Regardless of what you imagine today, your imagination is fuelled through a television set, laptop, tablet, or mobile screen. Four years ago, Mumbai-based entrepreneur Nikita Shah decided that her seven-year-old twin boys needed a world beyond that. The first step was to get them outdoors — even if living in Mumbai meant that one had a better chance of finding greens in a plate of overpriced salad than by the roadside. So, along with Labdhi Mehta, she founded Beyond Academics, a company that organises unique workshops for children, and soon expanded the agenda to combine these into a two-day nature festival.

Nikita Shah and Labdhi Mehta