People's Corner

Rakesh Shukla runs a sanctuary for over 800 stray dogs from all over the country and 90% of what it takes to run it is completely funded by Rakesh.[...]

Updesh Saluja is a fitness trainer and athlete who has been training Bollywood celebrities for close to a decade. He has been working on himself to qualify for Olympia so that he can win the competition and make India proud. [...]

When I started in early 2000’s, there were no female bartenders at all, not at least in Mumbai. The society sincerely obeyed it’s historical duty of filling the ears of my parents with negativities related to the profession, especially for women. Like, it’s unsafe for your daughter to come home at 5am, wear such clothes, blah blah and blah. [...]

Bharat Gothoskar is the founder of Khaki Tours, a team of young enthusiasts who are working on keeping the heritage alive and kicking in India. They are heritage evangelists who are organizing walks across the city to share unknown stories and facts about these places.[...]

In her schooling days, she had a keen interest in sports. “I represented my school in badminton and swimming. I was always a healthy child. But, somehow I wasn't accepted for being who I am. Unfortunately, our society is such, and that includes our parents. They think if a person is overweight, it's a huge taboo.” Neha said. [...]

Shankar Venkatraman is an organic farmer who is aiming at creating his own revolution by training farmers to not just farm organically but also by providing them fair compensation, food, shelter, sense of security and love.[...]

When it comes to dance, visually-impaired Swapnil likes to experiment a lot. He does hip-hop, Bollywood and contemporary.[...]

Tucked away in the hills of Dehradun, Deepak's Project Fuel has travelled far and wide with small activities and curriculum that are shared with people.[...]

Prashant feels that only when we truly know and understand that we have limited time on earth and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will begin to live. [...]

Greensole recycles discarded shoes into comfortable footwear and provides them to children in need. [...]

A happiness coach & motivational speaker, a graphic designer, a TEDx speaker, a singer and music composer, a writer, a Wheelchair warrior, Sai Kaustuv has multiple talents. [...]

Sumaira says, “I started working against noise pollution at a time when no one was talking about its harmful effects. People did not realize the kind of impact that it can have on their health and mental peace. I started out alone with a noise meter in my hand and visited all possible places, traffic spots, celebration pandals, to measure noise. I was shocked to find that permissible limits of 55 decibels was a joke,” [...]

Brought up in Nagpur, Mithilesh's tryst with coffee began in the corridors of his school. [...]

With the opening of Bidisha Basu's Leaping Windows Café and physical comics library in Versova in 2012, it has since turned into a space for wider community activities such as workshops, book readings, a book donation drive, charitable activities and much more. [...]

Change and reform have been words we often use lightly. We all aim for both within our lives and in our surroundings but not a lot of us really do much about what we feel or how we feel. But then again, there are a few people, not like the rest of the world, the reformers, who set paths for people to follow. Apurva Kothari is one them, whose life changed after reading the dreadful numbers on farmer suicides while crunching numbers in Silicon Valley. Apurva has now started one of the very few eco-friendly and fair-trade t-shirt/ clothing company in India called ‘No Nasties’[...]

She is a National Level Windsurfing champion, PADI Dive Master, Endurance horse rider and sailor. Malaika’s expeditions and adventures have taken her across all 7 continents, and she is the youngest person to participate in research expeditions to Antarctica and the Arctic and is India’s youngest pilot. She works to empower women, victims of violence, disadvantaged youth and children from criminally labelled tribal communities through her organization ‘Kriya: Empowerment through Action.’ She is the Director of the Indo-Pak Climate Peace conference and the Project Lead for the Manta Trust in India. As of 2017, Malaika is also the Founder and Director of Untamed Planet Films - a production house creating innovative and compelling natural history content.[...]

After working with a number of NGOs and animal shelters, Archita decided to start FFMA.[...]

Life for Kartikey Sharma, a young graffiti artist and a painter from Mumbai, changed the day he was diagnosed with cancer in February, 2016. [...]

Hydroponics is the method to grow fresh and healthy food, and that too without the use of soil. Yes, growing vegetables without soil with a 100% chemical-free method![...]

23-years old Opencube Labs’ founder, Suraj Kumar Jana, is the brain behind one of India’s first ever CanSat program[...]

Shuchi Muley is one of the 15 painters in the world to have worked as a painter in the international movie Loving Vincent, produced by the Oscar-winning studios BreakThruFilms and Trademark Films. [...]