S.N. Gananath, a scientist and educator in South India, is reducing "math phobia" among school children. He has developed...
Realising that there will never be sufficient doctors to treat patients in India individually, Sujay is completely...
Manoj Bhatt is creating an income-generation based model of conservation which will generate supplementary cash income...
Vandana Gopikumar has successfully demonstrated that one can develop treatment, care and rehabilitation strategies for...
Milesh Hamlai is creating a new system of community-based rehabilitation for the mentally ill, by employing religious...
In order to spread consumer awareness to rural areas, Anant Sharma plans to train and create a network of 1,000 local...
Through his One Village One Computer (1V1C) initiative, Anil Shaligram is making information technology relevant and...
70% of the rural population in developing countries has no choice but to rely on the private sector, which may or may not...
Biplab Paul has come up with a cost-effective and affordable solution to water scarcity that provides a reliable system...
Ritwick Dutta is restoring transparency and accountability to India’s Environmental Impact Assessment processes in order...
While the potential industrial market for natural fibers in India is $ 3.7 million, it has so far been leveraged only as...
Ramesh is bringing valuable, affordable and high quality houses to the most disadvantaged rural areas through an...
Dr. Ashwin Naik, the co-founder and CEO of Vaatsalya, aims to provide affordable and quality healthcare services to India...
Beginning with highway rescue, Dr. Subroto Das is creating for the first time in the history of South Asia, emergency...
While the shortcomings in education are a national concern, school is still the experience that children throughout India...
Lewitt recognizes that despite the promise of Activity Based Learning (ABL), it has not spread to low-income schools in...
Rajendra Joshi’s organization, Saath, creates public, private and citizen sector partnerships to transform the slums of...
In order to address low success and retention rates of rural children in schools, Balaji Sampath is spreading a new way...
As competition for the resources in the forests of the Western Ghats increases, and the stakes increase for the...
In recent years, India’s government has built many dam projects, blocking rivers to create massive reservoirs, in the...
Reshma is providing the early voice and leadership for persons living with mental illness to speak and advocate for their...
Renu Appachu's sexual health clinics target men who are key to the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.
Indrani Chakravarty is designing the first institute in India to combine research with practical work and care for the...
Paul Basil identifies promising rural innovations, develops them into enterprises, and enables their diffusion through...
Chetna Gala Sinha is empowering women in drought prone areas of rural India by inculcating entrepreneurial skills and...
To increase sustainability of micro-enterprises in India, Anup Nair has created local production and supply systems...
English and Hindi dailies in India do not have the resources and mechanisms to be able to source stories from rural and...
By redesigning truck terminals into modern well-equipped centers that cater to the needs, rights, and safety of the...
Tulika Das works to improve the lives of people with disabilities in rural India. Through a unique integrative approach,...
Blind since childhood, Dipendra Manocha has used technology to build a communications and training infrastructure that...
Harish Hande is uplifting underserved populations by selling, servicing, and financing clean energy that improves their...
Urvashi Sahni and Randolph Wang are matching high-quality pedagogy with low-cost technology to link quality teaching in...
Kapil Mondol is moving beyond traditional approaches to microfinancing by introducing microbanking to villagers....
Vineet Khanna (India 1993) is developing a job placement program that includes technical on-the-job training for...
This profile is dedicated to the memory of Nitin More, founder of LEARN Mahila Kamgar Sangathana. It is his passion,...
Bhargavi Davar aims to restore the dignity and autonomy of persons with mental illness by reforming outdated laws and...
Noorjehan is organizing Muslim women in India for the first time to collectively overcome sociocultural limitations that...
Shivram Pailoor is expanding the agricultural community by bringing together everyone working in the sector and enabling...
Kaushlendra is overhauling the vegetable supply chain at both ends – production and sales. Starting in the state of...
A dedicated children's rights activist, Suchitra Sheth is bringing major changes to Gujarat's state-run homes for...
With little or no access to quality English education, the rural youth demographic in India is barred from equal...
Through her education curriculum and initiatives to build a healthy relationship between students and their community,...
Maxine Berntsen is an American-born linguist who moved to India in the early 1960s, settled in Phaltan, Maharashtra, and...
In the countryside of West Bengal, where arid conditions and landlessness combine to cause hunger and exacerbate...
Sharath has launched an international movement of teacher changemakers who are innovating, implementing and influencing...
Arjun is transforming communities in remote conflict areas from passive witnesses to proactive voices and forces that...
