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Akshay Kumar Donates Rs 50 Lakh Towards Drought Hit Maharashtra.

Maharashtra is currently facing one of the worst droughts in recent years. Of the 43,000 villages in the state, 27,723 villages have been declared drought-hit and 54 out of...

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Sustainable Development

On Paper Electrified Villages; In Reality, Darkness

Haldu Khata, a village in Bijnor district of Uttar Pradesh, is one of the 7,008 villages that the government claims to have “electrified” in the last year, unde...

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Alternative Entertainment

Love In The Times Of Short Stories

I never cared much for Delhi until I read Ravish Kumar’s short Hindi love stories. My old bias — perhaps from too much Premchand, and not enough ChetanBhagat &m...

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Sustainable Development

Keeping The Water Flowing In Rural Villages

Keeping projects in business for the long term has been a constant theme of the Fixes column, and if sustainability has a poster child, it would be a water pump.   Tra...

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Alternative Entertainment

Amazing Mud Paintings On School Walls In Bihar

Every year, in the remote village of Sujata in one of India’s poorest states Bihar, the Niranjana Public Welfare School organizes the Wall Art festival. Artists from ...

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itv Network Celebrates World Water Day By Launching Water Sustainability Project With Aquakraft

World Water Day is marked on 22 March every year. It’s a day to celebrate existence and significance of water in our daily life. It’s a day to make a difference...

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Sustainable Development

Dam The Drought

A village in Jharkhand has been hiding a secret for more than 30 years. The state government has declared all its 24 districts drought-affected. But Sato in Gumla district ...

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Documentary / Shorts

Maternal Mortality in India

Hanna Ingber Win explains her reporting project on maternal mortality in India.

In Muslim island villages, families marry off their daughters as young as 12 year...

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Human Rights

Agri Can Help Contain Biotic Pressure On Forests

Dilip Gode, executive director of Vidarbha Nature Conservation Society (VNCS), has been working in the field of community development for the last 25 years. Supporter of Fo...

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Gender

Mobile Phones: Patriarchy's New Red Alert

Villages are imposing mobile phone bans on young women in order to control their new independence and mobility. It started with KhapPanchayats in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and...

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