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Why bees are disappearing
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I’m not a big fan of bees. I’ve been stung a few times and having a beehive in my garden […]
A Tribute to Mandela
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On 5th December 2013, the world mourned the passing away of one of the most iconic leaders in recent times. […]
Light in a Bottle
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Everyone loves innovative ideas. And simpler, the better. I came across an advertizement on the Internet which I thought was […]
Birds of Paradise
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This is a trailer from a documentary being made by the Cornell University, and is itself part of a larger […]
Farming the Gandhian Way
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Not many of us would have heard of Bhaskar Save but the world certainly has, even to the extent of […]
Collecting Lost Heritage
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“Can you say among a hundred people who is the most important? Everyone has his own importance. So, I find, […]
Sulabh – A Revolution like No Other
0In 1967, 25 year old Bindeshwar Pathak had missed getting a First Class that would have landed him a lecturer’s […]
No Piggy Bank for these Children
0An effort pioneered in India to organise a formal bank for street children and run by children themselves is now […]
A Task for Everyone
0It is common for Indian businessmen to complain of the slowness of procedures in India. Equally, most citizens complain of […]
A Clothes-line from Cities to the Country
0Drought in some parts of the country, notably Rajasthan and Gujarat, made big news in the months preceding the monsoon. […]
Water Harvesting – The Silent Crusaders
0Drought in some parts of the country, notably Rajasthan and Gujarat, made big news in the months preceding the monsoon. […]
The Busy, Busy Bus
0“Doorstep” is the story of how a small individual initiative has blossomed into a mini movement. Begun in Mumbai in […]
Staring Down Droughts
0In just seven years, with a modest one-time investment, BAIF, Dharwad (Karnataka) has lifted 10,000 people to good lives. It […]
A Learning Place as Home
1Every evening between 4 and 8 o’clock, Kamalam, Kannan and their little son surrender their house to 150 children who […]
Because, He Saw Them Standing There…
1Anuradha Goburdhun Bakhshi says she is paying back a debt to India. But that is strange accounting. She hardly owes […]
Bridging the Gap
0Frequently, when we despair of where India is at the moment we do one of these three things: first we […]
A Hero Lives On
0For decades donors like the World Bank and the Governments of Japan and Germany had waited with millions of dollars […]
Of a Time More Scientific than Ours
0On the tourist map Ghadisar is as big as the town of Jaisalmer. And the two are inter-existent, just as […]
Conservation as Religion
0Try to name a widely practiced faith or religion that is built on the holism of nature. Not a religion […]
Old is New
0You may have seen them on stage or the telly. Five or six unmistakably Indian men in colourful oversized turbans. […]
The Importance of Rangaswamy Elango
0In a nation where collective finger pointing at politicians, grieving at the slowness of democracy and deriding India itself are […]
Young Lions
0When finally Damodar ‘Damu’ Acharya rebelled in 1980 and set out to organise oppressed fellow workers, little did he know […]
The Redoubtable Babus of Mumbai
0Here’s an example of how the meek might inherit India. Here too, is an insight into what really makes India […]
Uncommon Battle
0For half a millennium now, the people of Muli, a nondescript town in Gujarat’s Surendranagar district, have revered the partridge […]
A Pilgrimage with a Difference
0Great men undertake works of gigantic proportions, accomplished by the call of their inner voice. Their pure consciousness makes them […]
The Organic Way to Fame
0This man has a green thumb – P. Selvaraj’s 10-acre farm has become a Mecca for agricultural scientists and researchers. […]
Parivartan
0For a democracy to amount to more than a mere ceremony of elections, it must have dynamic media, courts and […]
A Seed sent from Heaven
0It is dark at noon. A thick, wet leaf pile squelches underfoot. Often your way is blocked and you must […]
Parenting Trees
0To be in Karnataka’s countryside is to be among a gentle people in a cared for land. Unhurried gaits, unfailing […]
