Gujarat: Dentist-turned-farmer reaps rich harvest with organic farming of dates

Ramesh Pipalia remembers his father waking up at dawn to water the fields, till the [...]

Born 700 years back, how Gujarat’s Tangaliya weaving turned trendy

Sometime in the 14th century, a young man from Gujarat’s Bharwad (shepherd) community fell in [...]

Environment: Gujarat couple quits US jobs to build own food forest; creates orchards & gardens for others

A chance visit to a farm near Los Angeles in the USA and seeing the [...]

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Gujarat: How this lawyer-turned-organic farmer made her family’s dairy business profitable

Vikram Pandya, an IIM-Ahmedabad alumnus, decided to foray into the dairy business because of his [...]

Pithora art: How Jhabua’s Bhuri Bai broke centuries-old taboos with a brush & colours

In every household of Bhil and Rathwa tribes, who reside mostly in central Madhya Pradesh [...]

Zishta: Taking handcrafted homeware from India’s 48 craft clusters across the globe

Meera Ramakrishnan’s father was a banker by profession and cultural connoisseur by passion. She would [...]

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Biren Basak: The boy from East Pakistan who became India’s handcrafted saree tycoon

The year was 1961 and communal tensions were rife in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). As [...]

Watch: Spinning, dyeing, weaving…the making of dhabla shawl in Gujarat’s Bhujodi village

In Bhujodi village of Gujarat’s Kutch district, more than 350 weaver families have been engaged [...]

Ecotourism meets rural art & culture at Gujarat’s Woods at Sasan

On the Sasan-Talala highway in Gujarat’s Gir, an 8-acre mango orchard with nearly 300 trees [...]

Gujarat’s Pabiben Rabari: from a daily wager to a millionaire entrepreneur

“I was five, my sister was three and my mother was due with my youngest [...]