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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Pedana Kalamkari: How Pitchuka Srinivasa has taken Andhra’s 15th century craft to New York’s high street

Fabrics boil with pomegranate peels in copper cauldrons at a home-cum-workshop in Pedana, a small [...]

Andhra farmer gets triple the market rates for mango & paddy with zero-cost natural farming

When Jagdeesh Reddy joined his family farm in Mogili Village of Andhra Pradesh’s Chittoor district [...]

Farohar: How a mother-son duo is popularising Parsi cuisine through authentic recipes

A sleepy coastal town in Gujarat, about 180km from Mumbai, is home to one of [...]

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Himalayan Weavers: Hand-woven woollens by tribes in the Himalayas find a global market

Sometime in the early 2000s, when Ghayur Alam was researching biodiversity conservation in Uttarakhand, he [...]

How Bangalore’s retail chain Humus is taking fresh fruits & veggies from farms to urban homes

Wooden push-carts with fruits and vegetables are neatly lined up as customers fill their shopping [...]

More young women jobless in India than in Bangladesh & China; 25% unemployed

India is facing an unprecedented unemployment crisis and young women are the worst affected by [...]

Meet Shashank Moddhia: the man disrupting kidney dialysis industry with his low-cost micro-centres model

At the peak of Coronavirus pandemic in June 2020, four kidney dialysis centres in north [...]

Gyanada: where children from Mumbai’s slums code, compute and create apps

When Ajay Kumar was appearing for his class 9 examinations in March 2019 in Mumbai, [...]

Aranmula Kannadi: How tech-savvy GenNext is preserving Kerala’s 500-year-old metal mirror craft

The afternoon sun is blazing as Niranjan K B is preparing an alloy of tin [...]