On the eve of the 75th Republic Day, the Indian government announced the list of winners of the Padma Awards 2024, the nation’s second-highest civilian honor. The Padma Awards conferred by the Government of India...
Category - The Change Blazers
Bindeshwar Pathak – Legend of Toilets and Sanitation
Approximately 4,500 to 5,000 years ago, the ancient Indian civilizations of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro in modern-day Pakistan, as well as Dholavira and Lothal in the Gujarat province of India, displayed remnants of...
The Tiger Man of India – Kailash Sankhala
Many of us know about Jim Corbett, who played a significant role in tiger conservation in India, and because a famous tiger reserve in Uttrakhand is named after him. Only a few of us would know about the man known as...
The Indian Environmentalist who deserve awards
Two Indian environmentalists, a 72-year-old tribal known as the ‘Encyclopedia of Forest’ and a 65-year-old farmer who has planted lakhs of plants in desert areas of Rajasthan, were conferred India’s...
2021 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Climate Change
This year Nobel Prize committee had a thing for climate, probably because of the IPCC report which came in August predicted “a code red for humanity” or due to global climate conference being held in Norway...