Kallol Ghosh has developed a complete network of services designed to integrate children living with HIV/AIDS into...
The poor quality of education in public schools is leading parents to abandon public schools and opt for private schools...
Belinda Wright has pioneered innovative and trans-formative conservation strategies using state-of-the-art technology,...
Anil Agarwal is raising public consciousness of environmental issues through publications in order to create a sensible...
Through multimedia awareness campaigns, policy advocacy, and partnerships with citizen organizations, corporate entities...
Sonali Ojha is empowering street children to create and sustain a vision of the future through an innovative and...
In response to a growing demand for palliative care, Dr. Suresh Kumar sees the need for healthcare to go beyond standard...
Ravindranath “Ravi” is turning villages and communities in flood-ravaged regions into institutions prepared to predict,...
Dr. Latha Anantha is drawing from her deep understanding of complex river basin systems to apply the concept of...
Samina is building an inclusive and accountable education system, opening up access for children to an equitable...
Ravichandra Raju (Ravi), a trained social worker, provides poor families with access to technology for disability...
Already an educational toy designer and manufacturer, Anjana Batra wants to develop and propagate the use of a range of...
Thumswamy Joseph David, himself an active inventor, is launching India's first professional association of inventors, The...
Anuja Gupta is providing middle- and upper-middle class women survivors of sexual child abuse with a forum for opening up...
Javed Abidi is working to make legislative rights and economic opportunities a reality for the disabled in India. He is...
Saumyadeep Datta is organizing indigenous youth groups to conduct conflict resolution and environmental preservation in...
Working through state "remand" homes and citizen groups, Sohini Chakraborty introduces new and much needed...
Sonam Jorgyes is empowering the Ladakh agricultural community to use technological innovations and local resources in a...
Ayyappa Masagi helps poor farmers improve their economic condition by teaching them to take charge of their water...
By putting pens and paper in the hands of Indian farmers, Shree Krishna Padre is building a field of grassroots...
Elango is unleashing local village leaders towards building economies of permanence within rural India. Having...
Sugandha Sukrutaraj founded AMBA a registered Trust, and AMBA Centers for the Economic Empowerment of the Intellectually...
Vijay Pratap Singh Aditya and his social enterprise, Ekgaon Technologies, are creating technology platform’s to provide...
Anshu K. Gupta is facilitating an economic bridge between urban, wealthy India and impoverished, rural India by simply...
Judy Frater believes that the traditional craftsperson is the best designer to make the work of the craftsperson...
Rajeev George offers a viable solution to the acute housing problems faced by the urban poor. His unique approach to city...
Drawing on her seventeen years of experience as a health professional in rural India, Dr. Mira Sadgopal develops...
By setting up rural labor associations to monitor the transparent and effective implementation of the new National Rural...
Umesh Malhotra’s vision is to inspire children to read more and improve their ability to absorb their education. His...
Haushala Prasad Mishra is spearheading a workers' movement in India for occupational safety from his position as a...
Chingmak Kejong combines modern values and traditional governance to involve all sectors of society in the process of...
Zeena Johar is reinventing the rural primary care system from being government-run and heavily subsidized to being viable...
By encouraging awareness of fluorosis in both medical and local communities and by creating accessible low-cost...
Consumer health advocate Anil Pilgaonkar is working to ensure that Indian consumers have access to practical, unbiased,...
Ashraf Patel has created a multifaceted curriculum for schools and colleges that sensitizes Indian urban youth to...
Recognising that the lack of participation of Indian youth in mainstream social discourse is the flip side of an...
Minal Lonkar-Kavishwar, an energetic and creative psychologist, is introducing animal-assisted therapy in India to...
Paromita Goswami is uniting the poorest rural farmers with their middle-class neighbors to promote the rights of the...
Almost 85 percent of ragpickers in the city of Mumbai are women who belong to the Dalit landless laborers community, the...
Choitresh Kumar Ganguly is showing people how to carry out protection and regeneration of degraded, drought-ridden lands...
Dr. Bibhab Kumar Talukdar is leading a new, integrated conservation movement to address topics like ecosystem goods and...
Shubhendu Sharma is changing the framework of urban landscaping and afforestation by influencing two key groups—...
Abhijit Bardhan is using his established networks to launch a grassroots movement to train teachers to change the way...
Deep prejudice against people with HIV/AIDS in India leads to patterns of discrimination and maltreatment even in the...
