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Swadhyay, which literally means study of the self, is a movement that has introduced realistic social change in India's rural communities
Saving the earth
Techniques developed by villagers in Himachal Pradesh can be integrated into plans to reclaim rocky wasteland in the hills
Saving Krishna's forests
This is the story of Friends of Vrindavan, a unique experiment in conservation, which brings to attention the important role that India's …
Green drive
From planting trees in his arid homeland to trapping water, this former textile dealer shows the way
Hoarding the rain
Check dams have marked a watershed in the chronically parched village of Hivare in Maharashtra
Planting trees instead of feeding brahmins
Even death ceremonies in these 1,200 villages in orissa's Puri district have been transformed
Home where the blackbuck roam
The religion of the Bishnoi community in Punjab has protected the blackbuck
Major battle for minor stuff
Trilbals dependent on the jungle's gifts fight it out in Bilaspur district
Bihar's rural Nightingales
Healthcare receives a boost in starkly poor villages
Planting trouble
Kids in aid of bilbies
Victims of ignorance
Drifting with nature
Natural farming is the only hope in sight, says a farmer from Hoshangabad
Five-star exploitation
Water for slums
More than a cuppa
Joint forest management makes Darjeeling's Makaibari estate an environmental treasure
Building a green roof
10,000 trees in 66 years, an octogenarian revives greenery in a village in Bihar
The spirit of los Haitises
Humans and forests stand at a bitter crossroad in the Dominican Republic, where conserving remnants of rainforests jeopardise the survival of …
Tissue culture in a pressure cooker
A new tissue culture technique that is claimed to be cheap and easy to understand is fast gaining popularity.
Villegers blueprint their own development
MYRADA moves a step forward in rural appraisal programmes, emphasising the necessity of involving villagers in their own development.
Artificial reefs swell fish catch in Kerala
Helped by a grassroots organisation, the fishing village of Thumba near Thiruvananthapuram is successfully creating artificial reefs to increase …
Novel approach to primary education catches on
New instruction methods have resulted in efficient primary schools in rural Andhra Pradesh, posing a challenge to the approaches adopted by the …
Former slum now has its own newspaper
A determined group of youngsters in Shaheed Nagar who started a weekly newspaper find their objectives are slowly being realised.
Helping children find work at home
Gramashrama, a children-based organisation in Karnataka, is trying to understand the causes of migration and prevent the exodus of youngsters …
Community welfare works as a contraceptive
In Pakistan, they are controlling population growth by raising the living standards of local communities through Pasbaan, the social …