Good News This Week: From a Pune Terrace 4°C Cooler to a Delhi Teen Feeding 42 Families, Meet India's Coolest Gardeners

There is a particular kind of person who looks at a bare concrete terrace and sees a forest. Not a metaphorical one — an actual forest, the kind that drops the temperature of a house, feeds a family, draws bees and birds, and ends up cooling something far less measurable than air. India, it turns out, has many such people. They are not landscape architects or climate scientists. They are homemakers, retired engineers, schoolkids on summer break, women who have spent decades silently tending to pots no one notices. And in a country that is increasingly arguing about heatwaves and electricity...