Rashida Begum's difficult early life motivated her to help the virtually powerless women of India improve their economic...
Dr. Chauhan, an Ayurvedic physician by qualification, combines the ancient Indian traditional practice of Ayurveda with...
Beginning with the Lambada tribe in the South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, Murali Mohan is developing new ways to...
Dr. Sundara Narayana Patro is building up a model statewide environmental organization that utilizes and supplements...
The 2009 Right to Education Act makes free elementary education the right of every child between the ages of 6 to 14...
Ashok Row Kavi is providing a formal platform for gays and lesbians–a group left out of mainstream life in socially...
By stepping beyond the confines of a religious mission concerned chiefly with formal schooling, Fr. K.A Thomas is...
Rama and Padmanabha Rao are providing a viable and attractive solution to multigrade and multilevel learning common in...
Rajiv Khandelwal’s Aajeevika Bureau (Livelihood Bureau) is among the first attempts in north India to provide support...
Bezwada Wilson is leading a nationwide movement to abolish the dehumanizing practices of manual toilet cleaning and...
Anselm Rosario has been working with runaway or abandoned street-dwelling children who survive as scavengers in the South...
Ganesh Pangare is creating a national and regional framework for farmers to begin managing the public irrigation systems...
In Goa, an international tourist hotspot, Roland Martins is training small service providers in the tourism industry to...
Parul and Falgun Sheth have adopted a multifaceted strategy to strengthen India's existing municipal education system as...
By introducing educational reforms in government-run schools, Sonam Wangchuk is encouraging communities to reinforce the...
Starting with the area of watershed management, youthful engineer Prasad Rasal is pioneering the field of appropriate...
Anil Singh's six-step training model develops entrepreneurship in disadvantaged communities and addresses the...
Srinivas Chary Vedala is reforming how water is delivered in Indian cities, with the goal of improving poor people’s...
By creating ‘extrinsic rewards’ for products and services purchased by communities, Akanksha is nurturing positive...
Ashru Kumar Mandal, for 19 years a village school teacher in West Bengal, India, has developed a number of ways villagers...
Dr. G.N.S. Reddy is reversing urban migration in India by increasing the economic opportunities for small and medium...
Suman Sahai, who describes herself as an amalgam of Indian and scientist, rose to be a professor of genetics at Germany's...
Muthu, an environmental toxicologist, still close to his roots as a Harijan (untouchable) boy, growing up poor in rural...
Alphonso Jemonie has worked with hundreds of young rag pickers, giving them a place to assemble and a place to take...
The telephone is one of the keys to social equity in rural India. Through the simple and cost-effective GramPhone, Madan...
Kalyan Paul is providing local communities in the central and western Himalayas with the organizational, technical, and...
A firm believer in the participatory approach to service management systems, Ashok Bharti is founding community-based...
Bastu Rege is working with the informal labor force in the stone quarries of Maharashtra, a population estimated to be 3....
Ashif is building a national movement to abolish the unconstitutional caste hierarchy in India, with community leaders...
Gaurav Singh intervenes with the most important stakeholders in India’s education system: students, teachers, parents,...
Mihir Bhatt is redefining disaster mitigation by viewing it as a continuous process of social development and community...
Dr. Vibha Gupta is bringing the benefits of science and technology to India's rural women in an effort to raise economic...
Since India’s booming microfinance sector has failed to include the poorest of the poor in its economic development...
Priti Pai, working with one of the chief colonies of prostitutes in Bombay, is developing coherent, practical model ways...
Aparna is creating a global microretail chain that features disadvantaged women as both suppliers and sellers. Her retail...
Purobie Bose is providing care to disabled children in India through a new, inter-disciplinary training program that...
Ketan Deshpande is unleashing the potential in India’s youth by changing India’s policies related to career guidance and...
Dr. U. Jaikumaran is working with agriculture laborers in India to prepare the agriculture sector to meet the country’s...
A former national rugby player, Matthew Spacie is bringing recreational sports to children living in poor, urban...
Minal Doshi is reversing the tragic national practice of neglecting children's disability to the point when it is too...
Shaheen Mistry is providing engaging supplemental education for poor children living in slums. By exposing them to...
Vineet Rai is working to establish socially motivated venture capitalists as a new asset class in India to unlock the...
Through interventions based on modern technology in Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, and Orissa, India, Rikin Gandhi...
Dinesh Kumar Mishra is organizing communities in flood-prone areas of India to remember local, decentralized ways of...
