Festivals Prithvi Parikrama: Panna’s 400-year-old tradition of circumambulation of earth On Kartik Purnima (full moon), thousands of devotees participate in a 30-kilometre long Prithvi Parikrama in Panna, which celebrates the...
Arts & Craft Kartik Purnima and the traditional miniature boat craft of Kendrapara, Odisha The otherwise quiet village of Posei in Kendrapara district bustles with activity before Kartik Purnima when its artisan families get...
OUR ENVIRONMENT Rajasthan: Digging ponds to capture rainwater helps Dholpur farmers cultivate wheat for the first time A state government scheme in Rajasthan to encourage rainwater harvesting is bearing fruit as for the first time, the farmers...
Arts & Craft The GI-tagged Kallakurichi wooden craft of Tamil Nadu Kuppu Swamy grew up watching his father and grandfather working with blocks of wood, from which would emerge beautiful idols....
NEWS ETC One sack of fertiliser per Aadhaar; farmers in UP’s Unnao complain it is not enough Farmers in Unnao district wait days on end to get one sack of fertiliser per Aadhaar card from the government...
Teacher Connection Madhya Pradesh: Rural learning centres help kids in Barwani stay in touch with education In a bid to ensure that kids in rural households of Barwani district do not drop out of their schools...
Health Untrained, unqualified yet indispensable — jhola chhaap ‘doctors’ of rural India Rural India has a severe shortage of human resources for health. The doctor density in urban areas is four times...
OUR ENVIRONMENT Almond cultivation in Kashmir proving to be a hard nut to crack More than 91% of India’s almond production comes from J&K. But, farmers who once exclusively grew almonds in several districts...
NEWS ETC Till September this year, India faced a natural disaster almost every day: Report As per a recent report on the adverse weather events due to a changing climate, from January 1 to September...
Teacher Connection 75-yo Lalti Devi is no more an ‘angootha-chaap’ — because of an adult literacy initiative in Varanasi It is Beena Singh’s mission to teach old women to read and write. Since 2019, through her NGO, Ideal Women...
