Food and Water
Rooftop rainwater harvesting at Chhattisgarh school reduces absenteeism

The villagers now have access to clean and safe drinking water, and are also not dealing as much with scarcity.

Food and Water
Why Meghalaya’s Slow Food Festival is something everyone needs

'Slow Food' is the entire process from cultivating organic food, in complete harmony with nature, to various traditional processes of preserving it, to finally giving the ingredients time to cook to perfection

Food and Water
SGPC to produce organic seeds for distribution among farmers

The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee has declared its intention of producing and distributing organic seed of different types of food grains, vegetables and pulses

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The Vikalp Sangam

Participants of the Vikalp Sangam at Vardha, Maharashtra, resolved to further promote practices and concepts that help achieve human well-being based on ecological sustainability and socio-economic equity and justice

Society, Culture and Peace
Maharashtra Vikalp Sangam Concludes with Resolve to Promote Development Alternatives

... to promote practices and concepts that help achieve human well-being based on ecological sustainability and socio-economic equity and justice.

Health and Hygiene
What it takes to Clean India

The cost per unit (consisting of a bathroom and toilet), with recycled water supply, in a rural area is Rs 50,000.

Society, Culture and Peace
सध्याच्या विकासाच्या पर्यायांचा पाठपुरावा करण्याचा निर्धार करून ‘महाराष्ट्र विकल्प संगम’ची सांगता (in Marathi)

कोणीही आपल्या मूलभूत गरजांपासून वंचित होणार नाही, व आपण सगळ्यांसाठी समता व न्याय मिळविण्याच्या दृष्टीने प्रयत्नशील असू.

Livelihoods
In the lion’s den: The Indian women who answer cat calls

For women forest guards working in India's Gir sanctuary, the only home to Asiatic lions, protecting and rescuing big cats is all in a day's work.

Society, Culture and Peace
Celebrating Ravan

As the rest of the country burns effigies of Ravan, the writer visits a Gond village in Maharashtra where the ten-headed king is worshipped as god.