A self-taught "medical detective," Dr. Krishnamachari is leading India's fight against the disease fluorosis by training...
Maharukh Adenwalla, a lawyer, has mounted a child rights campaign through individuals, organizations, and the judicial...
Kiran Kulkarani (1999) is introducing a model grain bank that adapts to rural cultural modes and empowers rural...
G.L. Janardhana is a long-time organizer and activist farmer who now seeks to persuade other farmers to convert waste...
Yambem Laba is mobilizing the youths of poor and neglected Manipur for community and environment projects.
Rahul Banerjee is formalizing language in order to revive interest and enthusiasm among tribal people for their culture...
Kitayun Rustom and Rashneh Pardiwala run imaginative campaigns to protect the environment, linking advocacy and legal...
Geeta Ramanujam is injecting new life into Indian classrooms by reviving the art of storytelling–a cultural tradition...
Ved Arya’s new model for rural development relies on collaboration between government, citizen organizations, donor...
Mohammad Amin of India's Orissa State is creating economic self-help cooperatives supported by an alternative banking...
Anthropologist Jayaprakash Rao is using his advocacy skills to develop a citizen-based strategy for sustainable forest...
Adarsh, schooled in Economics in the USA, is providing venture capital to small agricultural and craft producers who have...
Influenced by Gandhian thought, A.R. Palanisamy is developing the first comprehensive rehabilitation program for children...
Deep Purokayastha is working for the protection and care of India’s impoverished itinerant railway children by involving...
In dozens of urban slums in India, Sarat Babu Vasireddy has initiated an educational movement of decentralized "...
Avinash Shirke is leading an assault on urban biases and anachronistic methods in Indian social work education. In order...
Piyush Tewari is creating a volunteer-based citizen emergency response system to road accidents that is geared toward...
Armed with a formal legal education, Shakil Ahmed is making Mumbai's (Bombay) municipal government more accountable to...
Swapnil is changing the widespread practice of open defecation in urban slums, by strategically influencing key emotional...
Dr. Vibha Marfatia is working to create a network of peer educators to dispel myths about male sexuality and encourage...
Nidhi Prabha Tewari is transforming the political process in India from a patronage system to one that emphasizes policy...
Formerly an investment banker and venture capitalist, Vishal Talreja has built a network of volunteers that offer...
A trained psychologist and mental health activist, Ratnaboli Ray is working to transform India's state mental...
By using veterinarians to restructure the economics of small-scale animal husbandry, Dr. Pradip Sarmah is opening a new...
Pallavi is unlocking the power that is embedded in the potential collaboration of the government, private companies and...
Sriram envisions a world where every consumer has the information and awareness to make socially and environmentally...
Andreas D'Souza is demonstrating methods that he hopes will enable a national movement of organized grassroots...
Hanumappa Sudarshan has been working with communities at the margin, demonstrating how they can transform their lives...
R. Kannan is showing highland villagers and farmers in Tamil Nadu how to "hold the forest," grow crops, and...
Rama (left) and Padmanabha (right) Rao are providing a viable and attractive solution to multigrade and multilevel...
Working with health insurance companies, Mukteshwari “Mukti” Bosco is establishing a comprehensive health education and...
Sunil Khairnar is bringing new resources and valuable networks to agricultural entrepreneurs in India. By providing the...
Ravindra Shetye is connecting middle-class investors and poor agricultural workers in an innovative plan to turn derelict...
Laxman Singh is building water conservation and natural resource management systems for rural communities in drought-...
Professor Susheela Bhan is working through government schools in war-ravaged Kashmir to forge a new nonviolent identity...
Pradeep Ghosh has designed a social security system that incorporates the financial and community realities of the Indian...
Naginbhai Shah enables poor patients, who cannot afford to pay their medical bills in hospitals, get access to finance....
George Abraham is helping the visually impaired reach their full potentials. His Vision Enhancement Center provides blind...
Drawing on over a decade of successful experience working with small local groups to stop large-scale lumbering and other...
Isidore Phillips is leading India's state governments to introduce workable child rights programs and thus convert...
Sunil Abraham is providing web services and products that are affordable and effective for the Indian voluntary sector....
Pravin Khandpasole is creating a legal, social and policy framework to recognize victims and their families as key...
Karan Grover is bringing school students in western India into meaningful contact with their natural environment by way...
Brij Kothari has leveraged the ubiquitous presence of television in rural India and the billion-strong Indian population’...
