Gurugram, Jan. 9 -- When she moved to Gurugram from South Delhi 21 years ago, a 57-year-old resident of Wellington Estate in DLF 5 believed the city would grow into its promised "Millennium City" vision. Instead, she says she witnessed "a quagmire of neglect, mismanagement and apathy", evident in waste, dust, and disordered citizen-environment relationships.

A fashion designer with over 35 years' experience, Anuradha Dhawan states her personal and professional journeys intersected a decade ago when fashion waste began troubling her deeply. This prompted a shift from merely creating clothes to critiquing the systems behind them. Her label, Anu PD, transitioned toward what she calls "honest sustainability in fashion," rooted in daily pract...