Pradip Shah's Grow Trees is notably increasing India's forest cover

At the organisation, projects are tailored around real-life environmental problems

Leafy lanes in Mumbai are getting increasingly hard to spot, almost as rare as the leisure time that the city affords its working class. But trees still dominate the bylanes of Colaba, where the office of Grow Trees is located. This is a not-for-profit set up by Pradip Shah, founder-managing director of Crisil, the country’s first ratings agency and founder-CEO of IndAsia Fund.

Shah says that the idea of planting trees as a way of life, not merely revelling in their grandeur or looking at them as an inheritance, came to him on a trip to Israel. He was being