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Kerala Farmer Shares How To Grow Potatoes, Carrots & More With Dry Leaves
In busy cities, several residents are taking to terrace gardening. While some use their terrace or backyards, others grow produce in their balconies. Finding ways to grow the maximum amount of plants...
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Thrissur Man Grows Banana Tree On His Terrace, With Fish Water & Waste
Four years ago, John Varghese (30), a resident of Thrissur in Kerala, began growing a few plants, including tomatoes and brinjal, on his home’s terrace. He wanted to reduce his dependence on vegetables...
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He Quit His Dubai Job To Help Kerala Farmers Grow Organic Paddy, Earn in Lakhs
“Being born in a farmer’s family is a privilege that not many realise,” says 37-year-old Tom Kiron Davis. A native of Thumbur, a small village in Thrissur district of Kerala, Tom is a proud...
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Palakkad’s 85-YO Achaar Mami Has Been Pickling for 30 Years, Sells Over 1,000...
“I’ve been making and selling pickles for over three decades now. I ought to have made some amount of profit from it, right?” asks 85-year-old Alamelu Ammal, a.k.a Ponnu mami. A resident of Kalpathy...
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Living In Our Car During Lockdown, How We Travelled Across India On a Small...
It’s close to 10.30 am on 15 April, 2021, and Harikrishnan and Lakshmi are relishing their piping hot tea in Rishikesh. Today is their fourth day in the city of sacred rivers and mountains, and they...
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Musicians Across India Rely On This Kerala Family’s 200-YO Legacy Of Mridangams
Dr. Kuzhalmannam Ramakrishnan from Kerala’s Palakkad district holds five Guinness World Records for his marathon performances, in which he plays the Mridangam, a Carnatic instrument, for the longest...
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NRI Helps 3700 Kerala Kids Learn Sustainable Ideas From ‘World’s Happiest...
Unnikrishnan Kurup (Unni) stays approximately 6,100 kilometres away from India, in Finland, a country known to be the happiest country in the world. Keeping this attribute in mind, and having spent...
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Kerala Woman Launches Traditional Cookware Inspired by Grandma, Earns 3X in...
No matter how much I try, the taste of my grandmother’s rasam made in her eeya chombu (a tin vessel) is something I can never replicate using my regular vessels. Longing for the authentic taste of...
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19-YO Invents ‘Mask Mikes’ That Amplify Voice Safely; Helps 50 Frontline Workers
Communicating with another person while wearing a mask can be uncomfortable. Studies confirmed that masks can muffle one’s speech, making it harder for the other person to hear. For people who are hard...
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How I Grew 5 Tons Of Organic Watermelon & Earned Rs 2 Lakh, Working as a...
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many people moved from urban areas to their hometowns in remote villages. While some wanted to work in the midst of nature, others quit their jobs altogether to spend time...
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Engineer Turns into Award-Winning Organic Mango & Nutmeg Farmer, Earns 13...
S Sivaganesh completed his mechanical engineering in 2006 and worked as a contractor at an atomic power station in Rajasthan. However, he quit his job in 2010 to return home to Meenakshipuram, located...
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Kerala Woman Turns Waste Coconut Shells Into Thriving Business, Sells 8000 Units
“It has been my childhood dream to start a business of my own but I did not have an idea about what it could be,” begins Maria Kuriakose, a resident of Thrissur, Kerala, who quit her job in 2019 at a...
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India Needs To Read This Open Letter From A Kerala Woman Who Survived An...
“In 2016, after spending three years in an abusive marriage filled with violence, trauma, and an extramarital affair, I decided to end my life by jumping into a well. But when I was about to do it, I...
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Kerala Lawyer’s Battle Shook The British After Jallianwala, Now Soon to Be a...
For five weeks, starting 30 April 1924, Sir Chettur Sankaran Nair, a distinguished lawyer and judge of the Madras High Court—who also served as the first (and only) Malayali president of the Indian...
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How I Used WhatsApp to Cut ‘Lockdown Loss’ For 35 Organic Farmers
During the first COVID-19 pandemic-induced lockdown, Rinoob Bhaskaran (42), a resident of Palakkad, Kerala, quit his corporate job and moved back to his parents’ home. He says his job had never been...
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5 Researchers Launch Local Radio Station For Fishermen, Save 1000s of Lives
In 2017, Cyclone Ockhi hit India, leaving coastal Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Lakshadweep devastated, before heading towards Gujarat. The cyclone claimed 365 lives and left thousands stranded in what was...
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IAS Officer’s Simple Idea Shelters Hundreds of Homeless During the Pandemic
The scenes of helpless migrant workers and the destitute putting themselves and their families at risk of the coronavirus, by walking back to their native lands in the aftermath of the nation-wide...
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Couple’s Sustainable ‘House Of Hope’ Is 50% Cheaper & Stays 8 Degrees Cooler
While many architects emphasise on the use of sustainable construction and design, a couple from Kerala has put this into action with the construction of a home using eco-friendly material. Architects...
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Transman Bodybuilder Overcomes Bullying & Trauma To Make History As ‘Mr Kerala’
After hiding his true identity for almost 15 years, Praveen Nath from Kerala’s Palakkad district decided to be honest. He no longer wanted the gender he was assigned at birth. After all, he had never...
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Shocked by Abuse, Swiss Woman Sells Her Assets to Run Safe House For Teenage...
Cristelle Hart Singh is a 49-year-old Anglo-Swiss national who made India her home in 2000. Since 2007, she has been sheltering street children, HIV patients, the needy and the underprivileged through...
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