Circumstances were never in favour of P C Mustafa. Son of a daily wager, who grew up in a remote village in Kerala which had no electricity or proper roads, he defied all the odds to build a Rs 294 crore turnover company, says Usha Prasad

Things that usually end up in landfills are being turned out into beautiful works of art and utility products by a growing band of artists and entrepreneurs in the country who swear by the mantra “don’t waste the waste,” says Surekha Kadapa-Bose