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Working with pride, not prejudice

A recent job fair for the LGBTI community attracted people from cities and small towns




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Busy hands help fight the pandemic

SHGs and prisoners in Himachal Pradesh are stitching masks/PPEs, and making sanitisers




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On the margins, but the frequency is right

Though unrecognised, community radio is playing a key role in spreading awareness about Covid-19




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‘TRANScend’ing to the mainstream

An ambitious project fights for social inclusion of transgenders




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Meet the men behind India’s own Jurassic Park

Their passion as geologists helped them discover the remains of a very distant past




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Apple orchards await workers

Amidst Covid-19, migrant labour holds the key to bountiful picking in Himachal Pradesh




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Water carriers turn ‘waterpreneurs’

Rural women in Telangana are spearheading a revolution led by the ‘water aunties’




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Women collectives prove that self-help is the best help

SHGs in the villages of Uttar Pradesh offer food security during the ongoing Covid pandemic




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Not a day’s medicine missed

How Project Ahana reached out to the HIV-positive community during the lockdown




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Hammered out by mechanisation

The hammers of the Barpeta bell-metal artisans are slowly getting silenced as machine-made products take over




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When the mask becomes the message...

as an accessory, a banner, even an easel




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The sky’s the limit, for ASMAN

How this Alliance saves mothers and newborns by timely use of technology




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Attitude makes light of altitude

Himachal Pradesh postmen delivered pension at doorstep during the lockdown




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With no stable income, their earnings have bolted

Covid-19 has meant no tourists or joy rides at the Ridge in Shimla, leaving horse owners in penury




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Back to bamboo and safety on stilts

Assamese villagers opt for traditional housing for protection against floods




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No ifs, just butts

A young entrepreneur turns cigarette waste into finished products




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‘Doctor Cotton’ is on call

Gujarat farmers now have a digital aid to boost production of the cash crop




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A rainbow-tinged sanitation makeover

How transgender and women’s groups are managing septage treatment plants in Odisha




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The return of the native

Covid disrupts lives of young women from North-East who’ve had to leave their jobs and go back home




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MGNREGA: A welcome salve in pandemic times

In Himachal Pradesh, the scheme comes as a breather to those who lost their jobs




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When work does wonders

The scenic MNREGA Park in Himachal Pradesh is testimony to labour that is creative and fruitful




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Mutual help turns pain to gain

Farmers in Nuh, Haryana, assisted each other, and tapped technology, to work around Covid-19




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Picking up the threads in Punjab

Project Trinjan has helped resurrect the concept of women’s collectives to revive traditional crafts




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From fields of green to the markets

Women in Manipur are plugging the gaps in food supply during the current coronavirus crisis




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Coping with the Covid storm

A survey among youth in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana throws up home truths about the pandemic




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Business Sakhis come of age

Meet the women micro entrepreneurs in Rajasthan’s villages




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And then there was power in Valley

Electrification has finally brought cheer to remote villages in the Kashmir Valley




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A true digital revolution or ‘exclusion through technology’?

Lack of smartphones and poor connectivity have severely cramped internet outreach in Manipur during the ongoing pandemic




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Reaping profits from perishables

Through innovation, two start-ups help tribal and marginal farmers in Chhattisgarh and Bihar preserve and market their produce




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From village fairs to the Internet

The pandemic has made traditional performers and artisans take to digital platforms




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School’s out for those not connected

Online education during the pandemic blacks out marginalised students in Odisha’s rural districts




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The blackboard must beckon

Covid impact: Mental health issues and children dropping out of school must be tackled urgently




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Looms that dispel the Covid gloom

Despite the isolating pandemic, Manipur’s women strive to weave small success stories




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Out, out, destructive pest

A mass trapping experiment is on in Maharashtra to save cotton crop from pink bollworm




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Corona heavy on young shoulders

Youth in UP, Bihar and Rajasthan are finding the ongoing pandemic challenging in more ways than one, reveals a recent survey




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‘Mentor Mothers’ raise the bar on nutrition and health

How tribal women in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Odisha are unlearning myths about food




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Let the village be the forest keeper

A project in Himachal Pradesh aims to promote community involvement and sustainability at the grassroots level




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Livelihoods interrupted

Covid-19 has disrupted training and job placement for rural youth




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Pedagogy despite the pandemic

How children without access to online education in Jharkhand and Bihar villages get their lessons




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Cellular Jail’s unfettered appeal

The 104-year-old prison in Andaman & Nicobar Islands, steeped in history, is fascinating, says its top official




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Let there be husk and light

Uninterrupted micro-grid power helped villagers in West Champaran sustain business during Covid-19




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Craft grows more shoots at the grassroots

Women artisans start their own producer companies to shape lifestyle products




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Life blooms for Odisha farmers with waterbody rejuvenation




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It’s never too remote for books

This project sets up libraries in far-flung areas of the country




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Anthropocene: A response to the contagion and climate change

Five poems from Sudeep Sen’s new collection of poetry, prose and photography




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Ray — wired to modern times

The new Netflix anthology, based on the works of Satyajit Ray, is an exploration of minds in the throes of existential crises




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Metallica, U2 and albums that built a band

The one watershed album that spurred bands to stardom and changed their fortunes forever




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Dilip Kumar’s take on Heathcliff

‘Arzoo’ consolidated the legendary actor’s image as the tormented lover




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A Miyazaki miracle in Rajasthan

They are his most precious treasure at the moment. Award winning cultivator Shreekishan Suman on growing the world’s most expensive mango variety in the Indian desert state




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Mumbai Mapped: Click to find geckos, sunbirds, and turtles

A new interactive map of Maximum City plots the flora and fauna of the megapolis