Reportage A Pala period treasure unearthed in a Jharkhand village The Archaeological Survey Of India has excavated a Buddhist monastery-cum-shrine at Bahoranpur village in Jharkhand’s Hazaribagh district.
Arts & Craft Sohrai Art: Where tribal women bring alive peacocks, flowers and lumbering elephants on the mud walls of their homes Sohrai art from Jharkhand got a GI tag last year. The traditional wall mural painting practised by the women folk...
Reportage Millet magic: Kodo and Kutki calling in Chhattisgarh This monsoon, after a gap of 15 years, Gond adivasi farmers across eight villages of Gaurella-Pendra-Marwahi district return to their...
Reportage Wounded Wombs: In Madhya Pradesh’s Dindori district, rural women allege Copper T contraceptive inserted in their bodies without consent Across all seven blocks in Dindori, against the target of 3,000 women, 3,984 had Copper T inserted between April 2019...
Reportage|Positive Stories Tigers and a Tale: How smokeless chulhas and saris-turned-mahua-nets are helping reduce human-tiger conflict in Melghat Tiger Reserve, Maharashtra Smokeless chulhas, handicraft-making and innovations in collecting mahua flowers have ensured villagers around the Melghat Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra don’t...
Reportage|Positive Stories Mahua and millet cookies: Marginalised rural women in Chhattisgarh bake and sell cookies made of traditional grains The Jay Maa Kali self-help group in Kudalgaon village of Bastar district, which comprises 11 women, bakes cookies with little...
Reportage Twin Benefit: Chhattisgarh revives 800 rivulets under its Narwa Vikas Yojana, provides employment to thousands of villagers The Chhattisgarh government has mapped 1,955 rivulets in the state under the Narwa Vikas Yojana of which 800 have been...
Reportage Reviving degraded farmlands in Karnataka’s Bandipur through agroforestry The project started by Swayyam aims to cover 24.28 hectares in Yelachatti village with a mix of crops and trees...
Reportage|Positive Stories Chhattisgarh hopes to end human-wildlife conflict using seedballs of fruit trees After dispersing a million seedballs last year, the Chhattisgarh forest department has spread 2.5 million more seedballs this monsoon to...
Reportage In Bengal’s tea estates, workers co-exist with leopards, but they don’t always see eye to eye Human-leopard conflict is on the rise in North Bengal. The state forest department promotes trapping and relocation of leopards. But,...
