A Chakma Youth Is Preserving His Tribe’s Healing Practices and Its Indigenous Language December 28, 2023 Chandra Kumar Chakma, the 28-year-old healer from Tripura, has documented over 500 medicinal plants, formulations and healing practices of his...
Samuday Ke Saath — Where Tribal Filmmakers Tell Stories of Their Communities December 27, 2023 At the Samvaad conclave of Tata Steel Foundation, a short film made by a young tribal filmmaker, Mary Sandhya Lakra,...
GC Impact: Charitable initiative India Cares promises help to underprivileged cricketer Jyoti Yadav January 3, 2023 On January 1, Gaon Connection had reported on the plight of a Mirzapur-based 19-year-old fledgling cricketer who is the daughter...
Madhya Pradesh: ‘Badlaav didis’ ensure accessible healthcare to rural women in Barwani December 21, 2022 A total of 168 women from 79 villages in Madhya Pradesh’s Barwani district have been roped in as voluntary agents...
A non-profit helps displaced Baiga adivasis from the Kanha National Park, find stability December 16, 2022 Displaced from their forest homes inside the Kanha National Park in Madhya Pradesh, tribal inhabitants struggled for years to find...
Married at 8 and unlettered herself, 49-year-old Saguni Devi from Ajmer champions girls’ education August 9, 2022 Saguni Devi Bairva is an adivasi farmer from Ajmer, Rajasthan, and she so inspired another young adivasi, Arti Singh from...
‘Mahila Mates’ and Asmita app raise women’s participation under MGNREGA in Sonbhadra March 25, 2022 Launched a year ago to increase the participation of rural women in the national employment guarantee programme, the ‘Mahila Mate’...
A village in Bihar goes organic, transforming the lives of its women January 4, 2022 From blistered hands and racking coughs to financial savings and bright smiles – this is the story of women of...
Dalit priestesses have performed the rituals at this temple in Odisha for 500 years December 9, 2021 Ma Panchubarahi is perhaps the only temple in Odisha where five Dalit priestesses conduct the rituals. While they do not...
He gave up a corporate job to set up a nursery of flowers and vegetables; makes annual profit of Rs 6-7 lakh October 11, 2021 Having tired of his stressful corporate job, Sachin Kothari decided he would turn to something that he loved doing and...
A Chakma Youth Is Preserving His Tribe’s Healing Practices and Its Indigenous Language December 28, 2023 Chandra Kumar Chakma, the 28-year-old healer from Tripura, has documented over 500 medicinal plants, formulations and healing practices of his...
Samuday Ke Saath — Where Tribal Filmmakers Tell Stories of Their Communities December 27, 2023 At the Samvaad conclave of Tata Steel Foundation, a short film made by a young tribal filmmaker, Mary Sandhya Lakra,...
GC Impact: Charitable initiative India Cares promises help to underprivileged cricketer Jyoti Yadav January 3, 2023 On January 1, Gaon Connection had reported on the plight of a Mirzapur-based 19-year-old fledgling cricketer who is the daughter...
Madhya Pradesh: ‘Badlaav didis’ ensure accessible healthcare to rural women in Barwani December 21, 2022 A total of 168 women from 79 villages in Madhya Pradesh’s Barwani district have been roped in as voluntary agents...
A non-profit helps displaced Baiga adivasis from the Kanha National Park, find stability December 16, 2022 Displaced from their forest homes inside the Kanha National Park in Madhya Pradesh, tribal inhabitants struggled for years to find...
Married at 8 and unlettered herself, 49-year-old Saguni Devi from Ajmer champions girls’ education August 9, 2022 Saguni Devi Bairva is an adivasi farmer from Ajmer, Rajasthan, and she so inspired another young adivasi, Arti Singh from...
‘Mahila Mates’ and Asmita app raise women’s participation under MGNREGA in Sonbhadra March 25, 2022 Launched a year ago to increase the participation of rural women in the national employment guarantee programme, the ‘Mahila Mate’...
A village in Bihar goes organic, transforming the lives of its women January 4, 2022 From blistered hands and racking coughs to financial savings and bright smiles – this is the story of women of...
Dalit priestesses have performed the rituals at this temple in Odisha for 500 years December 9, 2021 Ma Panchubarahi is perhaps the only temple in Odisha where five Dalit priestesses conduct the rituals. While they do not...
He gave up a corporate job to set up a nursery of flowers and vegetables; makes annual profit of Rs 6-7 lakh October 11, 2021 Having tired of his stressful corporate job, Sachin Kothari decided he would turn to something that he loved doing and...