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 bills and what summer is going to feel like in a city built mostly of glass and grey, they have been doing the most unglamorous, persistent thing imaginable — growing their way out of it.

Here are four of them.

70-YO Pune Man Builds No-Soil Terrace Garden That Keeps His Home........

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