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Hands up for handmade: How artisans can reach markets
Rashmi Gopal Rao
When Sonia and Mala Dhawan, sisters from a fauji family, decided to help a women’s farmer group sell their products, ...
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Keepsakes are keepable when they are curated with love
Rashmi Gopal Rao
At the end of a trip, you invariably arrive home with touristy souvenirs in your bag to gift or as ...
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Taj stacker, play mat of Indian animals
Aiema Tauheed, Kolkata
SIX neat blocks that meld into a beautiful Madhubani, a puzzle that forms a rangoli, stackers of the Taj Mahal, ...
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In toy town, a family of characters takes over
Aiema Tauheed, Kolkata
In 2011, when Karthik Vaidyanathan visited Channapatna, India’s toy town, its craft of making lacquered wooden toys, was languishing. Despite ...
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Wonder grinder makes Haryanvi farmer a star in the south
Shree Padre, Kasaragod
A portable food processing machine that can grind, pulverize, extract and distil almost any fruit, crop or seed is becoming ...
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Vijayapura learns a lemon can be a moneyspinner
Shree Padre, Kasaragod
When Siddu Pujari, an agricultural scientist, went to inspect 44 lemon pickle units in his district, Vijayapura, he came back ...
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The dung enterprise
In the ordinary, Nita Deep Bajpai discovered the extraordinary. Cow dung — usually dismissed as waste — becomes in her ...
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At Chaitown everyone is happily in
Aiema Tauheed, Kolkata
In the bustling loneliness of the city, where do you go to find an audience when you want to read ...
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From fellowship to rural startup
Kavita Charanji, New Delhi
NISHANT Singh, a software engineer working with Wipro in Hyderabad, nursed a quiet ambition — he wanted to set up ...
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Hunting down Kalimpong cheese and bringing it home
Umesh Anand
IN a networked world, nothing, it seems, can ever go missing forever. Not even Kalimpong cheese. It was with great ...
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Good coffee, wondrous forest
Civil Society Reviews
WHAT makes coffee divine? A zillion processes in the lap of nature. Soil, water, microorganisms, plants, vines, trees, birds, bees, ...
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Calling the shots with cashew
Shree Padre, Uppala (Kerala)
EVERY year, Vishwakeshava Kuruveri, a 39- year-old farmer, used to sell his freshly harvested cashew crop to some cashew-processing factories ...
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The sattvic meal: Higher Taste offers a Vedic menu
Susheela Nair
LIKE any global city, Bengaluru offers a range of flavourful gourmet dining options. But Higher Taste at ISKCON is significantly ...
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Engineer saves farmers with dung cart, instant manure
Shree Padre
A ChanakaVandi, or Dung Van, roaming around Ernakulam, has so many customers it is finding it difficult to meet demand. ...
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Town with a unique cradle
Shree Padre
KALAGHATAGI, a small town in Karnataka’s Dharwad district, is famous for its beautiful cradles. Made with teak wood and painted ...
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Happy chicken, better egg: Caring farms raise the bar
Surmayi Khatana
A time there was when invariably the only eggs you bought were from the kirana store nearby. These are white, ...
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‘Wood is divine, I like being a craftsman’
Civil Society News, Gurugram
A tree lives on as wood in the hands of a skilled craftsman, becoming a thing of beauty and a ...
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Jobs grow on coconut trees: Kerala bails Chhattisgarh
Shree Padre, Thiruvananthapuram
NINE years ago, when 57-year-old Pushpangadan Mohandas, an ex-serviceman, went in search of a coconut tree climber, he couldn’t find ...
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Getting Idiyappam from a machine
Shree Padre, Kottoor
EVERY day, just before daybreak, a small farmhouse in Kottoor village swings into action. It becomes a bustling factory for ...
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Back now to your roots with Ancient Living
Surmayi Khatana
ANCIENT Living has self-care products that rival grandma’s kitchen in purity and wisdom. There are soaps, shampoo bars, scrubs, hair ...
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Brilliant new Goan beer brings back lost rice strain
Derek Almeida
WHEN Suraj Shenai launched rice beer in the Goan market in June this year, it was more than just another ...
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Authentic Kerala meal from 265 homes, 70 toddy shops
Susheela Nair
IF you want to figure out Malayali food, how should you go about it? One way would be to spend ...
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Cold Love is here with artisanal ice-cream
Surmayi Khatana
WHEN you decide to move on, what can sweetly put the past behind you? Ice-cream, for one. Gorge on it, ...
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If you are off dairy, try the goodness of nut milk
Surmayi Khatana, New Delhi
IF you are lactose intolerant, have dietary restrictions or are just vegan by choice, chances are you are looking out ...
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Picking up the green cashew, taking it to market
Shree Padre, Kasaragod
DO you know what green cashew is? Most people in cities don’t. They are familiar only with the white roasted ...
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Looking for ethical cheese? Try Käse in Chennai
Surmayi Khatana
IF you are looking for interesting cheese to buy, you had better first know what you are getting into. The ...
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Passion fruit is great and the pulp is a winner
Shree Padre, Thrissur
WHEN Binni K. Paulose was handling an agency for the Malnad Passion Fruit Company in Thrissur, he sensed a business ...
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It's a tree, it's a bird, it's Black Baza coffee!
Civil Society Reviews, Gurugram
Should a coffee be named after a tree? Or a coffee company after a bird? Of course, that’s so apt. ...
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