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Food and Water
Tamil Nadu Revives Ancient Community De-Silting Of Lakes, Tanks
'Kudimaramathu' is a practice where farmers have to remove weeds and deepen the lake to ensure proper supply of water for irrigation.
Environment and Ecology
Making Ameenpur garbage free Panchayat
The Ameenpur Lake, a serene water body in Patancheru mandal has been declared Telangana’s first biodiversity heritage site
Environment and Ecology
Sleeping with danger
The residents were calm. Instead of clobbering the king cobra to death, the family left the bathroom door ajar so it could find its way out on its own.
Health and Hygiene
Grandmother of the jungle: This Kerala tribal woman can prepare 500 medicines from memory
Hundreds trek to the forests in Thiruvananthapuram district to get treated by Lakshmikutty who offers herbal treatment for poisoning
Food and Water
Indian village beats drought, one raindrop at a time
Ralegan Siddhi has remained water-sufficient for four decades, even in the severe droughts of 2014 and 2015 that triggered thousands of farmer suicides in Maharashtra
Food and Water
Schooling for Curiosity
To remain inclusive, the school allows families to pay whatever fee they can afford and finds sponsors to pitch in with the rest
Food and Water
‘We have more hardy, nutritious grains than GM can offer’
Debal Deb has conserved 1,200 climate resilient rice varieties. He speaks on the need to conserve traditional seeds and why we don’t need genetically modified ones.
Health and Hygiene
Same-sex attraction is OK, boys can cry, girl’s no means no
The resource kit for educators of adolescents treats the issue of same-sex attraction with unusual maturity and talks about contraception...
Environment and Ecology
शाल के तले – असम का अद्वितीय वन-संरक्षक नाट्योत्सव (in Hindi)
शाल कुंजो का संरक्षण समुदाय की रीतियों से सम्बद्ध है। शाल के यह जंगल हमें पूज्य हैं। मरणोपरान्त, लोगों को इन्हीं वृक्षों के नीचे दफन किया जाता है।