Divyanshi Pandey does not believe in ghosts. But whenever the 13-year-old visits her neighbourhood cyber cafe, she can feel the soul of her old c
omputers linger. The sleek black machines there may look nothing like her heavy, discoloured, convex desktops-but deep inside two of them rest the organs of her benevolent, dead computers.

Six months ago, the Lucknow-based schoolgirl obliged the cybercafe owner with the two PCs. It wasn’t a bout of charity or selflessness-in Divyanshi’s peer group, the generosity is called ‘freecycling’. The term, very often confused with ‘recycling’ in India, refers to one of the biggest global environmental initiatives to “change the world, one gift at a time”.

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