women empowerment

Lucknow-based Greenwear Fashion, founded by Abhishek Pathak, produces a variety of fabrics, including Khadi, woven on solar looms and handlooms, and also creates different types of garments using these fabrics.

Mohanlal and Bhagwanti Vermohal founded MV Spices in Jodhpur in the 70s. What started as a handful of handmade spices being sold on a bed sheet outside Mehrangarh Fort is today a world-famous spice business with four stores that offer over 120 products, being helmed by eight gritty women

Ravi Prasad from Hariharpur in Uttar Pradesh, started Malawa Kela Resa Utpadan Laghu Udyog Kendra that sells footwear, hats, carpets and other items made from banana waste

Author Snigdha Parupudi's new book, A Silent Revolution - The Journey of the Srinivasan Services Trust, chronicles the two-decade-long journey of rural development initiated by Srinivasan Services Trust (SST).

Move over, Barbie. A 78-year-old woman entrepreneur from Gujarat, Ranjanben Bhat makes stunning hand-crafted dolls from cloth that are inspired from India's diverse culture.

Hiresha Verma's startup Hanzen International helps women across Uttarakhand earn stable livelihood through mushroom farming, growing varieties such as oyster, milky, and portobello, as well as medicinal mushrooms like shiitake, ganoderma, cremini and enoki varieties. She also sells produce in different parts of India through Han Agrocare

Mumbai-based Dr Marcus and Dr Raina Ranney realised a huge amount of COVID medicines were being wasted as 'unused' after recovery. So they collected and redistributed it to those who couldn't afford them.

Quitting her job in Bengaluru, Pratibha Krishnaiah from Bengaluru moved to Uttarakhand and transformed the face of a remote mountain village through her NGO, Himalayan Blooms

Stella, Uma, Silvarani, Rajkumari, Geetha and Saroja from Poompuhar village in Tamil Nadu took a step for rural women empowerment through 'Dolphin'

Madhu Priya, a Chennai resident recently shared a viral post talking about the struggles her parents had to go through to educate their daughters.