Karnataka

Here is how the centuries-old Bidri art made its way through Persian sultans to India, and how it continues to mesmerise connoisseurs today.

Asha S of Karnataka-based NGO Arohana has worked tirelessly for two decades towards water conservation and protection. With her work, households have been able to conserve water, earn more, and revive their agricultural lands.

Karnataka-based couple Valliammal Krishnaswamy and Rajan Palaniappan run Anisha, an NGO that trains farmers and school students in organic farming, helping hundreds take it up and earn a better living.

Senthil Kumar Doss, along with his team, worked on the dining vault at Sentinel Adventures in Karnataka, without cutting down a single tree in the process.

Architect Sanjay Deshpande from Hubli, Karnataka, has been harvesting solar energy at his home and office for the past two years. He explains what it is like to live life off the grid.

In a government school in Karnataka, a student-run bank is teaching children the value of saving, investing, depositing, and withdrawing money. Here’s a look at the School Bank of Mullur, started by teacher C S Sathish.

A team of engineering students from the Mysuru Vidyavardhaka Engineering College have come up with a solar mobile refrigerator for vegetable vendors, which is a low-cost way of storing vegetables for a longer time.

Karnataka entrepreneur Vidhya Y, who has been blind since birth, learned from her own struggles with her disability to empower thousands of visually impaired children with Vision Empower, an enterprise that encourages these students to pursue STEM education

From spreading awareness and sensitizing farmers, monitoring fields for rescue, initiating a contractual ban on child labour, incentivising those who refrained from it to implementing penalties upon violation, Bayer's Child Care Program (CCP) has been tackling the problem of child labour with a multi-layered approach.

Janhavi Kulkarni founded KaleNale to popularise ‘khun’, a fabric that contains both silk and cotton. Her efforts have led to orders from Switzerland, Germany, US and more.