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Nilah from the Nilgiris is the Good Doll for all ...
A child’s first bestie is her doll, soft, cuddly, someone to play with, whisper little ...
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The Super 300 route to jobs
Aprototype of Bihar’s Super 30 has emerged in Dehradun, called Super 300. But that’s where ...
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The art of serenity
The hardcover book draws immediate attention. Eye-catching illustrations on textured paper portray aspects of Goan ...
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At Samvaad, magic happens
When 2,500 people from 153 tribes gathered in Jamshedpur in November, there was a convergence ...
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A law shaped over 11 years repealed in just two ...
THE undemocratic, hasty repeal of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and ...
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Go to Lakadong for the best turmeric in the world
FOR those who have grown up on a daily glass of doodh with haldi in it, turmeric’s rockstar international ...
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Unsafe India: Workers make a tally of accidents
SAFE in India (SII)’s sixth annual report, “CRUSHED 2024”, breaks new ground. For the first ...
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Doon’s forest of many memories
A Remembrance Forest or Smriti Van is emerging on a three-acre patch on the outskirts ...
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Why are people across India dying of rabies?
Deaths from rabies caused by dog bites have been taking place in a disaggregated way ...
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The all-time mentor
Politicians are generally seen as being episodic and transactional. They move on easily and look ...
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Wullar Lake loses fish species in pollution onslaught
Jehangir Rashid Srinagar From 70 species of fish to just four. That’s the state ...
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Call of the Cockroach
BEGINNING on June 6 in the blistering afternoon heat of Delhi, a series of protests ...
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Trinkets from the hills, skincare and no oil snacks
TRINKETS FROM THE HILLS SONAM Dorjee Negi welcomes every visitor to his stall at Dastkar’s ...
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NGOs work hard but get a raw deal in regulation
The voluntary, non-profit sector has contributed to democracy, equity and nation-building during and after Independence. It ...
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Let non-profits function, make FCRA simpler
THERE has been over-regulation of non-profit organizations when what they really need is to be ...
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People and products
Get the lowdown here on brilliant handicrafts, wholesome noodles, ancient rice, donkey milk, inclusive coffee, ...
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Hamals resent change in ‘their’ law in Maharashtra
A law that protects the rights of casual labour in Maharashtra has been amended, prompting ...
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Wetlands in Kashmir are withering
Although there are five wetlands of international repute in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K), they don’t ...
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When a family meets: A play on relationships
A family drama simply entertains but The Gathered Leaves is not that kind of play. ...
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Rural marathon says it all for the girl child
Every year, villages in Anupshahr tehsil of Bulandshahr district in Uttar Pradesh witness a unique ...
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Dr MARY & Dr RAJKUMAR | KC Patty CF Health ...
RAJKUMAR Ramasamy and his wife, Mary, have spent the past 20 years of their lives ...
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Village weaves and Kaziranga Haat
Rupjyoti Saikia Gogoi lives in the vicinity of the Kaziranga National Park. For a long ...
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Stampede after stampede after…
There have been at least 14 significant public events resulting in stampedes and other forms ...
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The PHC should be the first to spot signs of ...
STRONGER primary healthcare is the foundation for early detection of the emergence of a disease ...
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Jack the Vietnam way
ABOUT a decade ago Tom C. Kavalackal, a well-to-do Keralite, made a trip to Vietnam. Quite ...
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Wonder grinder makes Haryanvi farmer a star in the south
A portable food processing machine that can grind, pulverize, extract and distil almost any fruit, ...
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Time for reset with elbow room for the states
Our national anthem extols the extent of India by naming a few provinces of those ...
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A wild plant Power list
Modern pharmacology draws on folk knowledge of medical plants. It is an old debt that remains ...
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Artability: 10 emerging artists worth tracking
A year after Civil Society launched Artability, we are back with a new edition showcasing 10 artists ...
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Cockroach stir off to a flying start, spreading
Swarms of supporters of the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) descended on Jantar Mantar in central ...
