I watched the teens running with friends along the riverFlowing from the snows of the Himalayas,They jumped into the water, they collected pebblesThat captivated their eyes and their senses.They ate, they drank, they made merry…
Mir of Kashmir: Wildlife Rescuer
Aaliya Mir, a resident of Srinagar, spends her days rescuing deadly vipers from Kashmiri homes, saving bear cubs and reuniting them with their mothers. [auth] The 42 year old former Maths teacher, with sports shoes,…
Farmer’s Unique Marketing Idea
By switching to organic farming, Purushottam Sidhpara from Junagadh, Gujarat, cut down his input costs by 40% and water usage by 20% while earning export orders from 10 countries. He invites potential dealers/customers to his…
Keeper of Kerala’s Silent Valley
The Silent Valley National Park in Palakkad is one of the most well-known tropical forests in India, with a wide variety of rare species of flora and fauna including the endangered lion-tailed macaque. [auth] In…
Urban Jungle on Terrace
A retired Engineer from Bengaluru, Nataraja Upadhya has created an urban jungle on his terrace with many trees, and lots of butterflies and birds. Bengaluru is a concrete jungle now. Waiting for a hot summer,…
The First Railway Station in India with Vertical…
Environmental scientists visited and recorded the Air Quality Index (AQI) of Ludhiana and found it 275. But the AQI in the Office of Rohit Mehra at the India Revenues Service (IRS), was just 78! Read…
COMMUNITY INITIATIVE – TO SOLVE PERENNIAL WATER CRISIS
Gujarat Woman Revives 675 Water bodies to solve Water Crisis of 5000 families in Kutch. On World Water Day (22nd March), Gazala Paul, founder of Ahmedabad-based NGO ‘Samerth’, talked about how she helped 97 villages…
An arid Kerala village checked water for irrigation
Farmers of Yethadka, near Kasaragod, Kerala, pool money to build 16 temporary check dams on tributaries of the Chandragiri River, with available resources. An 11-metre high granite wall with water to the brim, they call…
Engineer-turned Farmer harnesses Wind & Solar Energy
Frustrated by the erratic power supply, Gitaram Kadam built a windmill and a solar power plant in Maharashtra, to help irrigate farmlands in his village. [auth] He bought a 12-acre land in the village to…