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Remembering Dhrubajyoti Ghosh…

... a storehouse of ecological thinking and an ethical anchor that is rarely found in South Asia’s environmental landscape.

A farm where native wisdom is fully at work

His “unscientific’ innovations have impressed veterinarians so much that they have come to recommend them for others.

Bridging urban-rural divide

Cooperative initiatives that involve urban and rural people to solve problems of villages as well as cities, help to bridge the rural-urban divide

Floating gardens for the landless

Bamboo beds with layers of dried water hyacinth, silt, vermicompost and farm yard manure, dry leaves of leguminous plants, etc. float on the water bodies.

Dhrubajyoti Ghosh: The Intrepid Ecologist and his ‘laboratory of survival’

“We count the number of millionaires, but not the millions of pickers who are active in our nation’s backyards.”

An Incredible Story of a Family That Made a Forest, an Eco-Village and Lives Medicine-Free

Going back to nature also means giving up the illogical ways of modern medicine, for Dr Pravin Chordia.

A turn for the better at Gandipet village

The Gandipet village is a striking picture of cleanliness. Across the length and breadth of a few streets, we spotted just one carton on the street.

Sanitarily yours…

At a school in Kanchipuram, teachers and students harvest manure from dry composting toilets, thus paying possibly the best tribute to Gandhi

Once homeless, Mumbai heroes revolutionise shoe industry

Two young men launch a company that wants to ensure that no Indian walks barefoot