Reportage A life less equal: At least 340 manual scavengers dead in the past 5 years Twenty eight years after it was banned in the country, manual scavenging continues in India. A 2019 survey by The...
Reportage|My Rural Connection Vocal For Local: An alliance with millets The COVID-19 lockdown taught me to depend on staples that did not include the usual processed stuff I pulled off...
Reportage Hanging By a Thread: The 200-year-old craft of weaving handloom carpets, called jamakkalams, faces extinction in Tamil Nadu The jamakkalams or handloom mats of Bhavani in Erode district, Tamil Nadu, got a GI tag in 2005-2006, but the...
Reportage|Positive Stories Community radio helps people in remote areas in Uttarakhand and the Nilgiris speak up and be heard In remote pockets of Uttarakhand and Tamil Nadu, community radios provide two-way communication and get people talking. These community radios...
Reportage “The developmental projects in the Little Andaman Island will have a direct impact on the biodiversity and cascading effects on the indigenous Onge tribe” Sanjay Molur is a well known wildlife conservationist who was recently awarded Sanctuary Asia’s ‘Wildlife Service Award 2020’. In a...
OUR ENVIRONMENT Grassroots Revival: It is the World Wetlands Day. And in the Nilgiris, native flora in its marshes, shola forests and grasslands is being restored Ecologists, students, corporates and individuals in Tamil Nadu’s Nilgiris, pitch in to restore wetlands and grasslands with native species of...
Uncategorized The perfect brew: The all-women Tea Studio in the Nilgiris is a perfect example of the local going global Eight women at an elegant and tiny tea facility in the Nilgiris in Tamil Nadu, make artisanal teas from locally...
Reportage Pongal O Pongal: Add sweetness to your day with this traditional Pongal speciality Households across Tamil Nadu prepare to cook sakkarai pongal as a thanksgiving to the farmers who put food on our...
Reportage Escaping arrest, hiding their green thundu and travelling 2,300-kms: How Tamil Nadu farmers reached Delhi to join the Bharat Bandh On Bharat Bandh today, voices from across the country join the chorus of farmer protests. However, some farmer groups have...
Reportage Hope and Scepticism: The farmers and the Centre go into their fifth round of talks tomorrow. Will they make any headway? While emotions still run high, there is a toning down of rhetoric and cautious optimism in some quarters, as the...
