Food and Water
The colour of the skin

Don’t rinse away the skin of your dals. Not only do they add texture and health to your food but also help small farmers

Food and Water
Sowing the seeds of conservation

Around 100 seed conservationists and groups from various parts of India will participate in the Seed festival at Chennai, which is in its fourth edition.

Economics and Technologies
A Gandhian in Nagaland

The story of an extraordinary woman from an Ao Naga village who embraced Gandhian thought in the charged 1950s

Environment and Ecology
How a Spring Revival Scheme in India’s Sikkim Is Defeating Droughts

51 springs and four lakes in 20 drought-prone Gram Panchayats of Sikkim have been revived so far

Environment and Ecology
An organic farm that nurtures life and spirit

This story of transformation of a barren landscape into a bustling organic farm offers hope to the despondent and inspiration to the struggler

Food and Water
How Bidar beat back the drought

As Karnataka reels under drought, an academic is helping restore indigenous systems that were Bidar’s water lifeline 600 years ago.

Learning and Education
Of the students, by the students, for the students

Their clarity of thought, sensitivity towards others and the ability to look inwards were rare and presented a hope for a positively different society

Environment and Ecology
Saving the sholas: To overcome drought, Nilgiris’ forest communities return to traditional wisdom

The drought has provided the trigger for people to think and act to conserve the shola-grassland ecosystem, and some of the water sources.

Society, Culture and Peace
A Family Wedding as a creative project

It was a reminder of times spent together in fruitful leisurely production, re-visioning a shared living space, a fundamental experience of community