#MeToo movement yet to reach rural India
Photo by Pixabay Although women routinely suffer sexual harassment at work in villages, the strangle...
Revive traditional wisdom for ealthy life in villages
Photo by Piyal Adhikary India has a rich heritage of local health traditions and reviving these dive...
Promoting input-based enterprises to spread organic farming
Photo by Jyotika Sood Promotion around locally available farm inputs can be sustainable solution. Re...
Gram swaraj in a globalizing world
Mahatma Gandhi’s vision of economically self-sufficient villages is at a distinct variance with th...
Rural youth: old prejudices or real disadvanteages?
Photo by Jasper Veen Despite long-held notions that young people in villages lack better life opport...
India’s traditional wisdom in coping with extreme weather
In large parts of the subcontinent where floods or droughts are annual or recurring events, people i...
Of kamranga and kachnar: vanishing flavors and shrinking food basket
Innumerable varieties of native fruits and leafy vegetables found in different parts of India are be...
Reversing the indefensible culture of open defecation
Ending open defecation in India’s villages cannot be the sole responsibility of the government. Th...
When the rural elite hijacks welfare schemes
Although there are multiple factors that interfere with the fair implementation of rural welfare pro...
Why do villagers often ignore obvious yet valuable things?
We need to figure out ways in which people in rural India are able to make reasoned and sustainable ...