Pranjal Baruah is organizing farmers in Assam around mushroom cultivation. He puts farmers in control of their produce...
Based in the violence-torn state of Manipur, Babloo Loitongbam has designed a human rights curriculum that equips...
Svati Bhogle has created a distribution system to counter the inefficient use of cooking stoves by street food vendors in...
In rural India, villagers live without easy access to trade, government, business, and health information. This makes...
The use of mobile gaming for the dual purpose of education and entertainment is a new idea in India. Hilmi Quraishi is...
In India, secondary schooling is only available in large urban centers. Rural teens who pursue a college education must...
Ramya believes that to truly transform the quality of education in India, teaching as a profession needs significant...
Samuel Goldman has invented an inexpensive, universal solar-powered lighting solution which will reduce health hazards...
Most states in India criminalize beggary to banish “destitutes” from the streets to state run “homes.” This...
As more Indians migrate to cities, local municipalities are struggling to effectively respond to cities growing...
Amlan Ganguly is helping children in slum areas of West Bengal to lead their communities in improving health, sanitation...
Secure access to markets can bring many of the world’s informal workers out of poverty. Arbind Singh gives urban poor...
Ashok Kadam (1999) is crafting a grassroots-driven model to make industrial expansion in eco-zones of the country...
Sanjeev Kumar is socially and economically empowering women from the poorest communities in the mountain and desert...
Sharafat Azad is addressing the gaping hole in occupational health hazard prevention, treatment and rehabilitation in...
Kailash Satyarthi is fighting the use of child labor by creating domestic and international consumer resistance to...
A pioneer in the field of HIV prevention and care in India, Anjali Gopalan has stepped in to fill the deepest gap that...
John Abraham is leading the rural poor in Maharashtra to occupy and stake a formal claim on unused government land, with...
Sachidanand Bharati, a key Chipko activist and environmental crusader, is organizing women into groups of green police,...
Preeti, who is herself blind, is developing an aerobic program for visually impaired children in order...
Gita Ramaswamy, working in the deeply troubled south central India state of Andhra Pradesh, is showing systematically how...
Prasanta, a trained medical doctor, realized that matters of life and death are often in the hands of the communities...
Rohit Baluja is training drivers, engineers, traffic police, and all who use Indian roads to develop a positive "road...
M.B. Nirmal (India 1990) is considered a world authority in "People's Participation in Environmental Management." His...
By creating a large resource base of new ‘role models’ or mentors for underprivileged children, Sriram Ayer is...
Sunanda Mane is bridging the gap between education imparted in secondary schools and real-life skills required in rural...
Ramji Raghavan’s vision is to build an India of tinkerers, problem-solvers and creators who are humane, anchored and...
Vivek Gilani is spurring individual accountability to achieve a sustained balance in global carbon emissions. Vivek is...
Anuradha Kapoor has developed a model volunteer-based program to combat violence against women with integrated support...
In 1992 Indu Capoor started Centre for Health Education Training and Nutrition Awareness (CHETNA) in Ahmedabad. CHETNA...
Roma Malik has worked closely with forest tribes, local authorities, and the judicial system to design a forest...
Santosh Gondhalekar, a young engineer who has been working on social problems since secondary school, is demonstrating an...
Priya Agrawal’s initiative, Antarang, is challenging the paradigms in career linkages for children from low income...
In response to the absence of support for the impoverished elderly in India, Gautam Bharadwaj has designed a new system...
Pralhad is helping India's industrial workers attain the health care services guaranteed to them by law. By teaching...
Sanjay Bapat has created a full-featured virtual space for individuals and groups promoting development and social...
In rural India Mina Das is enabling women and their daughters to be self-sufficient by giving them the skills, confidence...
Throughout India, Sheilu Srinivasan is mobilizing "dignitarians" (men and women over 50) in a movement to provide...
Parshuram M.L. is fighting against the heinous problem of child trafficking in India, exposing trafficking networks,...
Krishna Mishra is changing Indian farmer’s quality of life by turning farming into a modern profitable livelihood...
Tarak Kate is introducing bio-diverse, non-chemical agricultural techniques to small farmers to help them optimize use of...
Ram is generating a systems-changing way of delivering credit services to the poorest individuals by blending peer-to-...
Paramita believes communities living in red light areas in India continue to experience the highest rate of violence and...
Aromar Revi is producing a comprehensive report and a film series on the state of and possible policies for human...
