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Disability dilemma: The caregiver too needs care
HEALTH WORKERS need to be at peace with themselves even as they work with people ...
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Udupi school grows paddy to revive fields
WHEN the school’s golden jubilee was to be celebrated last year, Murali Kadekar, headmaster of ...
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Pre-loved books, anyone? Here is some shelf help
IF you happen to enjoy reading and are also a compulsive buyer of books, no ...
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Hyperlocal reporting goes right home in Nandurbar
HOW do you get hesitant villagers in backward nooks of the country to turn up ...
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Car seat to crutch and music app for the disabled
The world’s first self-standing crutches are called Flexmo. TurnPlus is a swivel chair that can ...
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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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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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Wular Lake is choking with sewage, filth
WULAR Lake, one of Asia’s largest freshwater lakes, is turning into a shadow of its ...
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The next pandemic?
Masarhi is a village in Bihar so steeped in grinding poverty that its people are known ...
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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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Coming soon: A heritage park in Hyderabad
EVERY city has its surprises and they show up for those who look for them. ...
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A stunning Ahom legacy beckons in Assam
AS we rambled through Sibsagar, the heartland of the Ahom kingdom in Assam, we felt ...
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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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‘The oppressed classes don’t know their power’
FEW people are blessed with R.S. Praveen Kumar’s enormous energy. A tall and lean man ...
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It is like the Bigg Boss House...
HOW much money and time would you put into developing leaders who will serve India ...
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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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Honey from Etna
KAVITA Khorana and her husband started Etna in late 2015. They borrowed the name from ...
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The good noodle is here and getting popular
NOODLES come with irresistible charms. Children who won’t eat their meals will happily slurp up ...
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Bad apples: Scab takes a big toll in Himachal
Apple orchards in Himachal Pradesh have fallen victim to a disease called scab after a ...
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Field report: Children suffer learning loss
An extract from a field report by the Azim Premji University on the impact of ...
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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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Everyone is in Goa now!
The tiny state of Goa has been making national headlines. Assembly elections, normally predictable, are ...
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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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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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Development is the target, says Tata Steel’s Sourav Roy
It is five years since Jamshedpur began hosting Samvaad, an event at which tribal people ...
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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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Passion fruit is great and the pulp is a winner
WHEN Binni K. Paulose was handling an agency for the Malnad Passion Fruit Company in ...
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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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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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Will poor safety kill India’s textiles boost?
When a fire broke out at the Nandan denim factory in Narol, a major textile ...
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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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Talking to young men about women
TWenty-three-year-old Gaurav Tripathi comes from a large, conservative joint family headed by his paternal grandfather ...
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The Vir Chopra we came to know and will always ...
“I AM Vir Chopra,” said the very fit-looking and fair-skinned man of medium height, putting ...
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