Rakesh Agarwal

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India Watershed Development Traditional Knowledge Leather Industry NGO Maharashtra Farmers Rural Development Bihar Forests

Divine protection

Kumaon villagers discover that gods are the best forest guards

Tall promises

The benefits of a watershed develqpment programme in Anantapur fail to trickle down to poor farmers

Legacy of an empire

Encouraged by their ninth century benevolent rulers, Gond landlords and villagers had set up an intricate and immensely useful network of …

A drugs story

NGOs all over southern India are helping to revive the system of local medicinal plants and herbs, holding out the promise of not just cheaper …

Artisans the untold story

Despair and devastation stare India's artisans in their face, as resource crunch, modern civilisation and government apathy combine in an …

Artisans the untold story

Despair and devastation stare India's artisans in their face, as resource crunch, modern civilisation and government apathy combine in an …

Scuttling scabs

The days when the word leper was almost an invective, and the disease itself considered a scourge, are over. Patients, voluntary workers and …

Together we stand

Will the National Alliance of People's Movements be a whiff of Fresh air blowing in winds of change, reforming the way the country views development?

Pouring prosperity

The micro-watershed development project in Maharashtra has put a stop to what was earlier an annual ritual of deserting the drought-prone …

Reviving rustic remedies

Ayurveda gets a shot in the arm in this unique NGO experiment

The swaraj dream

Urbane intellectuals join hands with proud Gond tribals in an unique exercise to chalk out planning and development in adivasi hamlets

A tale of fortitude

Tribal women in an obscure block in Bihar churn out a success story

Oasis underneath

Local people in the arid Churu district of Rajasthan know how to store sweet rainwater for the scorching, parched summers

Bihar's rural Nightingales

Healthcare receives a boost in starkly poor villages

Extinguished!

Conventional politics breaks up the fiery spirit of an ideal self-sustaining forest community

Water out of stone

A lift irrigation system helps tribals in Gujarat fight the tyranny of the seasons

Sea change in the forest

Tribals in Orissa's Eastern Ghats range are giving up shifting cultivation and fiercely protecting their forests

Powering people

Proliferating grassroots level activity in Orissa is empowering villagers, taking them closer to a fairytale end to unending tales of poverty and …

Fertilising frustration

A so-called farmer's cooperative fertiliser company is ruining agricultural land in Uttar Pradesh

Barefoot doctors

Backward Bihar villagers receive healthcare from barefoot 'first aid physicians'

What car is this anyway?

Can a pumpset metamorphose into a motor vehicle? Somewhere out there in Haryana,they call this smoke-belching, spit-and-gum contraption a Maruta

Fishing fortunes

A unique fishing cooperative in Bihar's Madhubani district boosts the confidence and economic independence of the local women

The ground for grassroots technology

A Delhi-based agency has improved the standard of living of a Himachal Pradesh village by providing it simple devices at subsidised rates

Pickled power

Hill women, long deprived of any economic rights, have found their independent, confident voice in activities spurred by a welfare group

"Watershed management is not equitable"

N K Sanghi , director, National Institute of Agriculture Extension and Management in Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh), has been advocating a modified …

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