Neerja Palisetty’s Sutrakaar: Weaving paper yarn to make ecofriendly handicrafts

A small group of homemakers work with thin strips of discarded paper on a sunny [...]

Coimbatore’s Kalvi Thunai: How a retired couple’s zero-fee education centre is giving a bright future to thousands of underprivileged children 

On a Saturday morning, in a yellowish-orange stucco building on a barren patch of land [...]

How Bihar’s Anita Gupta overcame discrimination & changed the lives of thousands of women through handicrafts

When Anita Gupta was a teenager growing up in Arrah, in the Bhojpur district of [...]

From supporting micro-entrepreneurs to providing education & improving slums, how NGO Saath is empowering Gujarat’s urban poor

An abusive marriage catapulted Krishna, an orphan, into depression. When she left her husband and [...]

Doctor in the morning, farmer in the evening: How Hyderabad’s Dr SR Madhavaram earns crores from organic farming of dragon fruit; helps other growers improve incomes

It was in 2016 that Dr Srinivasa Rao Madhavaram first tasted dragon fruit. He did [...]

Panzath: Kashmir village where a 900-year-old spring cleaning festival has conserved traditional water bodies

Every year in the second week of May, men, women and children from half a [...]

How this Punjab farmer makes a profit of Rs 5 lakh per acre from strawberry farming

Jaskaran Singh grew up playing in the fields of paddy and cotton in the Kauni [...]

Haryana couple quit corporate jobs to set up handmade kids’ apparel business; clock Rs 3 crore revenues while empowering rural women 

When Tarishi Jain had a baby daughter in July 2015, the doting mother made a [...]

Kashmir’s Fayaz Dar turns barren land into ecofriendly village; empowers locals through sustainable tourism

Nestled in the snow-capped Himalayas, Sagg Eco Village in the Ganderbal district of Kashmir transports [...]

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Chhattisgarh: 3,000 farmers in violence-hit Dantewada overcome poverty through collective power of Bhoomgaadi

Phulobai, 35, lives in Bade Kameli village in the Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh. Like other [...]