Rasika Phatak: Maharashtra’s 23-year-old millionaire farmer & agriculture consultant

Sometime in 2016, Rasika Phatak’s father mortgaged 32 guntha (0.8 acre) land in Maharashtra’s Koladhare village, Sudhagad-Pali [...]

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How Dolphin IBA’s donkey milk beauty products from Kerala reached 40 countries

Father of medicine Hippocrates is said to have prescribed it for the treatment of liver [...]

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GreenKraft: taking banana bark baskets made in Madurai to Sweden’s IKEA & beyond

Veeralakshmi’s deft hands are busy weaving while she hums a song at a production unit [...]

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Housing turns into buyer’s market; sales recover after COVID as discounts bring down prices by 15%

With housing prices in India declining by up to 15 percent and home loan interest [...]

Rajasthan’s Camel Charisma builds a superfood business with camel milk and cheese

In April this year, camel milk made it to the headlines after an Indian Railways [...]

COVID-19: India’s handicrafts exports nosedive 40%; artisans turn daily wagers to make ends meet

India’s handicrafts exports have declined by 40 percent during April-August 2020 as the Coronavirus pandemic [...]

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Maharashtra’s Chitrakathi painting: keeping alive the legacy of Chhatrapati Shivaji’s spies

Nestled in the pristine Sahyadri Hills of Maharashtra, Pinguli village in Sindhudurg district is home [...]

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How 2 sisters are reviving cuisine of Bannuwal Hindus who migrated from Pakistan after Partition

When 11-year-old Kailash wanted to have chicken curry, one of his favourite dishes, his mother [...]

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Last Forest takes honey & beeswax products from Nilgiri forests to global markets

Maniswamy was on a strict vegetarian diet for 12 days in May this year. He [...]

Kavishala: A personal blog that’s now a global publishing platform for poets and writers

Akib Javed is a teacher from the little-known town of Bisanda Buzurg in Uttar Pradesh’s [...]