Sharad Sharma is introducing the use of comics across India as a low-cost medium through which unheard millions can raise...
By organizing female vendors to fight exploitation and realize their market potential, Sunita Bagal is creating...
Pratima Joshi is using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology to survey and map city slums, generating critical...
Ishita Khanna is building a green economy in the remote villages of India’s high Himalayas. In response to the region’s...
Hasina Kharbhih created the nationally and internationally acknowledged Meghalaya Model, a comprehensive tracking system...
Dr. Sagari Ramdas, a young veterinarian, is introducing controlled, environmentally sustainable approaches to animal...
Prema Gopalan is empowering women to build bridges between facilitating policy at the government level and taking...
Ashok Kumar Rau is making society at large responsible for people living with HIV/AIDS. His intricate program offers...
As thousands of children migrate annually from rural India to join the millions of children working in cities, Damodar...
Mathew is helping the recycling industry in India meet its supply gap by creating a new system of emotional rewards and...
Hasina Khan, an Indian Muslim who overcame her family's conservative views on women in society, has formed a powerful...
Enakshi Ganguly is introducing analysis of government spending and monitoring of child rights activity in parliament as...
Sunita Satyarthia, a lawyer from Jaipur, Rajasthan, is using strategic combinations of the law, the press, and...
Suparna Gupta is designing processes that make it possible to act on the provisions of the landmark Juvenile Justice (...
Abhishek Ray is using the emerging genre of Universal Design to engage with builders, architects, city planners and...
Jyoti Sharma is closing a generational gap in water resource management knowledge by developing a citizen-based water...
Anil is lifting the veil on a whole problem of human experience in developing countries and that no one else has- that of...
Janaki Rajan, working within the government school system to improve the quality of education and to increase the low...
Amol Goje is enabling rural communities in India to participate effectively in the new economy, driven by computers and...
The traditional approach to tackle the problem of gender based discrimination has been to support women directly through...
Kavitha Krishnamoorthy is creating India’s first “barrier-free” public play spaces that are inclusive to children with...
"Gokulan," as he is known, is improving the access to and quality of ophthalmology in India by re-introducing traditional...
Pushkin Phartiyal works on rural livelihood and sustainable management of natural resources in the Indian Himalayas. By...
After earning masters in public health at Johns Hopkins University(USA), Drs. Abhay and Rani Bang are launching a program...
J.M. Sampath is setting out to make psychology increasingly a part of the average Indian's skills. Since modern values...
Sudhirender Sharma, a doctoral graduate in soil science from J. Nehru University, is launching a program designed to...
A trained pediatrician by profession, Vibha Krishnamurthy is creating an integrated medical and therapeutic support...
Learning from her personal experience as a cancer patient, Vandana Gupta has built a series of coping mechanisms to help...
S. Pandian is spearheading a widespread movement in India to demand humane treatment for people subjected to police...
Dilip Banerjee is integrating disaster relief into the long-term management of local needs and resources. His approach...
Rajeev Khedkar is restoring the diversity of plant species cultivated in India by teaching farmers how to use, modify and...
S.L.N. Swamy (India 1996) has established an environmental education program that is giving rise to a population of urban...
Aman Singh is improving the livelihoods of rural Indians by reviving a tradition of community-managed forests that both...
Ashok Khosla’s Development Alternatives Group innovates sophisticated technology, creates delivery mechanisms for...
Neichute Doulo is defusing the frustration of young people in Nagaland by building a new generation of socially...
In a nation where natural disasters strike often and with devastating effects, Dr. Parag Mankeekar is helping India’s...
Debashish is developing a people's movement to preserve and restore the rich architectural heritage of India's widely...
India’s large populations of former ‘criminal tribes’ continue to remain economically, socially, and politically...
Journalist Palagummi Sainath is showing India's commercial media how to report accurately about "poor India" in a way...
Nalini is promoting healthy lifestyles and chronic disease prevention by mobilizing youth and women, starting in India...
To transform Indian schools from being perpetrators of bias and prejudice to becoming fighters for justice and equality,...
By drawing attention to sexual harassment on the streets, Jasmeen Patheja transforms attitudes towards an often-...
C.V. Madhukar is changing citizens’ roles in Indian democracy by opening the process of lawmaking to greater public...
Shanti Raghavan is transforming attitudes towards employment of the disabled by carefully assessing companies’ visions...
By facilitating a transparent, citizen-led movement to link urban development and noise regulation, Sumaira Abdulali is...
