Portia Putatunda left a career in Mumbai and moved to Komic village in Spiti to start a free boarding school under Planet Spiti Foundation that provides food, shelter, education, and clothing to underprivileged children.
Started as a lockdown project to help the women members of a local self help group in Kodaikanal, Smriti Lamech and her teams makes rag dolls that honour feminist icons like Kalpana Chawla, Savitribai Phule, Frida Kahlo and more.