OUR ENVIRONMENT Marathwada farmer Godavari Dange’s inspiring story now as a comic book Using spare yet elegant text and illustrations in their comic book, Raindrop in the drought: Godavari Dange, Reetika Revathy Subramanian...
Arts & Craft Javed Sayyed’s handcrafted, GI-tagged Channapatna toys Channapatna in Karnataka is also fondly called Gombegala Ooru, or a city of toys. Nearly 35% of Channapatna population is...
Arts & Craft Despite the odds, Suraj Narayan Titanwala has kept alive his family occupation of Bagru block printing Bagru is a traditional printing and dyeing technique practised by the ‘chippa’ community in a remote town of Rajasthan. Suraj...
OUR FOOD Slow, sustainable and sweet The honey bee is not just a source of income to honey maker Nimit Singh, but he says the enterprise...
NEWS ETC COP26: As world leaders pledge to end deforestation, the Tamil Nadu forest department sets green goals for itself Over 100 countries pledged at the COP26 in Glasgow, to end deforestation by 2030 and preserve the critical forest covers...
Festivals Deepavali and lehyam love An unexpected gift brought back Deepavali celebrations of my childhood where along with new clothes, crackers, laddus and murukkus was...
OUR ENVIRONMENT Tiger T-23 and its tale In an action-packed month, the Tamil Nadu forest department and a team of its forest rangers, doctors and anti-poaching watchers...
Arts & Craft Handcrafting furniture and fulfilling dreams Gaon Connection’s campaign called Hands of India, supported by Flipkart, the e-commerce company, presents stories of creators, sellers and customers....
Reportage From peasants to princesses and every one in between, the Indian handloom sari has clothed them all It is National Handloom Day today, and a good time to acknowledge the contribution of the thousands of weavers who...
Reportage|Positive Stories Nel Thiruvizha, Tamil Nadu’s seed festival that has revived over 150 heritage, organic paddy varieties Fifteen years ago, at Thiruthuraipoondi, in Tamil Nadu, the Nel Thiruvizha (seed festival) movement took root and gathered thousands of...