Ravi Agarwal is changing the urban waste management system in India by involving local communities and the informal...
Stanny Jebamalai is using legal aid as a starting point for establishing a grassroots human rights movement among tribal...
By financing the supply chain and mitigating risks in new ways, Hardika is creating new architecture to lend to the...
S. Anand wants to change the way India’s mainstream media portray caste, a fundamental social institution, but one whose...
Merry Barua is creating a comprehensive set of services on the Indian subcontinent that improve the quality of life for...
Priscilla is working in the rural districts surrounding Madras to help develop effective leadership in the women's...
On the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Harry Andrews is developing the first national park in India to include local people...
Raghunath K. Manvar, a mechanical technician in a Gujarat power station, is organizing a comprehensive approach to...
Mandira Kumar is building synergies among innovative Indian educators and networking them for effective sharing of the...
Rakhee Choudhury is teaching Assamese women the skills they need to revitalize weaving–a vital part of their...
In the 1970s Vasant Gangavane, a management expert from IIM and Wharton, returned to his village in Konkan, Maharashtra,...
Kedar Banerjee, one of India's only 600 psychiatrists, is developing a preventive, therapeutic, and rehabilitative...
India has suffered religious and ethnic violence for centuries.Sushobha Barve’s citizen peace committees cut away its...
Rajeev Vartak (India 1992) is launching a program to develop science teaching and self-learning aids for school children...
Anjali is creating the first centralized and publicly available accountability metrics for legislators in India. In...
Rom Whitaker is showing how India's disadvantaged tribal groups can develop environmentally sustainable livelihoods...
Santosh Choubey sees the IT and mobile revolution connecting all of India in the next ten years and wants to ensure that...
Krishna Prasad is plugging the increasing demand for organic seeds in India, by commercializing organic seeds through an...
S. Rajagopal's understanding of science and business enables him to rescue useful and profitable ideas from India's...
A botanist from India's western Himalayan foothills, Anil Joshi is identifying new uses of bio-mass waste and weeds and...
Jeroo Billimoria launched Childline, the country's first attempt at making street children's quick access to supports,...
Asim Sarode envisions a “social-legal system” changing the power equations for victims and witnesses by building legal...
Patricia Day Bidinger is providing health care and medical testing to the villagers of rural India, while launching a "...
Kavita is is fundamentally tranforming the way school audits can take place to become a powerful tool in the hands of...
By forming an inclusive coalition of supporters of local campaigns against caste injustice, Dr. Lenin helps citizen...
Ishita Chaudhry is ridding Indian society of the deeply held premise that youth should have little or no say in matters...
Sunitha Krishnan is making it possible for India's government and citizen organizations to manage jointly a range of...
Edith Elliot is tapping into an underutilised resource -- families of patients -- and equipping them to play a pivotal...
Kaustubh Pandharipand is creating trade networks and a legal framework that will enable India’s nomadic communities to...
India’s large population of nomadic tribal peoples often remain outside any form of official government classification...
To raise the visibility of the disabled in villages of India, Suresh Kushtagi is enabling disabled citizens to have a...
Srinivasan is demonstrating how to get affordable medicines to India's hundreds of millions of citizens who cannot pay...
Raja Menon is facilitating the creation of "grassroots companies," a new organizational form for poor rural producer...
Madhavi, one of India's first speech therapists, is setting out to develop simple, easily transmitted methods of...
To ensure students from low-income households have realistic access to higher education, Akshay Saxena is creating an...
Eldred Tellis develops targeted and sustained interventions for the drug user community on the streets of Mumbai. His...
Kishore Rithe, a former engineering professor with a passion for tigers, is creating a network of model organizations to...
Shantaram Umanath Shenai ("Shantu"), who is popularly known in and around India's commercial capital of Mumbai (Bombay)...
Sister Cyril is showing how middle class schools can integrate the poor living around them into their educational...
Inderjit Khurana , by chalking off a bit of railway platform, has created India's burgeoning "platform schools...
Anita Ahuja has turned discarded plastic bags into a valuable resource. She combines principles from enterprise and...
Abhay Shukla has successfully demonstrated that health care programs can be initiated as a citizen-based, low-cost and...
Kamal Kanti Banik links river conservation to the livelihoods of local nearby residents. He is restoring fish populations...
A former pediatrician, Dr. Balijepalli Sailakshmi is reducing the child mortality rate among the most poor by raising...
