Uttar Pradesh

When Samya Gupta was sexually harassed while travelling in a bus, she decided not to let her perpetrator get away with just an apology. Instead, she bravely took him to task to ensure she got justice.

A Noida-based company is recycling cigarette waste right from the paper and filter to ash and tobacco. Started by two friends in their twenties, the company is fighting a huge environmental hazard. This is how!

The City of Nawabs has a long and rich history of noteworthy personalities engaged in various facilities. Here is one of them, a living icon of our times – the woman who has been called “the iconic face of Indian womanhood in post-Independence India”.

Tara Patkar and his team of volunteers started Roti Bank to make sure no one sleeps hungry in the town of Mahoba. Roti Bank collects food from over 500 households and feeds more than 1000 people every day.

It's time to take a closer look at what's on our platter, where it comes from and what we are feeding our families. And that is exactly what six families in Noida did. Worried that the food their children were eating was laden with chemicals, they decided to take up organic farming to source farm fresh vegetables for themselves !

Stories from the heartland of UP are invariably about living on the margins. However, where women have come together to form Self Help Groups (SHGs) and stepped on to the economic ladder, the narrative is changing.

For those who happen to be in Lucknow and want to experience the city's culinary culture, here is a list of scrumptious must try delicacies from the 'City of Nawabs' as well the iconic eateries they can be tried at. As it is said, the Lucknowi kitchen is the gift that keeps on giving!

Disturbed by the conditions in her ancestral village, this accomplished woman gave up on a corporate career to start a school for children.

Growing up on the edge of Lucknow city in the 1970s, I was fortunate to be mentored by an extraordinary teacher who taught me to how to value learning everything.

A Class 7-pass book stall owner from a humble background, Santosh Pandey authored a book based on the Ramayana with the help of his friend Vinod Cherian.