Banaras Hindu University

Since 1994, Dr Tapan Kumar Lahiri has donated all of his salary to the needy. Today, at 70, he lives on his pension money and continues to serve the poor. Here is his story.

BHU researchers have developed a simple and accurate home test to detect fake milk, helping ensure the quality and safety of what we consume.

"When the research was published, the government made this warning mandatory. It upset a lot of baby food companies. And today, we are saving babies because of this knowledge," says Varanasi's 91-year-old Annapurna Shukla.

Their work pays tribute to Cherpulassery through a work of mural art stretched across a 7,000-sq-m wall around the town's government school.

“I can truly say that [but] for Dr. Bhatnagar you could not have seen today the chain of national laboratories”, once said Nehru about the ‘Father of India’s Research Laboratories’. He was not wrong.

Supplementing soil with dried leaves of nitrogen-rich trees such as shisham, amaltas and neem can increase the content of soil microbial biomass and grain yield of rice.

Some of these top institutes tread off the beaten path and offer branches of study that are definitely not your average fare.

Together with his visual arts students, BHU professor Suresh K. Nair started the Public Art Project in Varanasi to give a new look to the city. Here is the result.