Modesty could very well be his second name. Seventy-one check dams, 55 percolation tanks, 33 ponds, 22 nullahs and 60 gully plugging - 241 rainwater harvesting projects in just nine months. But

The Tree of Authority of Pune s innovative strategies are changing the face of the city

Dada, as a child in a Marathi family, was a witness to the discordant practices. But unlike most people, he couldn't turn a Nelson's eye to existing conventions. Finally in 1958, he founded Swadhyaya

He shares his name with the father of the nation. But that's not where the similarity ends. If an incident in South Africa was to change Mahatma Gandhi's life forever, Gujarat's second Bapu's

Village Hatiyaniki. Fifteen-odd people have gathered to discuss water harvesting activities in the vicinity. But there's just one face among the crowd, which is conspicuous enough to attract

The convoluted laws of the country fail to tackle the menace caused by the exponentially growing and powerful plastic industry in India

Demand for all polymers is on the rise in India

The rag picker is the lowest rung in the dirty ladder of recycling

More than half of the plastic produced in India is used for packaging. Poly vinyl chloride forms a large part of the plastic consumption

The Ranganath Misra Committee s report on managing plastic waste is out. Will it fail to deliver like the earlier National Plastics Waste Management Task Force report?