Spirited battle
Heady with confidence, tribal dwellers of an obscure Kerala region confront the liquor dons
Grassroots
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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
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Good as gold
The Bhairu Lok Abhyaranya Dakav in Bhanwta, near Sariska, Rajasthan, is a sanctuary with a difference. It is a sanctuary declared, protected and managed by the people. "We call it the sonchidi, since
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A procession of voices
Our syllabi (for training forest officials) still have manuals written during the Raj S K Mukherjee Acting director, Wildlife Institute, Dehradun Why do you still train foresters in horseriding
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Forests march
A walkathon through 5 states traverses through a rich crop of traditional conservation methods and a thicket of disputes
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Fishing fortunes
A unique fishing cooperative in Bihar's Madhubani district boosts the confidence and economic independence of the local women
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Till joys
Women in 3 districts in Tamil Nadu discover how to make money and ban booze for the first time
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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
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Cleaning up the frontyard
Some Delhi residents tackle the Capital's mountainous garbage problem as civic authorities apathetically look on
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Tanking up on water
Renovating traditiona_1 village reservoirs, farmers in Tamil Nadu are pursuing a green dream