Chennai

As apartment dwellers everywhere are finding out this summer, India's cities have begun to run out of water. Here are five question you should ask the builder before investing your hard-earned money!

Imagine how convenient it would be to dispose our trash if we got alerts about when the nearest garbage bin is due to be cleared. Well, that's what this engineer is trying to enable! #Innovation #IIT

“Thousands of litres of water was just going waste even as Tamil Nadu is struggling with severe water shortage. That was my cue to do something in my personal capacity to save fresh water,” says the enterprising civil engineer. #ChennaiWaterCrisis #HarvestRain

The architects strongly believe that sustainable architecture is not limited to just the design of buildings.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. And so, Dr Sekhar Raghavan is visiting housing complexes every day, hoping to use the upcoming monsoons to recharge the groundwater levels of Tamil Nadu's capital.

Every home on the street segregates its waste. While their wet waste is processed into compost every quarter, plastic waste is collected and recycled.

In the midst of one of the worst water crises in Chennai, VK Raviraja has more than enough water for drinking and other household needs. What's more, the water he has collected is purer than your standard RO water! #ChennaiWaterCrisis

What started as a fascination for Aswatha Biju after seeing a picture of an ammonite fossil in encyclopedia soon turned into a passion that had no plans of dying done.

The store gained popularity for its quality of books and diversity of subjects, for its proprietor had the skill to track down rare and in-demand books.

“150 years ago, I would have been burned at the funeral pyre with my husband’s body," A Lalitha had famously said in a New York conference. Instead, she went on to make history!