Sahaja Samrudha’s campaign to save agro-biodiversity empowers 10,000 Karnataka farmers

Sahaja Samrudha is a people’s movement to safeguard traditional crop varieties, build sustainable villages and [...]

Rajasthan’s Khejadli: The inspiration behind the Chipko Movement

363 members of the Bishnoi community sacrificed their lives to protect Khejdi trees almost three [...]

Chhapa: How this Gujarat family contemporized hand block printing to revive the dying art

By giving a youthful appeal to its designs, Chhapa is tapping a younger audience and [...]

Jammu: From cleaning rivers to making cow dung logs for crematoriums, how Disha is greening the City of Temples

The NGO, run by working professionals, is creating awareness around civic issues, motivating citizens to [...]

Roja Reddy: Karnataka techie-turned-agripreneur’s pioneering organic farming effort makes her a millionaire

Despite facing ridicule and challenges, Roja Reddy has grown her organic farming business to Rs1 [...]

India’s Mona Lisa: Bani Thani, the high point of Kishangarh School of Art

How the love story of king Sawant Singh and his consort Bani Thani gave a [...]

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Sangita Sawalakhe: The woman whose biopesticides turned saviour for thousands of debt-ridden farmers

Her firm Vidarbha Biotech Lab in Yavatmal makes 16 products used in organic farming. Biopesticides [...]

Rajasthan: Titanwala family struggles to keep alive Bagru’s hand block printing

Titanwalas have been Chhippas (printers) for the past eight generations & continue to use only [...]

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Janessaline Pyngrope: The woman who took Meghalaya’s Ryndia-Eri silk to the global stage

The ethnic fashion house is empowering women who hand-spin and weave Eri silk. [...]

Telangana techie-turned-farmer earns millions from organic farming

Mavuram Mallikarjun Reddy has also empowered 150 farmers by setting up an FPO [...]