Meet The Earthshot Prize Finalist Making a Vegan Leather Out of Flower

In 2015, Ankit Agarwal was sitting with a friend by the banks of the river Ganges watching people taking a dip during the festival of Makara Sankranti. It sounds like an idyllic scene, but what struck the two young men most was just how dirty the water was in this sacred but very polluted spot. “My friend started counting, he counted there were 147 people including women and small children taking a dip in the river Ganges. And at that point in time the water was so dirty that we didn’t even want to touch it,” Ankit, now 32, recalls… Read Full Article