Build local: This architect creates sustainable & sturdy homes without using cement or steel

In a country obsessed with cement and steel for building construction, a Mumbai-based architect has [...]

Punjab: MBA farmer turns millionaire with profit of Rs6 lakh per acre from guava farming

When Rajeev Bhaskar passed out of the G B Pant University of Agriculture in Uttarakhand [...]

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How Exotic Echo is reviving Nagaland’s centuries-old loin loom weaving

In December 2006, Neil and his father went to attend the Hornbill Festival held in [...]

Couple quits Singapore jobs to set up successful artisanal jams business in the Himalayas

In 2005, when Kartik Budhraja and Anuradha Kanwar Budhraja went for a holiday to Thanadhar, [...]

How Tamil Nadu’s aeronautical engineer-turned-farmer is creating native seed bank to promote organic farming

In the coastal areas of South India, toddy or sap from palm trees is collected [...]

Kutch: Mangrove loss threatens Kharai swimming camel; hurts livelihood of pastoralists

Bhikabhai Rabari is the fifth generation camel breeder in his semi-nomadic family. Living in the [...]

Latticework: How the Persian stone craft moved from Taj Mahal to living rooms for survival

When Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan decided to build the Taj Mahal in the memory of [...]

How P-TAL is reviving the thathera craft of handmade brass & copper utensils

Mandeep Kumar’s family has been living in the Jandiala Guru village of Punjab’s Amritsar district [...]

From 9-to-5 job to making artisanal cheese, how Nitin Dayalu built Old Hill Foods in the Himalayas

Nitin Dayalu remembers carrying an icebox in a gym bag as he would drive down [...]

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Toda embroidery: Preserving tribal craft from the Nilgiris stitch by stitch

Every fortnight, 90-year-old Pongeri pattima comes down from her village in the Nilgiri hills to the Upper [...]