Raising Good Wives & Bad Husbands: This Kerala Woman’s Viral Post Is a...
Patriarchy often shows its colour in various forms. Sometimes it is a blatant “girls should not (insert activity of choice)” and sometimes it is very subtle, almost invisible. And then, in some...
View ArticleA Solar-Powered Way to Clean Polluted Rivers? These Students May Have Found It
Most people and civic authorities cannot find a way to manage their garbage properly, so the easiest way out for them is to dump the waste into water bodies. Despite being well educated and aware about...
View ArticleThis Engineer Grew a Fruit Forest in His Backyard & You Can Grow One Too
Manoj Kumar IB, who believes fruits are not just for humans, is on a mission to create dense fruit forests for animals, birds and humans to feast on. In an everyday ritual, a robin flies into Manoj...
View ArticleRs 19 Lakh Per Year: How a Tailor’s Son Became the Highest Paid IIM-N Graduate
Justin Fernandez may only be 27, but his story is nothing short of inspirational. Born to a tailor in Kollam, Kerala, Justin grew up fighting battles most kids his age didn’t. His grandfather was a...
View ArticleHow a Simple Bank Converted an Entire Kerala Village into Organic Farmers!
Who wouldn’t want to consume vegetables and fruits that have been grown and harvested organically? At a time when the scare of pesticide-affected and artificially ripened produce is circulating across...
View ArticleMove over Mumbai, Thiruvananthapuram to Soon Have Its Own Band of Dabbawalas
128 years ago, it was a Parsi banker whose wish to have home-cooked food in office, led to the foundation of Mumbai’s Dabbawala service, the evangelists who have been calming down the hunger pangs of...
View ArticleSeen the Viral ‘Upside down’ Photographer? Here’s This Kerala Man’s Story!
Wedding photography is all the rage across the world and India is at the forefront of the trend, with numerous photographers who are not only talented but also willing to go the extra mile to get that...
View ArticleKerala Students Build Low-Cost Alternative to Voice-Controlled Wheelchairs!
Never before has the scope of technology been harnessed in such an expansive manner, in the service of the differently-abled population across the world. Scientists, researchers and even school...
View ArticleThis ‘Bank’ Provides Dignity & Confidence To Kerala’s Poor Women, One Dress...
We have all worn clothes that have either been passed down to us from our siblings or close cousins and take particular care to ensure that the clothes are in a good condition before they are handed...
View ArticleKerala Cops Transform Barren Patch of Land, Now Grow over 40 Vegetables!
Three months ago, if one happened to pass by the police station in Ambalavayal, a small village in Wayanad, Kerala, he or she wouldn’t have possibly believed that plants could be grown in the barren...
View ArticleThis May, Kottayam Will Join Hands & Hearts to Revive Its Precious ‘Lifelines’!
For those well acquainted with Arundhati Roy’s magnum opus, “God of Small Things,” the name, Meenachil, would instantly ring a bell. Flowing by the banks of Aymanam, the rustic village immortalised by...
View ArticleKerala Sets Precedent, One Road in Every District to Be NO HORN ZONE!
The commuter in you will attest to the habit of excessive and unnecessary honking that occurs, no matter what time of the day it is, on the roads of Indian cities. Studies show that around 48% of...
View ArticleMeghalaya to Learn Waste Management from ‘Best in the World’ Alappuzha Model
Waste management is undoubtedly one of the persistent crises that every state in India is currently grappling with. While the incumbent government’s ambitious Swachh Bharat Abhiyan has been...
View ArticleMeet the Determined Man Fighting to Make Air Travel & Airports in India Safer
On May 22, 2010, one of India’s worst aviation disasters took place. An Air India Express flight from Dubai to Mangalore overshot the runway while landing and plunged into the valley before bursting...
View ArticleKerala Sets Record-Busting Green Goals, To Plant 3 Crore Saplings This Year!
Known for its green landscapes stretching across flatlands and mountainous terrains, living in tangent with nature is a way of life that has been practised in Kerala generation after generation....
View ArticleOn May Day, Kerala Ended ‘Nokkukooli’ That Paid Workers for Doing Nothing!
Those living in Kerala would have at some point fallen prey to the unfair and illegal practice of ‘nokkukooli,’ when workers of registered trade unions are employed for labour-intensive tasks like...
View ArticleTeams from 31 Countries Are Heading to Kerala, for a 3000-Year-Old Connection!
Once upon a time, the town of Muziris was known to be the most sought-after trade centre famed for its magnificence, glamour and flamboyant commerce, where ships and vessels from across the globe came...
View ArticleKerala’s 1st Female Stem Cell Donor Met the Child She Saved & This Happened!
In 2013, Kanmani Kannan, a native of Pachaperumalpatti village in the Tiruchirappalli district of Tamil Nadu, signed up as a stem cell donor during a medical camp in Kerala. Once the camp ended, she...
View ArticleFor the Parents of NEET Exam Students, This Mosque in Kerala Is Truly a Blessing
The CBSE conducted the NEET exam on Sunday for more than 1.3 million students from across India. Students from Tamil Nadu were allotted different centres in different states. Kerala, Sikkim and...
View ArticleKerala Porter Cracks KPSC by Using Railway Station’s Free Wifi to Study!
Sreenath K is the protagonist of this story. He has been working as a coolie at the Ernakulum junction in Kerala for the past five years. While he ferries luggage from one platform to another, his...
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