme to take affordable and accessible healthcare to thousands of senior citizens in the city. He shares why he left his life in Canada to start this.

Over 30,000 successful cardiac surgeries colour Dr Ramakanta Panda’s professional archives. He shares more about silent heart attacks, staying calm in hustle culture and his personal fitness regime.

A former engineer, Lokesh Patade switched careers to introduce geranium cultivation in Chhattisgarh—creating eco-friendly air fresheners and inspiring rural change.

Once branded as “criminals”, Gujarat’s nomadic tribes lived without rights or recognition. Mittal Patel’s work has helped 7.5 lakh people gain homes, education, livelihoods, and dignity — turning invisibility into empowerment.

Advocate Varsha Deshpande has spent three decades fearlessly fighting female foeticide and gender violence, leading sting operations that brought notorious doctors to justice.

During Vadodara’s Vishwamitri flood mitigation, 410 eggs of crocodiles, turtles, and birds were carefully rescued and incubated to protect biodiversity. This conservation effort safeguarded 440 crocodiles and demonstrated how infrastructure projects can coexist with wildlife preservation.

They said the Desert Rose was too exotic. Too delicate. Not worth it. Jalandhar proved them all wrong. From a small village in Tamil Nadu, he built a blooming business around a plant that requires almost no maintenance, just sun, water, and love.