Mysuru’s Ramsons Bombe Mane: Home to over 10,000 handmade dolls from across India

It sources handcrafted dolls of clay, terracotta, wood, ceramic, cloth and paper mache from from [...]

Maharashtra’s Paithani Sarees continue to weave magic after 2,000 years

With over 3,000 looms and 10,000 people involved in degumming, dyeing and weaving, Paithani sarees [...]

Kashmir’s walnut industry crushed by imports and infected orchards

Walnut orchards are grappling with problems of dwindling productivity, diseases and pests while market rates [...]

V Priya Rajnarayanan: This MBA has saved over 500 varieties of native vegetable seeds; gives them free to farmers & gardeners

Priya's seed collection includes over 100 types of brinjal, more than 60 types of chillies, [...]

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 [...]

Himachali Rasoi: How a software engineer is reviving the traditional cuisine of Himachal Pradesh

Himanshu Sud spent almost a year travelling with the Botis, Brahmin cooks, who are the [...]

How free medical coaching by Pune’s Lift for Upliftment is helping marginalized & tribal students become doctors 

Over 100 students from backward regions of Maharashtra have so far made it to government [...]

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Flowers turn into a big blooming business in Kashmir

More than 300 plant nurseries are now registered with the Srinagar Floriculture Department [...]

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 [...]

Indian Yards: Bengaluru couple quits top MNCs for the love of hinterland; empowers indigenous women of the Nilgiris through Macramé craft

Sunita and Suhas Ramegowda chose Macramé to provide financial independence to women as it is [...]