Be The Change

Finding the Stories That Matter

I never knew a sector like this existed. Growing up in Bombay, surrounded by friends headed into business and corporate jobs, I studied commerce, then law, and was on track to become a financial lawyer. But during an internship, I worked on a case that stopped me cold: pesticide poisoning in Yavatmal in eastern Maharashtra. […]

Kerala’s Fisher Communities are Defending the Ocean from Climate and Corporates

On the southwest coast of India, long before policymakers began speaking of “nature-based solutions” or “ocean literacy”, fishers in Kerala already knew where life thrived beneath the waves. They called these underwater ecosystems “paru” – reefs, rocky outcrops and seabed formations where fish aggregate, breed and take shelter. For generations, this knowledge guided when to […]

Is This the World’s Unlikeliest Protein Source?

In India and around the world, methane is leaking into the atmosphere from rice paddies, cattle farms and decomposing waste, accelerating global warming. While carbon dioxide is the most talked-about greenhouse gas, methane is significantly more potent. To understand why, imagine greenhouse gases as blankets covering the Earth. Carbon dioxide adds many thin blankets, while […]