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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A dropout who came back and built a foundation that has sent 3,000 students to the world’s top universities.
Anushree Dash walked away from a conventional career, founded ADiBha She Vision, and has since spent her life building spaces where women are no longer conditioned to stay silent, endure quietly, or fight alone.
From rural villages in Haryana to fellowship cohorts spanning 23 countries, Meghna Joshi is proving that skill, empathy, and purpose can build livelihoods that last.
Vineet Nayar’s teacher-first, offline innovations at Sampark Foundation deliver scalable, high-impact education to over 2 crore children in India’s government schools despite resource constraints.
