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After Lay-Off & Losses, NRI Found New Blend for Success in Mushroom Coffee...
While working as a chef in the United Arab Emirates, launching a startup was never on Lalu Thomas’ mind. But creating a value-added food product was. By the time he completed 15 years in the UAE, the...
View ArticleWith ‘Dancing Walls’, Kerala Eco-Friendly Home Remains Naturally Cool Even in...
Located in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram, the Pirouette House has dancing walls. Made out of mud, bricks, and waste, the Pirouette House, spread over 196 square metres, is a masterpiece in...
View Article‘Family Was Against It but We’re Happy’: MSc Grad Quits MNC Job To Sell 50...
When Serena, an MSc graduate, opened a tea shop, her family opposed the decision. She used to work at a multinational company but later decided to run a tea shop in Kochi. “My husband was an...
View Article‘I Was Offered Rs 5 Lakh for a Tree’: Ex-Marine Engineer Grows 200 Bonsai...
Lenus Xavier (59), a retired marine engineer from Kochi, has been nurturing his passion for gardening since childhood. When Lenus was 15, he discovered bonsais and was immediately fascinated. Later,...
View ArticleEngineer Turns His Home into a Hub of Over 500 Rare Medicinal Plants
A systems architect by profession, Kerala’s Ezekiel picked up collecting herbs as a hobby nearly 15 years ago. He calls himself a “collector of herbs”. His 4-acre farm in Chottanikkara has both...
View ArticleKerala Man Uses Innovative Idea to Remove 650 Kg Plastic Waste in 4 Months
Kerala’s Binu Punchakkari is single-handedly fighting to save Vellayani Lake from plastic waste. The lake is the primary source of drinking water for at least five panchayats, yet no one showed...
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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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18-YO Makes Friends in 43 Countries, Through Old-fashioned Letters and Post
Rezbin Abba’s house in Areekode village of Kerala’s Malappuram district is a treasure trove. If you ever visit, you will find a vast collection of exotic chocolates, teas, and even leaves that she has...
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NGO Uses Bamboo Products To End Village’s Agrarian Crisis, Uplift 200 Artisans
Jewellery, lampshades, pens, flower pots, sculptures, cloth hangers, storage containers, musical instruments, decorative items, houseboats, bottles, face masks — you name it, and the highly talented...
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Skip the Touristy Spots: 3 Offbeat Places in Kerala That Promise Unique...
This article is a part of the series #TravelForGood, an initiative by Kerala Tourism and The Better India to enrich traveller experiences and open up opportunities for local communities. Life as we...
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Kerala’s Manathakkali Approved by USFDA for Liver Cancer Treatment; 3 Recipes...
Noticing the unknown plant that grew abundantly in the backyard of my ancestral house, I used to wonder what it was used for. It grew everywhere like a weed but was mostly used by me in my pretend...
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Norovirus in Kerala: How It Spreads & What You Need to Know to Protect Yourself
Health agencies across India are on alert after at least 13 confirmed cases of Norovirus have been recorded in Kerala’s Wayanad district. The disease was first reported in some students of a veterinary...
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A Simple Switch in the Farm Is Helping Kerala Farmer Earn Rs 30 Lakh/Year
There is no space on Swapna James’ 15-acre farm that has been left unattended. She has judiciously and smartly used every inch of the field to implement a farming technique called intercropping. The...
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Overcoming Grief & Abuse, Burn Victim Helps 100s Others With Free Plastic...
Everyone thought Neehaari Mandali’s life was over when she attempted suicide by setting herself on fire. Not many around her acknowledged the abuse the then 20-year-old had faced from her husband’s...
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A Field of 8000 Sunflowers Gives Farmer ‘Golden Yield’ of Rs 10 Lakh Profit
When Sujith Swami Nikarthil first sounded the idea of growing sunflowers on his two-acre farm at Kanjikkuzhi, Alappuzha district, people were sceptical. They said sunflowers don’t grow well in Kerala...
View Article1st Indian to Win Miss Trans Global Title, Sruthy Sithara was Once Ridiculed...
Sruthy Sithara has made India proud by winning the title of Ms Trans Global Universe 2021. The 25-year-old Kerala native is the first Indian to hold this title, held during an online event. “Miss Trans...
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Engineer Quits Job, Uses Robotics to Save Father’s Legacy of Leather Puppetry
When the administrators of Palakkad District Heritage Museum, also known as Mani Iyer Museum, approached Sajeesh Pulavar to make some dolls, he remembers thinking back to a puppetry automation idea...
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Kerala Farmer Sources Seeds From India & Japan to Grow 650 Varieties of Paddy
Sathyanarayana Beleri, of Nettinege village in Kasaragod, grew up watching beautiful paddy fields that flourished in his village. He was very fond of the crop, its fields and the pathways around them...
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28-YO Turned 30,000 Kg Waste Cloth Into Usable Products & Helped 40 Women Earn
In 2012, when Sanju Soman started an NGO named SARSAS (Save A Rupee Spread a Smile) in Thiruvananthapuram, which aimed at encouraging charity and social work in youngsters, he never thought that it...
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Like Plantation Drives? This Startup Ensures ‘Taggers’ Verify The Trees you...
A group of climate-conscious individuals in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala have found a unique solution to the problem of abandoned saplings by developing an application that could provide transparency...
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