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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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9 Lessons From Anand Mahindra, Who Continues His Grandfather’s...
This article is part of The Better India series ‘Lessons from India’s Legends’. Stay tuned for more stories on India’s most exemplary personalities and the lessons we can learn from their body of work....
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IIT Prof Helps Prove Indian Origins Of When Whales Were Cat-Sized & Walked On...
Millions of years ago, as the isolated landmass drifted across the Tethys Ocean, a tiny, four-legged deer-like creature traversed the remotest corners of the Indian subcontinent. Today, a descendant of...
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How The ‘Maharajah of Magic’ Hypnotised All of UK & Japan With a Sensational...
Decades ago, when author and diplomat John Zubrzycki was working in India, he came across the famous ‘Hindu basket trick’ at a crowded railway station. In this trick, a young boy or girl is put inside...
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After Losing Vision, Woman Starts Online Radio To Help 10K Diff-Abled Find...
Manish Agarwal has been suffering from eyesight issues due to a retina deformity since he was a child. During his growing years, his dependence on glasses increased, and as he reached Class X, the...
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How a Nun & Lots of Leftover Egg Yolks Led to Bebinca, the ‘Queen of Goan...
If one had to apply the viral social media trend #TheTellMeChallenge, to talk about Goa without mentioning ‘Goa’, it is no doubt that one would think to talk about Bebinca. This ghee-lathered sweetmeat...
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COVID-19: How ‘Oxygen-at-Home’ via Concentrators Can Be a Life Saver
On April 19, Nagpur-based Simran Nashine logged into her Twitter account to seek help for 41-year-old Girish Kesai, a COVID-19 patient. His oxygen saturation levels had dropped to 82%. It had been well...
View ArticleCOVID-19: Caring For A Person With Disability? Here’s What You Need to Know
Physical distancing is a privilege not many of us realise, especially for those who rely on others for basics such as taking a bath, getting dressed, going to the washroom, and eating. Among the many...
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With 1000 Recipes, India’s ‘Pickle Queen’ Takes Our Culinary Wonders To The US
Earning the title of the ‘Pickle Queen of India’ is no easy feat. What earned Chennai-based Usha Prabakaran this title was Usha’s Pickle Digest, a laborious piece of work that took over 15 years to...
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I was Scammed & Paid Rs. 12,000 for Remdisivir. Here’s How You Can be Careful
On the night of 22 April, Sanchari Pal from Shimla plunged into a crisis that millions of Indians are struggling with today — to seek medical assistance to cure COVID-19. Her 69-year-old father,...
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How Did India Lose A Nuclear Device On A Glacier? Here’s The Nanda Devi...
Snow-capped mountain peaks where no one ever ventures, a secret government mission, dangerous nuclear devices and a disaster supposedly waiting to happen — the Nanda Devi mystery has all the makings of...
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This 100-Year-Old Shop Is The Last Kolkata Cafe To Still Brew Tea In Samovars
A Monday morning in B.B.D.Bagh, Kolkata’s commercial hub, is a riot. Also known as office para, the area is a picture of chaos, capturing the traffic-clogged streets swarmed with people, either...
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Why 100 Years Ago, Arthur Conan Doyle Formed An Unlikely Friendship With An...
The year was 1903, and the otherwise quiet village of Great Wyrley in Staffordshire county, England, was bogged down by a terrifying occurrence. A series of gruesome slashings of horses, cows and...
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Displaced By Partition, How A 19-YO Set Up Delhi’s Oldest & Favourite Kulfi...
Before the pandemic, at any time on any given day you would find lakhs of Delhiites on the streets of Karol Bagh, one of the city’s oldest and most popular destinations. Thousands of street vendors set...
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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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Why is Ivermectin, a Deworming Drug, Part of India’s COVID Protocol? Doctors...
The governments of Goa, Karnataka and Uttarakhand recently sanctioned the use of Ivermectin for COVID-19 treatment. The 12 mg drug has been enlisted by the Union Health Ministry, aiming to prevent the...
View ArticleFrom Filming Wildlife to Saving Nature: How a Bengaluru man Became an Earth...
Kalyan Varma is a Bengaluru based naturalist, environment conservationist, photographer and documentary filmmaker who has won many accolades from BBC, National Geographic and the Karnataka State Forest...
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A Soldier From 1857, How This Unknown Indian’s Head Ended Up In An English Pub
Dr Kim Ati Wagner, a Danish-British historian of colonial India, received a peculiar email sitting in his London office in 2014. It was from an old English couple who owned The Lord Clyde pub in Kent,...
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Kolkata Social Worker Helps 1600 Rural Women Enter Politics & Fight Violence
In West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, 27-year-old Sonali Bajkhan Pradhan spent most of her days confined to her home. She occasionally offered voluntary services in her local gram panchayat...
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Pt Ravi Shankar Held His 1st Western Performance In This Unknown Indian’s Centre
Perhaps one of the greatest unions in the history of music is that of Pandit Ravi Shankar and former Beatle George Harrison. Their meeting in 1966 birthed an instant yet unlikely connection and albums...
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