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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...
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1st 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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In 15 Years, Farmer Sources 170 Plantain Varieties From Pan India to Grow On...
“I have been very enthusiastic about farming since my childhood,” begins 47-year-old MK Nishanth from Wayanad in Kerala. He has been growing more than 170 varieties of plantain from different parts of...
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‘They Said It’s Impossible’: Meet Haritha KK, India’s First Female Captain of...
“I was in my first year of college when (Captain) Skipper Arun addressed me as ‘Captain Haritha’ while asking me to respond to a query in his class. I got goosebumps when I heard my name along with...
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India’s First Bamboo Band Is Taking the Sound of Nature to the World
“Culture nourishes in nature. Without nature, culture can’t exist. Without culture, society can’t [either],” said Kerala-based Vinod Nambiar of the Vayali Folklore Group, the first bamboo band in the...
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This Librarian Spent 41 Years Walking 12 Km Daily To Deliver Books
For the last 41 years, one man in Karuvatta in Kerala’s Alappuzha has been walking 12 kilometres, from house to house, every day. His only companions are two bags full of 60-70 books, and lunch packed...
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Why a Retired Policeman Teaches This 3000-Year-Old Indian Martial Art Form...
What started as a mere fascination for centuries-old martial art, Kalaripayattu has now turned into a mission for K V Muhammad Gurukkal. Based in Kerala’s Kozhikode district, Gurukkal has been training...
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Award-Winning Dad-Daughter Duo Organically Grow 300 Kg Of Rare, Near-Extinct...
While most children were sitting idle at home or playing mobile games during the COVID-19 induced lockdown last year, thirteen-year-old Banupriya M S from Alappuzha, Kerala was waiting for a bountiful...
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26-YO Kochi Man’s Startup Wins Over Silicon Valley, Makes It to Forbes 30...
Entrepreneur Ashwin Sreenivas (26) was recently listed in Forbes’ annual 30 Under 30 list for his US-based tech start-up Campfire. Hailing from Kochi, Kerala, Ashwin moved to the United States to...
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Built on a Pond, Stunning Natural Bamboo Homestay in Kerala is a Must-See
Wayanad native Baburaj’s only plan was to build a bamboo house, little did he know it would be in the middle of a pond. Today, his three-storeyed house also helps them earn a livelihood. Baburaj, a...
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After Losing Jobs to COVID, 3 Engineers Find Success Selling Tea From a Pushcart
There are thousands of tea stalls dotting the highways in Kerala selling steaming hot ‘chaya’. But if you ever pass through Pallimukku, a town in Kollam district of Kerala, you could easily spot the...
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Blind Woman Beats Odds to Earn Rs 50k/Month Selling Ghee & Superfood Supplement
Geetha Saleesh from Thrissur, Kerala, was only 13 years old when she was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a rare genetic disorder. She started losing her vision eventually and turned blind by the...
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I Earned 130+ Online Certifications From Yale, Princeton & More In Lockdown;...
When the pandemic broke out in 2020 and online classes became the norm everywhere, Shafi Vikraman from Thiruvananthapuram discovered the possibility of learning from anywhere in the world. He says he...
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Shatavari to Queen Sago: How We Used Rare Forest Produce to Double Tribal...
In Kerala, amid the Chalakudy and Karuvannur River basin, dwell the indigenous tribes of Kadar, Malayar, and Muthuvar. These tribal groups sustain mainly through forest produce. For the last four...
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