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76-YO Gritty Garhwali Woman Who Planted A Forest & Saved Her Village!
Even at the age of 76, Prabha Devi’s tremendous energy is a matter of mystery for the entire village. Her son, Manish, 44, is left spellbound every time he visits his parents’ hill cottage in the...
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Noida Couple Builds Homestay In the Hills With 26,500 Discarded Plastic Bottles!
We often make declarations on social media platforms about how we should work to protect the environment, give up using single-use plastic products, harvest rainwater and basically lead a sustainable...
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Easy Red, Black Rice Recipes: The Taste of the Himalayas in 1 Hour!
The Forbidden Kheer: Cultivated in the rich Manipur soil and irrigated by the unadulterated Himalayan streams, the Black Rice is yet another gem from the land of jewels. This fragrant and...
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5 Tasty Recipes to Try Using Super Nutritious Himalayan Red Rice
A staple dish in every Indian household, rice comes in many colours, each with its unique flavour.. While white rice is the most commonly used variety in our country, there are interesting varieties...
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TBI Green Influencers: Learn Healthy Baking From a Remote Himalayan Village!
We often receive emails from our readers, asking doubts about their experiments with sustainable living. So, here’s a section dedicated to you – TBI’s ‘Green Influencers’ where we reach out to...
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Banning Tourists to 6 Months’ Ration: How Indian States Are Tackling COVID-19
Henk Bekedam, the WHO Representative to India on #Coronavirus, has applauded India’s handling of the COVID-19 outbreak, saying, “The commitment from Indian Govt., the Prime Minister’s Office has been...
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#CoronaWarrior: Uttarakhand Man Turns Car Into Ambulance to Help During Lockdown
Thirty two year old Ganesh Bhat, a resident of Devprayag of Tehri district, Uttarakhand, has been extremely busy since the lockdown was imposed in India. With 108 medical emergency number not...
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Uttarakhand to Kerala: Indians Show Solidarity Amidst Social Distancing With...
This article has been published in partnership with Castrol India What happens when more than a billion people in a country are asked to stay at home to practise ‘social distancing’? India has been...
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Why ‘The Bob Marley of Indian Cricket’ Vows To Play The Game Till He Dies
There have been two definitive moments in the nascent cricketing career of Techi Doria, the diminutive and dreadlocked opening batsman from Arunachal Pradesh. The first arrived on 21 September 2018, in...
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Uttarakhand Fireman Turns ‘Medicine Man’; Delivers to 100+ People in 6+...
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. For patients of...
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In Pics: Lockdown Got You Feeling Trapped? Here’s How A Fellow Traveller Is...
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. In my 36 years of...
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IFS Officer & 2K Villagers are Turning Barren Land into World’s Largest Tulip...
With the Panchachuli peaks, a group of five snow-capped Himalayan mountains, situated at the eastern end of the Kumaon region providing the ideal backdrop, the picturesque township of Munsiyari in...
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IFS Officer Helps Solve Man-Elephant Conflict, Villagers Farm Again After 6...
Nirmala Sawant, the gram pradhan of Gaindakhali, a village in Uttarakhand’s Champawat district, has long held severe concerns about the growing incidence of human-animal conflict in the area. Her fears...
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Saving Lives For 36 Years, This ‘Yamraj’ Has Ferried 1000s Across Flooded...
A couple of years ago, a group of travellers wanted to travel across the Bangapani region in Uttarakhand’s Pithoragarh district. However, due to heavy rains, a bridge over the stream that connected...
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How to Build a Rainwater Harvesting System: Retd Colonel Shares Low-Cost Method
Originally from Bengaluru, Retired Col Nandu Kumar was posted in several regions across the country while he was serving in the Indian Territorial Army for over 25 years, where he was well recognised...
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Meet the Man Teaching Farmers How to Grow 12 Crops a Year to Defy Droughts &...
Kheti par kiski maar? Jungli janwar, mausam aur sarkar. Throughout the 1980s, this thought-provoking slogan resonated with farmers across Uttarakhand in the aftermath of the green revolution. Led by...
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Trying to Save Apple Orchard, Uttarakhand Man Grows World’s Tallest Coriander...
How many times have you carefully looked at the green shade of coriander or felt its texture? Because it is such a universal ingredient in food dishes and readily available, this versatile herb cum...
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Mom’s Death Pushes Nainital Man to Quit Lecturer Job, Plant 12000 Trees
Some nature lovers are often considered crazy for their relentless passion to conserve and protect the environment. While nature conservation might be a weekend hobby for some, there are others who...
