Training villagers in organic farming

Despite the general reluctance of farmers to adopt organic farming, one village in Tamil Nadu is using these techniques successfully.

From bonded labourers to green crusaders

Impoverished tribals living in the shadow of the Sahyadri hills show how degraded land can be revived by simply working unitedly

Carving oases in drought-prone Kutch

The Shree Vivekananda Research and Training Institute has made a name for itself, helping villagers in Kutch district. Among its innumerable …

Second-hand is better

Junked aeroplane tyres are being used on camel carts in Rajasthan, making life easier for both the villagers and the animals

Fisherfolk thwart bid to reclaim wetlands

A unique fishing cooperative that salvaged the wetlands leased to them by the Calcutta Port Trust has successfully fought off attempts to …

"Power" to the people irks Bengal villagers

Villagers near Calcutta contend they have been unfairly done out of their land by a private thermal power plant project

Death by starvation

About 11 million people in Orissa and Bihar have become victims of a famine that has occurred despite adequate food stocks in the country.

Skilled hands turn waste bark into art

The planting of commercially valuable chir trees has become embroiled in controversy in Ultar Pradesh's Almora district. But a local …

Building self-reliance in children of the street

Butterflies, a non-government organisation, is helping street children to organise themselves and operate a restaurant in the Capital's main bus …

From miracle cures to holistic development

A doctor whose aim once was to treat poor patients, now helps Soliga tribals to assert their rights and choose their own way of development.

Working children find a home in Bangalore

A voluntary group helps street children by organising them into associations and building a home for them.

Trekking to balanced development

Gandruk, a small Nepali village on a popular trekking route, will be visited by more than 80,000 tourists before the year ends. But an unusual …

The swaraj dream

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

Killing fields

The Congress wields the butcher's knife, and environment is the casualty

Water out of stone

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

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

Down with the reservoir

Digging out trouble

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 …

In search of an alternative

Drastic reduction in the cycle of shifting cultivation and soil erosion are forcing the Karbi tribe of Assam to explore sustainable agricultural …

Struggling to survive as

Marginalised by developmental processes, local people are fighting for their right to manage forests

Planter of Indore

A zoology professor motivates people to plant trees in memory of the deceased

A silent white revolution

Women living in a non-descript village in Gujarat revive a defunct dairy, earlier run by men. Today, not only do they churn out 100 per cent …

The sacred groves

Khasis in Meghalaya help in environmental regeneration

Fly for the right price

Strohalm, an environmental group, launches a campaign to tax corporate flyers in the Netherlands