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Environment and Ecology
Kole Birders: Learning habitat conservation from the birds
Conservation understanding will naturally come with the understanding about birds.
Re-reading Tagore to Become Human
"... we are all willing to pay a premium to experience natural surroundings which offer nutriment to the soul"
Energy
E-rickshaws in Jaipur: Freedom on three wheels
Housewives and young girls from slums in Jaipur are finding their freedom on three wheels
Environment and Ecology
Sikkim’s Khangchendzonga Biosphere Reserve braids nature with culture as tourism expands
" Biocultural knowledge is the secret of how communities have responded and adapted to climate change and globalisation"
Food and Water
These consumers are funding farmers to make food sustainable
(Many consumers give) direct monetary support to farmers who have been practising traditional millet-based biodiverse agriculture for decades.
Settlements and Transport
Open a door: No room for discrimination and communal profiling in West Bengal
(They) intervene in cases where people complain of discrimination and mobilize the locals to eliminate discrimination.
Food and Water
Café Paaka, Hyderabad: ‘Organic, artisanal, slow’
To promote underground independent arts, to provide a platform for such artists and to expose the crowd to a variety of alternative genres
Food and Water
Festival of Uncultivated Food: Weeding out the myths
Edible plants and crops which we ignoramuses tend to dismiss as weeds, are plants that grow without their seeds being sown and alongside other crops.