Maharashtra

Honoured with the Arjuna Award, Sarika Kale started playing Kho Kho at 13 and fought poverty to play over a hundred tournaments. Her story is as heart-wrenching as it is extraordinary.

Sharda Chouragade, a single mother from Nagpur sold vegetables and worked as a domestic help before starting her stall in 2004.

Be it roshogolla or sambar, tell us about that one food origin fight you just cannot stay out of.

Minakshi Walke is embracing the call to ‘vocal for local’, by popularising products made from locally available raw materials.

Amrita and Sanmitra harvest rare and exotic varieties of food like blue corn, purple carrots, yellow sweet potato, heirloom tomatoes, edible flowers, emerald-coloured kale and so on.

Varad appeals to travellers and motorists, “While travelling, please throw eggshells in the bushes adjoining the road. Yes, you can help nature even while driving in a car. We all can do our bit.”

“In situations like these, it’s important to help each other. We can truly overcome such adversity only as a community. By offering my services, I was being a responsible citizen and doing my duty, as well as earning some money.”

The idea behind plogging is to pick up trash while jogging or running so that you and the environment are fit. Here's how Pune Ploggers are acing this fitness regime.

In the crushingly frozen temperatures on Mount Everest, even small tasks such as wearing socks or lifting a bag can be tiring. So how did, IPS Suhail Sharma walk for nearly an hour with very low oxygen?

This nature-inclusive house in Alibaug also has a couple of medicinal and fruit-bearing trees that provide shade and keep the interiors cool.