Kalki Subramaniam, founder of Sahodari Foundation, has spent over 16 years using art, literature, livelihood projects, and courtroom advocacy to build a life of dignity for India’s transgender community, one story at a time.
Bidisha Mahanta, Executive Director of Zubaan, on why documenting ordinary lives, from unpaid farm labor to confiscated phones, is the most radical thing a movement can do.
Through Himalayan Prayatn, Tarak Majumdar is helping first-generation tea garden students in Jalpaiguri access higher education, mentorship, and a sense of belonging.
From menstrual awareness to education and gender equality, Nischay Foundation is driving grassroots change in rural and tribal Jharkhand communities.
Sandeep Rai, founder of The Circle India, left a career in medicine to spend two decades building a movement that incubates local entrepreneurs to create high-quality schools for children from India’s most underserved communities.
Anusha Bharadwaj, founder of VOICE 4 Girls, has spent two decades building safe spaces where marginalized adolescent girls across India can question the rules written for them before they were old enough to read.
How Ravi Dhanuka, Aditya Tyagi, Shravan Kumar Jha, and Ranita Uppal built i-Saksham, a peer-led movement across five districts of Bihar that transforms young rural women into community change leaders by shifting the beliefs, relationships, and power dynamics that hold them back.
Vikas Gambhir, development sector advisor and SVP India partner, shares how two decades of work taught him that lasting grassroots impact begins with building strong institutions, not just funding programmes.
Guruprakash Sekar spent a decade watching India’s grassroots NGOs collapse under invisible system gaps, compliance overload, and digital isolation before he built People4Good, an organisation designed from the ground up to give nonprofits the technology, trust, and internal capacity they have always needed but never had.
Access Life’s free stay centres across 10+ Indian cities ensure that no child has to abandon cancer treatment because their family had nowhere to sleep, eat or rest.
