Water Supply to Slums or Critique Policies: 10 Ways to Up Your Civic...
A country’s biggest strength is its youth and socially active citizens. We are talking about people like you, who are keen to get involved and who provide constructive inputs and support to their...
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Assam Couple Uses Indigenous ‘Ahimsa’ Silk To Make it Big in France & Japan
Every day for the past four years, Mandakini Gogoi and her husband, Rituraj Dewan, have been travelling from their home in Guwahati, Assam, to the forests of the Loharghat range. It is largely a mix of...
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Celebrating The Retired Teacher Who At 80 Worked To Revive Panna Tiger Reserve
Ambika Khare, born in Panna on 26 December 1932, passed away at the age of 88 on the night of 16 April 2021 of heart failure. A man ahead of his time, a great supporter of Panna Tiger Reserve, winner...
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How to Grow Mango Trees at Home in Just 6 Easy Steps
As a child, I fancied having a huge garden to myself and despite several attempts, I faced tough luck in growing mango plants at home. After extracting the juicy pulp, for years we have been discarding...
View ArticleThis Environment Day, Know What India’s Single-Use Plastic Ban Means For You
India is looking to phase out its single-use plastics by 2025. But how will we manage to overcome this Herculean feat when the country consumes over 3.3 million metric tonnes of plastic a year? On 11...
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TN Couple Share How to ‘Do-Nothing’ on a Farm, While Still Earning Rs...
It was a March afternoon when a young couple in a village of Tamil Nadu was busy caressing plants at its farm. The word which comes to mind after seeing their farm is ‘jungle’. When we met the couple,...
View ArticleUnsung Teenage Heroine Who Helped Netaji Escape, Fought For 10,000 Tribal...
A little over a century ago, in the Himalayan town of Kurseong, an hour’s drive from Darjeeling, West Bengal, lived a woman who was an integral part of Mahatma Gandhi’s Non-cooperation Movement. She...
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Odisha Woman Crosses Streams, Treks Hills Daily To Bring Medicine to Remote...
“Four walls can’t stop women from being astounding and many of them have already made their mark against the grain,” says Pravasini Batakar, a 33-year-old from Odisha’s Kandhamal district. In a rare...
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Easy Steps to Grow Brinjal, Potaoes & Other Veggies in Recycled Boxes at Home
There’s a lot that can be grown on a terrace, in a backyard or a balcony, if we utilise the space well. As the monsoon is slowly setting in, it’s a great time to start growing some vegetables at home....
View ArticleIndia’s New Agriculture Policy: Here’s Why You Need to Share Your Ideas With...
India’s agriculture sector accounts for about 15.9 per cent of the country’s $ 2.7 trillion economy and 49 per cent of employment (2018-19). Given the heavy statistics, the government aims to simplify,...
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This Change Can Help 17000 Architecture Grads Transform India’s Homes
What does it take to construct a building? Designing dynamic spaces like these requires individuals who work with their hearts, heads and hands while listening with love to the earth, the climate and...
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I Play the Veena For Cancer Patients Because I Saw What It Did For My Grandma
Have we heard anyone say — “I received chemotherapy” — when all they have done is swallow a 500 mg Paracetamol? Similarly, I have observed frivolous connotations of ‘music therapy’ in plenty of...
View Article15 Life Lessons I Learnt While Caring for a Chronically Ill Patient — My Father
It is difficult to comprehend that the same lively man once brimming with energy—who could walk 5-10 km every day, take a bath in cold water, even in the harshest weather and had almost never taken any...
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Electric vs Petrol Vehicle: How The Purchase Will Affect Your Pocket in 10 Years
Petrol and diesel prices have increased the number of digits and could soon hurt pockets. As this article is being written, it is pretty evident that there is much talk about how every stock market...
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The Indians Who Pulled Off the ‘Greatest Daylight Robbery’ That Shook the...
On 21 July 1916, the Marwari community of Barabazar was surprised to see a small group of police conducting raids at the house of the Birla family. It was unthinkable because the Marwaris were loyal to...
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Why My Husband & I Paused Our Careers to Live a Nomadic Life with Our Son for...
As the second wave of the pandemic receded, casual get-togethers over the weekend became a norm at the Verma household. Drinks would flow, everyone was well dressed, the conversations were eclectic,...
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What My 6-YO Daughter & I Learnt on Our 42 Day Road Trip From Gujarat to...
Travelling and meeting people from different cultural spaces, developing relationships and remaining close to the five elements is our tool for unlearning and keeping Navyaa, our 6-year-old daughter,...
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How Documents Helped Odisha Village Become Child Marriages Free in 5 Years
Set in the lap of nature, Thianal village in Odisha’s Deogarh district offers a picturesque view with hills and a perennial river ‘Hinjuli’ flowing on one side. Located approximately 60 km from the...
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I Cycled Solo Across All Indian States For 6 Months; What I Learnt & Taught...
This article has been sponsored by Wingify Earth Chanchal “Chan” Kunwar Singh has ridden 20, 397 km across India on a bicycle for a powerful cause — to generate public awareness on climate change and...
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Engineer’s Solar Solution Gets Clean Water in Gujarat Village, Saves 5.14 Mn...
This article has been sponsored by Wingify Earth. As India falls in the ranks of the world’s fastest-growing economies, its dependency on non-renewable energy sources like coal, oil, gas, etc, is...
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