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It is important to help the poor access their rights
Are advocacy, yatras, social audit and online services sufficient to enable the rural poor to ...
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Sanitation economy is on the rise with jobs, tech
Has the world ceded to sanitation being costly and difficult, a problem we must solve ...
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Give with heart: Some gems from small producers
There is often a dilemma when it comes to finding an ideal gift for loved ...
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Kashmir’s villages keen to be put on state's tourist map
There are destinations off the beaten track that tourists with a yen for adventure can ...
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The agony of growing poppy
Vivek Chaudhary’s 82-minute documentary, I, Poppy, dives deep into a world beset by corruption, coercion ...
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Companies pledge better worker rights
WHEN the sorry plight of industrial workers was in everyone’s face during the Covid-19 pandemic ...
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Bahraich women celebrate a big strawberry boost
THERE is palpable excitement in Gajpatipur village of Bahraich district in Uttar Pradesh (UP) where ...
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Students learn farming by getting down to it in the ...
Every week two or three teams of curious schoolchildren turn up at Deesan Farms, in ...
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Has AAP lost more than just the elections in Delhi?
DURING the high noon of the India Against Corruption agitation, the Ramlila Ground in Delhi ...
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SEWA shows how followers can become leaders
THE ramshackle settlement of migrant workers along the Trikampura Patiya canal in south Ahmedabad was, ...
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Gandhi’s bhajans are melodies of nonviolence
Mahatma Gandhi’s life was deeply intertwined with music particularly devotional songs known as bhajans. These ...
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Indraani Singh
In 1995 when Indraani Singh became India’s first female pilot to be Commander of an ...
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Landfills don't work, learn to segregate garbage
The thought of an Indian city most often throws up images of teeming millions, traffic ...
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Engineer-ecologist: Tribute to Dhrubajyoti Ghosh
In the many years that the Leftist parties governed West Bengal, they paid little attention ...
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Farm magazine by farmers works well for them
In more ways than one, Adike Patrike is a unique publication. We tread a new path ...
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Every city can be smart
The selection of the first lot of 20 smart cities by the central government saw ...
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Kashmir tries hard to bring its tourists back
When Omar Abdullah, chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, casually cycled down a street in ...
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New filmmakers weigh in, but the mega stars rule
INDIAN cinema underwent paradigm shifts in the new millennium. It transited to the digital format, ...
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Fearless pen: not the first attack on Wagle
BE Fearless is a compelling, timeless but difficult call. When you are confronted by a ...
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JNU celebrates street theatre with Sahmat
Protesters became performers on 12 April, National Street Theatre Day, at Jawaharlal Nehru University’s (JNU) ...
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‘We went from beekeeping to serving hot meals’
BANKS tend not to go to villages and small towns until they are nudged into ...
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Longer hours, lower wages, less security, fewer women
Job creation was on the agenda of the BJP government when it came to power ...
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Burhan Wani and the flashpoint in Kashmir
The protests and violence that have followed the killing of Burhan Muzaffar Wani, 20, have ...
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Elder care in these times
Research indicates that people over 60 are at a greater risk of contracting COVID-19. Those ...
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The right to know
This story appeared in Civil Society's September 2003 edition. Till two years ago, what Sundernagari knew ...
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Flowers and plants
Screw tree Helicteresisora L. or the East Indian Screw Tree is a handy shrub ...
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Father says son killed for just owning a horse
Since his childhood, 21-year-old Pradip Rathod, a Dalit from Timbi village in Bhavnagar district, always ...
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'UCC is right on polygamy, wrong on moral policing'
SOCIAL reforms have for long eluded Indian Muslims because of an obdurate clergy. Among the ...
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A good cause needs lights, camera, action...
Social entrepreneurs take up complex missions but to reach out their messaging has to be ...
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Worry lines deepen in the media after NewsClick
WHEN the shutters were recently downed on NewsClick in early morning raids by the Delhi ...
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Ready for CSR 2.0? Five ideas for shifting gear
CORPORATIONS have an impact and touch lives in different ways when they use corporate social ...
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