India, May 29 -- Dr Savita Nagpal, 66, is quietly leading a sustainability movement in Gurugram by encouraging residents to adopt decluttered homes and a minimalistic lifestyle.

Through her nine-year-old initiative, Slim Homes, she has been promoting mindful consumption and environmental responsibility in a rapidly urbanising city increasingly marked by excess.

Nagpal has been running a privately owned diagnostic laboratory in South Delhi for 25 years. After retirement, she shifted her focus towards environmental causes due to concerns over poor sanitation, rising pollution levels, and environmental degradation.

One of her earliest initiatives promoting the 3 Rs- reuse, recycle and reduce- to cut down use of single-use plastics and enc...