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2025 - Present

People of Purpose: Meet 26-Year-Old Aanya Wig, the Founder Building Her Haq Into a Voice for Gender Equality

Aanya Wig is using Her Haq to bring menstrual health, public policy, and gender justice to young people who have never been part of these conversations before.

People of Purpose: Inside Poonam Muttreja’s People-First Leadership at Population Foundation of India

For over three decades, Poonam Muttreja has worked to shift India's population and public health conversation away from coercive control and toward women's informed choice, community agency, and evidence-based policy, one village, one story, and one norm at a time.

People of Purpose: Priya Varadarajan’s Durga Is Building Safer Public Spaces Through Community Action

Priya Varadarajan, founder of Durga, is using theatre, panic alarms and 15,000 trained bystanders to prove that safety in public spaces is not a woman's burden to carry alone.

‘We Feel Invalidated’: Former NCTP Member Rituparna Neog on the Transgender Amendment Act and Legal Erasure

Rituparna Neog on why the 2026 amendment marks a shift from recognition to restriction for India’s trans community.

Sonakshi Agarwal Is Rewriting India’s Classrooms by Putting Teachers at the Centre of Change

Sonakshi Agarwal, Director at Sterlite EdIndia Foundation, is working to fix India's education gap not by building more schools, but by strengthening the teachers already inside them.

People of Purpose: Akhila Somanath’s Tech4Good Community Is Transforming Social Impact Through Technology

Akhila Somanath co-founded Tech4Good Community to bridge the technology gap for India's nonprofits and built a movement rooted in open source, community and the belief that people always come before product.

People of Purpose: Jatin Lalit Singh’s Aruna Mithlesh Foundation Is Building Community Libraries Where Everyone Belongs

How Jatin Lalit Singh turned a pandemic detour into a free, 24-hour community library that now serves 6,000 members across eight villages in Uttar Pradesh, and why he believes it should never have been left to him alone.

People of Purpose: Meet Vimal Jat, Who Built Synergy Sansthan to Help Youth Lead, Organise, and Drive Change

Vimal Jat grew up as the first in his family to go to school in a village with no electricity; today he runs Synergy Sansthan, an organisation that has directly impacted over one lakh young people across Madhya Pradesh.

People of Purpose: How Dr. Antony Nellissery Is Transforming Education Through Sterlite EdIndia Foundation

Dr. Antony Nellissery, Head of Sterlite EdIndia Foundation, has spent decades proving that with the right support, every teacher can transform their school and every child can learn.

People of Purpose: Mehar’s Journey From a Curious Student to Building TinkerHub Foundation’s 30,000-Strong Tech Learning Community

A 30,000-member nonprofit that is quietly rewriting who gets to participate in India's technology economy, Mehar's story is one of curiosity that refused to stay private.