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Settlements and Transport
Rolling back the architect
"Each village community is different, so with each village the approach had to change."
Environment and Ecology
When wasteland bears fruits
A neighbourhood forest, explains Anasuyamma, spreads across 12-16 hectares (ha) and usually grows timber, fruits and medicinal plants.
Food and Water
Idlis get a unique makeover at Visakhapatnam’s latest food startup
His venture called Vasena Poli has turned into a go-to place for many fitness freaks, medical practitioners and young college goers.
Environment and Ecology
Sustaining a river through young minds
A dying river is sought to be conserved by ensuring a steady stream of young, local foot soldiers involved in her protection.
Economics and Technologies
Dump the AC, Use These 3 Green Cooling Solutions While Building Your Home!
"Everything we build from now onwards has to be eco-sensitive, energy efficient, cost efficient, people-centred and value-based."
Environment and Ecology
Kutch’s Wagad or Kala cotton: Back from the (almost) dead
Desi cotton could replace a majority of the area that is currently under American cotton, in light of climate change-related weather vagaries...
Food and Water
This Chemistry Professor’s Fight for Arsenic-free Water in Villages of Assam is Slowly Bearing Fruit
More and more schools adopt this technology, train teachers and ask students to build Arsiron Nilogon as science projects
Economics and Technologies
Rearing goats empower women in rural Bihar
The women said that income from goats was theirs and they decided its usage.