Dr. Rajat Mitra is changing the core of the criminal justice system in India by institutionalizing the concept of...
A leader in the women's movement in eastern India, Krishna Roy is creating a broad network of citizen "watchdogs"...
Having restored the fertility of his own land through natural farming, Vijay Uttarwar is now successfully spreading his...
M.G. Papamma is undertaking a mass mobilization of rural women in South India, creating a confederation of women's groups...
Arvind Kejriwal uses a new state law to fight corruption in India, training ordinary citizens to secure transparency and...
Nalini Nayak (India 1989) has, over the last two decades, played a central role in helping the small scale, traditional...
By creating a scalable state-level federation of self-help groups, S. Sankara Raman is equipping India’s rural disabled,...
Dinesh is creating vibrant local millet economies, by addressing significant gaps in the millet value chain.
Kabir Vajpeyi, an architect by qualification, has created a framework to creatively use space and its built elements to...
Madhavi Kukreja is taking the lowest rung in Uttar Pradesh’s feudal system—lower-caste, Dalit women—and turning them into...
Y.J. Rajendra educates and empowers slum dwellers in South India about how they can improve their living conditions, by...
Rana Sengupta works with cooperatives of stone quarry workers to create innovative systems that give them ownership of...
Leena Joshi is creating a broad-based movement, led primarily by marginalized women, to reform the Indian government's...
Kuldeep Dantewadia is enabling children to influence their environment through participatory problem-solving...
In India, where approximately 80 percent of farmers work on a small or marginal scale, traditional cropping patterns have...
Jagdish Pradhan is helping peasant farmers in arid parts of India to reclaim traditional community water management...
Milind Ranade, who quit his job at a textile mill to work in the slums of Bombay, founded an alternative labor union that...
After years of study and reflection, while earning masters in public health with great distinction at Johns Hopkins...
Beena Lashkari is exposing slum children of ages three to eighteen to formal education and helping them stay in school....
Vijay Mahajan founded BASIX, a livelihood promotion institution which supports the livelihoods of over a million poor...
Rakesh Jaiswal is bringing together diverse groups in a coordinated effort to curb further pollution of the Ganga River,...
With roots in the child labor movement, Solomon J.P. is taking a systemic, industry-based approach to poverty in India,...
With a long and successful record of working with mass based women's groups, Harini Kakkeri is addressing issues of...
Dr. Madhav Chavan has designed a low-cost, replicable way of bringing pre-primary and primary education to poor children...
Nimisha Desai, one of India's growing group of single women, is seeking to remove several of the severe disabilities they...
M. V. Mathew is organizing communities in India to address violations of human rights. By building local coalitions and...
Soma Sengupta is devising ways to meet the need for information sharing among mass based organizations and activists in...
While other players in the healthcare field in India have been focused on developing telemedicine for tertiary and...
Anu Wakhlu is helping middle-aged Indian housewives to identify the individual skills and strengths from which they can...
Rita Panicker helps India's street and working children to lobby for their rights and launch their own self-help...
Pankaj Jain is providing high-quality, low-cost education to children in slums and poor urban areas by re-engineering the...
Roma Debabrata is mobilizing urban, migrant communities to find and report cases of trafficking. By building vigilant...
Dr. Devi Shetty is a serial social entrepreneur who has enabled millions of low-income people to access quality health...
Though cotton farming as widely practiced in India today is a high-risk, low-profit, resource-intensive, and even...
Muthu Velayutham orchestrates a diverse, integrated suite of development programs in rural India that enable poor...
Kousalya Periasamy is a pioneer: the first woman in India to declare she is HIV-positive. She has brought attention to...
Recognizing the positive role women can play in reducing gun violence, Binalakshmi “Bina” Nepram is pioneering the micro-...
Bibhu Kalyan Mohanty is establishing an industry with small farmers, healers and government to create a healthy and...
Over a span of four decades Bindeshwar Pathak has advanced his vision for a safe, just, and dignified India through the...
Dr. Armida Fernandez reorients and reorganizes the limited resources of India’s public health system, crafting efficient...
Before 1997, there had been only one documented case of successful organ donation in India. Lalitha Raghuram has paved...
Shilpi Kapoor is eliminating information discrimination by empowering differently-abled people to demand accessibility by...
Deep is working to reshape the negative attitude of young people toward agriculture by integrating a learning model, that...
Yogendra is demonstrating that even among communities deprived of basic rights and resources children can and should...
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