Delhi-based pastry chef Kishi Arora has a green oasis growing on her terrace that is popular on the internet. With sunflowers, grapevines and exotic plants sourced from the world over, she is weaving a green path of her own.
Interested in terrace gardening? Meet Bhubhaneshwar's Jayanti Sahu who has created a green paradise of over 450 plants of vegetables, fruits and flowers.
Amidst a paucity of funds and able to experiment just once a year, Dilip Baral, in Odisha, covered a tiring seven year journey to conceive a seed extractor machine for tomato and brinjal
"The reasons why the farmers were resorting to suicide seemed like issues that could be addressed – some spoke of not having money to educate their children while for some it was the lack of money for their daughter's marriage."
Remember the brinjal curry your mother made for lunch, the other day? Save for a few variations, it is probably what was eaten 4,000 years ago, by Harappans, thus making it the oldest curry in the world.