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Shepherd from Karnataka builds 14 ponds on barren hill, turns his village green
"Wherever I take up 5-6 ft of digging, there will be water which will not dry up … even during summers.”
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पक्षियों का गांव है मेनार (IN HINDI)
तरबूज-खरबूज की खेती छोड़ी पक्षियों के लिए !
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3D Modelling for Participatory Water Management
Participants started discussing amongst themselves landscape features in their villages and demarcated forest, roads, wells, etc.
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Kashmiri Pandit, Muslim Artists Come Together to Promote Harmony Through Their Work
Unique exhibition aimed at promoting the ideas of harmony and togetherness through the medium of art
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Two conservation communities from northeast India win biodiversity awards
The realisation that the community-controlled forest was home to many endemic species helped ... provide protection to all species here.
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Tosa Maidan Liberation & Conservation Struggle: A successful struggle of Non-violent & Democratic means in Kashmir
Following year-long demonstrations by the local villagers, the Government of J&K made a decision. TosaMaidan was handed over to its people.
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A league of extraordinary women
“The cases we resolve act as moral support to other victims of violence. "
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Is this Artisans’ ‘Transformation’?
Artisans of Kachchh have entrepreneurial skills, too, which retailers like Amazon need to recognize
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More Questions Than Answers: Is There Indeed an Alternate Development Paradigm?
Answers need to be pursued to transition from a peripheral intellectual wishful debate to mainstream positive action on the ground.