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Kerala Man Starts Farm On Terrace, Now Harvests 120 Kg of Organic Veggies...
If you ever visit the White Magic Shooting Floor Studio in Ramanatukaara, a picturesque town in Kerala, you can be sure that you won’t be leaving with just pictures. The studio is also home to a...
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Kerala Techie Quits Job, Now Farms 550 Exotic Fruits From Across The World!
After a string of failures with his startup ideas, William Mathews, an MCA graduate from Kappatumala, a village in Kozhikode, decided to move to the UAE. But in 2010, William left his job there,...
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Kerala Man’s Self-Sustaining 10 Acre Farm Gobbles Up the Waste of An Entire...
PM Illias from the Pulickal Panchayat in Malappuram, Kerala has been innately connected to nature since his childhood. Wanting to carve out a piece of heaven for himself, he began cultivating a forest...
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Moved by Video, Kerala Man Rescues 14 Indian Students Stuck in Rome Without Food
“Right now we’re in Italy. We’ve booked the ticket to Kerala and we’ve reached the check-in but the Italian government is saying that the Indian govt. is not permitting anyone inside the country right...
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Kerala Man Drove An Auto To His Dreams, Earns PhD To Become Lecturer!
From working in a quarry after passing out of Class 10 to selling fish, the string of odd jobs that Ajith had to take up to sustain his family is unbelievable. But the will to learn and the...
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Kerala Techies Make Eco-friendly Papaya Straws That Last For 6 Months!
Using and throwing that plastic straw is such a trivial thing, no? How much time does it take anyway? A few seconds? Chucking that thin bit of nothing in the can and forgetting all about it. But the...
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Here’s How This Kerala Engineer Grows 26 Types of Veggies In Just 60 Sq Ft...
Nasar, a resident of Arukutti, a town in the Alappuzha district, is an engineer who also doubles up as a farmer. Spending only 30 minutes on his farm, a plot of land measuring 60 square feet, every...
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Idukki’s ‘Fruit King’: Architect Turns 10 Acres Into 100-Variety Fruit...
After working as an architect for almost 15 years, Eldho Pachilakkadan, 42, a resident of Kottayam, decided to quit his job and turn to a simpler lifestyle surrounded by nature. He turned this dream...
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Kerala Man Digs 1000+ Cave Wells in 50 Years, Builds Rare ‘Suranga’ Water System
Digging through the ‘suranga’ cave wells, one of the oldest water harvesting systems found in the regions of north Kerala and Karnataka, 67-year old Kunjambu has singlehandedly provided water to the...
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In Just 5 Years, Kerala Woman Gets Entire Village to Grow Their Own Vegetables!
Twenty years ago, if someone would have told Seenat Kokkur that she would one day be an expert agriculturist and transform the lives of many women, she wouldn’t have believed it. But that’s precisely...
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Kerala’s ‘Nightingale-19’ Robot Serves Meals, Helps Doctors Treat COVID-19...
For the past one week, the hallways of the Kannur Medical College Hospital have been empty. Although there are approximately 50 patients who have been admitted after exhibiting symptoms of COVID-19,...
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Bamboo & 90% Recycled Waste: Kerala Architect Builds Green Home in 4 Months!
We all dream of a beautiful home that we can call our own. This is perhaps a shared aspiration that we earnestly work for. But, there are several choices that one needs to make to ensure that in the...
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Saudi’s Sands to Kerala’s Hills, This Organic Farmer Can Grow Profits Anywhere!
With over half the area of Saudi Arabia being deserts, the possibility of practising agriculture there is very minimal. But for 15 long years, Hameed A, a farmer from Kerala, has been growing all kinds...
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Lockdown: 4 Kerala Youngsters Brave All Odds to Deliver Medicines to 100+...
The 2018 floods devastated Kerala, claiming 480+ lives. When transport facilities shut down, the supply of essentials and medical facilities became difficult. Fortunately, one group of volunteers...
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Kerala’s Man of ‘Final Goodbyes’ Has Helped Bring Back 5000 Bodies of Expats
“Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.” This quote by Haruki Murakami comes to mind as I sit down to write about Ashraf Thamaraserry. In the last 20 years, Ashraf has repatriated the...
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This 24-YO Kerala Girl Fought For Her Dreams Till Her Bones Broke, Quite...
Can you imagine a scenario where your bones get fractured if you sneeze too hard or if you shake hands with someone? For Fathima Asla, 24, who has lived with Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), also known as...
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Kerala Friends Build Homes & Schools for Flood Victims, Take No Labour Charges
“The 2018 Kerala floods came as a blessing for me… The house we used to live in was made from boards and plastic sheets. We couldn’t even call it home. It couldn’t bear the slightest wind. It might...
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Kerala Man’s Low-Cost System Waters Upto 10 Plants On Its Own!
When it comes to maintaining a garden or even a farm, watering the plans is one of the most important chores that needs to be performed every day. It is not something that can be skipped. To make this...
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Kerala Man Grows 50+ Mango Varieties On Terrace, Including One Named After...
Joseph Francis, a resident of Ernakulam, grows almost 40 varieties of trees and practices pisciculture in his compound. Doesn’t sound like a big deal, right? Wrong. In just 5 cents of land, with 1800...
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430+ Varieties of Bananas: Kerala Man’s 3-Acre Farm Bears Harvest Worth Over...
With The Positive Collective, The Better India’s COVID-19 coverage is available to regional language publications for free. Write to editorial@thebetterindia.com for more details. Vinod Sahadevan...
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