The pursuit of balance – the story of slackliner Samar Farooqui

Johnson Jacob has held the honour of being Mumbai’s only beekeeper for several years. His earliest bee related memory is from when he, as a five-year-old, would accompany his father on honey extracting expeditions. He didn’t understand he wanted to be a beekeeper until many years later, and when he expressed this to his father he was advised against it, “he discouraged me, saying Mumbai is a very big city and it's not possible to practice beekeeping here”, Jacob recalled.

In the course of their evolution, spiders developed various tricks in order to hide from predators, but this ecologist is determined to find them all.

With the likes of Tanvi Jagdish, Sekar Patchai making India proud in international surfing competitions. Surfing is on the rise in the country.

In Maharashtra's Kolhapur, the production of the famed Kolhapuri Chappal too has suffered under the cow slaughter ban and increased cow vigilantism. Although the chappals are usually made of buffalo or bull hide, the ban led to the shutting down of all tanneries in the city.

Aseem Chandaver traces his love for Indian ‘B’ films to when he was 11 years old. A TV show hosted by Sajid Khan was his starting point into the world of camp, and he says that no film was uninteresting after he had been initiated.