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Meet the Women IAS & IPS Officers Who Led the Rescue Operations in Chamoli
“On 7 February 2021, I got news of a disaster having occurred in Chamoli. I was in a town called Gopeshwar, Uttarakhand and could rush to the site immediately. I knew that Chamoli is a disaster-prone...
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This Ex-Air Force Pilot Is The Sole Guardian Of A 140-Acre Ecosystem Atop A...
At 78, Steve Lall is as exuberant as one could be. As I connect with him via a short video call, I’m greeted by a vibrant smile and a booming, “Hello!” But our call is cut short by a rocky internet...
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We Left Our City Life & Moved To The Mountains. It’s Definitely not all Rosy
In mid-2000, Lovepreet Kumar was yearning for open roads sans traffic jams, rickety cycling trips, unadulterated food, pollution-free air, a meditative experience and a house in the hills. He was a...
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IIT Kanpur Startup’s Advanced Drones’ Surveillance Were a Boon in The...
On 7 February 2021, Uttarakhand suffered a devastating natural disaster when a portion of a glacier broke off in Joshimath, Chamoli district, causing a glacial lake outburst flood, according to the...
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Dehradun Shop Owner Toils for 30 Years, Singlehandedly Revives Dead Spring
As a child, Jagdish Kudiyal from Sirkot village of Dehradun always saw a spring flowing along with his ancestral fields and tea gardens. Surrounded by dense greenery, the spring, locally called gadera,...
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‘I Saw My Mom Toil For Our Family’: Forest Officer Helps Rural Women Earn 10...
In Uttarakhand’s Bandasari village, Nirmala Devi Pawar, along with 10 other women, produces, packages, and sells organic wheat flour, gram, pulses, rhododendron juice and other products. “We collect...
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Scientist Helps 50000 Farmers Switch To ‘Madagascar Method’, Increase Yield...
In Madhya Pradesh’s Shahpur Khurd village, Kavita Singh is busy cutting her freshly harvested sikiya variety of rice, which stands tall at 1.5 metres on her three-acre field. Judging from the...
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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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She Quit City Life For An Organic Farm In Uttarakhand That Saves 2 Lakh...
To escape a hectic city life, full of woes and stress, and relocate to a quiet abode in the hills might very well be every urban dweller’s dream today. But how do you shift to an organic way of life in...
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Woman Quits Job, Helps Over 2,000 Himalayan Farmers Increase Earnings...
Growing up amid the hills of Garhwal, Uttarakhand, Babita Bhatt’s childhood had made her privy to the rich crop diversity of the Himalayas. Eating delicious and organic food was a daily affair she had...
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Delhi Couple Quit City Life To Build a Dreamy Green Homestay That’ll Last 100...
Nestled in the lap of Kumaon foothills in Uttarakhand’s Faguniakhet region, at a height of 5,000 feet, the picturesque location of Fagunia Farmstay looks like a scene straight out of a movie. The...
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After Losing Job To COVID, Couple Grows Mushrooms In Huts, Earns Rs 2.5...
In June 2020, Satinder Singh Rawat moved from Dubai to Noida after losing his job as a retail operations manager due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 46-year-old had been working in the Gulf for 15 years...
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How an IFS Officer Helped Rudraprayag Harvest Over 10 Million Litres of...
Located in the middle Himalayan belt of Uttarakhand, the forests of Rudraprayag district lie in altitudes ranging from around 800 metres to 3,000 metres above sea level. Nearly 70% of the forest,...
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Starting With Rs 10,000, Uttarakhand Lad Takes Himshakti ‘Pahadi Namak’ to...
Didsari, a tiny village in Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi district, is known for its distinctive seasoned salts, where almost every household in the village prepares its own salts. It is a very ancient...
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Techie Quits Job to Move to the Himalayas, Helps 200 Women in 40 Villages...
In 2006, Bengaluru-based Pratibha Krishnaiah graduated with a degree in computer science. She got a corporate job, which she worked over the next eight years. She says the salary was good, she was...
View ArticleDefying Disapproval, Tehri’s Kiwi Queen Reaps Sweet Success With Innovative...
Sita Devi of Tehri District in Uttarakhand, is a prime example of the sheer grit and perseverance with which women of the hills safeguard their land and livelihood in the mountains. Having faced...
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When The Internet Couldn’t Reach, This Travelling Teacher Turned The Entire...
