Despite the industrial and economic development in recent years, poverty still remains a constant impediment to the real growth of India. In most of the cases, begging becomes the only choice for the survival for amny poor. People visiting various religious sites like Gurudwara and Mosques offer alms in the form of cash, food, and …
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Wondering how to keep the clutter out? Gayatri Gandhi’s simple tips will make it easy for you to decide what to keep and what to get rid of! Here’s something for you to do – spend the next two minutes looking around the room you are in right now, take in everything that is in …
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Once forbidden by colonialists from cultivating coffee, indigenous people in southern India have won a prestigious award for their bean, which they farm while fighting deforestation. Araku Valley Coffee won gold in the Prix Epicures OR Award in Paris earlier this month. The beans are grown by Adivasis – or “original inhabitants” – of southern …
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Mumbai: In June 2018, when the Maharashtra government imposed a ban on single-use plastic items such as straws, spoons, polythene, cups, etc, a 26-year-old man sitting a thousand kilometres away in his house in Chennai wondered how the ban will be implemented in such a huge state. Mayank Jain’s first thought was, ‘how will people drink nariyal …
Malini Parmar and Smita Kulkarni’s firm manufactures menstrual cups, reusable cloth pads and diapers, natural cleaning agents and composting kits among other environment friendly solutions. “At Stonesoup, we aim to make sustainable living easy. We believe 95 per cent of the waste can be easily rescued from landfill if it’s segregated,” says Malini Parmar, co-founder …
