Aquatic weed water hyacinth gives rise to ecofriendly handicrafts industry in the North-East

At Bozaltoli village in Assam’s Tinsukia district, Smriti Rekha Chetia and her husband remove water [...]

From hunters to forest guides, how tourism & education are transforming the semi-nomadic Pardhis of Panna

After decades of hunting down tigers, leopards, francolin, peacocks and other wildlife, members of the [...]

How Nomadic Woollen Mills is taking ‘Made in Ladakh’ Pashmina to the world

About 30 years back, a young boy in Teri village of the Changthang region in [...]

Bobbili Veena: Andhra’s artisans overcome challenges to keep 17th-century musical legacy alive

Eswara Rao Divili uses chisels and files to carve a log of jackfruit wood into [...]

Molela: Rajasthan’s terracotta plaque art patronised by Bhil, Mina & Garasiya tribal communities

Molela village on the banks of river Banas, in Rajasthan’s Rajsamand district, is home to [...]

Marathwada: Farmer in drought-prone Beed gets 60 tonnes papaya per acre through organic farming

In Maharashtra’s Beed district, notorious for the highest number of farmer suicides in India as [...]

Gulab Singh Johrimal: How Delhi’s 205-year-old perfumery patronised by the Mughals has innovated to attract younger generation

About 750m from poet Mirza Ghalib’s haveli in Ballimaran, Chandni Chowk, is an ittar or [...]

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Bijit Basumatary: Paddy farmer’s son whose organic teas from Assam have found market overseas

In the picturesque backdrop of lush green Chakrashila Hills in Assam’s Kokrajhar district is a [...]

‘Charity kills dignity and without dignity, you can’t talk about development’: Goonj Founder Anshu Gupta

In Delhi’s freezing winter in 1991, Anshu Gupta saw a rickshaw puller wrapping unclaimed dead [...]

Nanga Hittu: Reviving tribal cuisine of the Badagas from Nilgiris

Growing up in a small village in Udhagamandalam (Ooty), Tamil Nadu, Sabbarish Gowder vividly remembers [...]

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