As the COVID-19 pandemic wreaks havoc on the world, stories of frontline warriors who have gone above and beyond to bring hope in this time of crisis come to light. One such warrior in the field of...
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What My 6-YO Daughter & I Learnt on Our 42 Day Road Trip From Gujarat to...
Travelling and meeting people from different cultural spaces, developing relationships and remaining close to the five elements is our tool for unlearning and keeping Navyaa, our 6-year-old daughter,...
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What Connects Hitler & Tipu Sultan? This Unique Eco-Friendly ‘Retreat’ in Kumaon
Edward James Corbett paints a picturesque landscape of Uttarakhand’s Kumaon region in a book. He describes a place from where Nainital, Bhimtal and Sattal lake can be seen from atop a hill. The book...
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25-YO Earns Rs 20k/Month With Mushroom Farming, Inspires 100s Of Women to Follow
How do you sell mushrooms to a community that believes they are poisonous? At 22, Babita Rawat from Uttarakhand’s Umeral village, was faced with a similar question. For her, the only motive to start...
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Uttarakhand IAS Officer Helps 4.5 Lakh Farmers With Projects Worth Over Rs...
Dr R Meenakshi Sundaram is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer who holds several portfolios in Uttarakhand and he says, “It is my dream to transform the economy of the state.” It is perhaps...
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Science Says Rhododendron Helps Manage Diabetes & Asthma; 3 Recipes With the...
When environmentalist and Padma Shri winner Dr Anil Joshi, and his team, visited Uttarakhand’s Ramadi and Pulinda villages, they came across a unique dish for the first time. Dark pink in colour and...
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We Left Our 9-5 City Jobs to Adopt a Farming Life in the Hills: What We Learnt
Everyone dreams of moving to the hills and living a quaint life. Preeti and Lovepreet made this dream a reality. In 2012, the couple left behind the city life to move to the village of Ramgarh in...
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Delhi Professors With Unique Vision Turn Traditional Uttarakhand Houses into...
A group of professors from Delhi are on a mission to promote sustainable tourism and bring more livelihood options to the villages in Uttarakhand. Dr Nirmal Kumar along with a team of professors from...
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They Said ‘Get Married’, but Mountaineer Fought Village To Scale Everest &...
Feature image: Twitter For the remote and otherwise unknown village of Lothru, Uttarkashi, June brought in a momentous occasion the region had not seen before — a young woman by the name of Savita...
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IFS Officer Is On a Mission to Save Uttarakhand’s Endangered Plants; What...
As dusk sets, anyone who stops by the research wing of the forest department in Uttarakhand’s Haldwani looking for IFS officer Sanjeev Chaturvedi, won’t find him there. Instead, the officer can be...
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MBA Couple Quit Corporate Life to ‘Move to The Hills’, Start Dreamy Organic...
As the sun beat down on Delhi’s Barapullah flyover in 2017, a couple found themselves caught in a moment of decisive clarity. Amit, an employee at HDFC AMC, confided in his wife Shipra, an advertising...
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India’s Top 10 Sustainable Homestays for Peaceful Getaways & Dreamy Vacations
As 2024 draws to a close, sustainable travel has firmly established itself as the mantra of modern globetrotters, with homestays at the heart of this green movement. From misty hills to sprawling tea...
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How 2 Brothers Built a Rs 25 Lakh Mushroom Farming Business in Uttarakhand
In 2017, Sushant Uniyal, a media student from Delhi, made a bold decision — he left his private-sector job and returned to his home in Uttarakhand. “My brother came up with the idea that we should go...
View ArticleBrave Uttarakhand Schoolgirls Risk Their Lives Daily on Rope Trolley To Reach...
How far would you go to get an education? Would you walk miles in the scorching sun or risk your safety crossing rivers? For many, education is just a short drive away, but for some, the journey...
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5 Uttarakhand Treks That Offer Peace, Solitude & Spectacular Views
As the summer sun begins to blaze across the plains, mountain lovers know it’s time to head north, where snow-fed rivers, alpine meadows, and glacier-kissed trails await. Uttarakhand, with its...
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The Untold Story of a Trans Forest Guard in Uttarakhand — Through the Eyes of...
“Main bhi toh insaan hoon!Mere andar bhi toh dil hai na…”“Main khushi khushi jeena chahti hoon…” (“I’m a human being too — I have a heart that feels, just like anyone else.”“I want to live… and live...
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