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Decentralised Midday Meal Kitchens Offer Fresh Food To Students & Livelihood Support To Women in Odisha

The benefits of decentralised midday meal kitchens, where noon meals are freshly cooked at the school premises, go far beyond...

Kashmiri Kangri Is Losing Its Warmth

For centuries now, Kashmiri kangri tucked inside a phiran has helped people survive the biting cold winters of Kashmir. But...

Uttar Pradesh: Rural Women Use Tailor Discards to Stitch and Sell Doormats

Leftover cloth from tailoring is being put to good use by women in Shahjahanpur in Uttar Pradesh as they turn...

The Magical Yoga Tree — Quick Yoga Tips For Kids

Yoga can be fun. There are birds to pose as in yoga. Pose like a crow, stand like the Siberian...

In Rural West Bengal, Women Roll 500 Beedi a Day for Rs 90 Wage

Financial support for housing and health under the Beedi Workers Welfare Organisation has not been coming in, complain beedi workers,...

Walking the Healing Path

Sarojini Goyal Panika sees herself as a custodian of traditional medicinal wisdom passed down to her by her grandfather and...

A Hub of Food and Livelihood

Trained under a government programme, 12 young Kashmiri women who come from fishing and farming communities have set up a...

A Road Map for Traditional Healers

Can traditional healing practices be integrated with mainstream medicine? A conclave organised by Tata Steel Foundation in Jamshedpur fielded this...

From Mining to Mushroom Cultivation in Tribal Villages of Panna

Silicosis, a lung disease, killed their family members who worked in mines and quarries of Panna in Madhya Pradesh; and...

A Winter Delicacy, The Patali Gur of Bengal is a Labour of Love, and Hard Work

The traditional date palm jaggery makers of West Bengal climb up and down at least 60 palm trees a day...