Made in Chandrapur slum, sold in Switzerland: How this woman from Maharashtra handcrafted a successful home business with bamboo 

When Minakshi Walke lost her baby following a miscarriage during the seventh month of her [...]

Neerja Palisetty’s Sutrakaar: Weaving paper yarn to make ecofriendly handicrafts

A small group of homemakers work with thin strips of discarded paper on a sunny [...]

How this Punjab farmer makes a profit of Rs 5 lakh per acre from strawberry farming

Jaskaran Singh grew up playing in the fields of paddy and cotton in the Kauni [...]

Seed conservation: This Madhya Pradesh farmer grows 115 native varieties of rice over just 2 acres; gives seeds free to other farmers 

When Rajkumar Choudhry was studying in class 11, he would go to school on his [...]

Kalpana Ramesh: The architect leading restoration of Telangana’s historic stepwells

When Kalpana Ramesh returned to India from the US in 2000, she had to set [...]

How Bangalore’s Earthen Browns is bringing grandma’s clay cooking pots back into Indian kitchens

Over four decades back, in the Pookala household in the picturesque Dharmathadka village, about 50km [...]

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Lajwanti Chabra: The woman who took Punjab’s folk embroidery Phulkari to the nooks & corners of India 

In the legendary romance Heer Ranjha, written by Waris Shah in 1766, the Sufi poet describes [...]

From building pitch decks to facilitating investor calls, how Marquee Equity helps startups raise money at extremely low costs

In 2012, when Ash Narain needed to raise capital for his startup BankerBay Technologies, a [...]

Married at 16, how this Arunachal woman fought poverty to become bamboo millionaire

By the time Techi Anna had turned 21, she was already the mother of three [...]

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From 4 acres to 18 acres: How profitable organic fruit farming helped Rajasthan’s Rajnish Lambha expand rapidly

In 2002, when Rajnish Lambha joined his grandfather’s four-acre farm at Chelasi village of Jhunjhunu [...]