Recently held National Symposium on Vulture Conservation has proposed a call-to-action-statement to protect the vultures in the continent Can a decline in bird population cause an increase in human death? Yes! It is very much possible and has happened. In…
On Vadodara’s Chhani-Sama canal road, under the canopies of two mango trees and one neem tree, a sugarcane juice extractor is standing. It is wooden but mechanical. A few feet away on footpath, Laxman Dhale (54) and his wife Manda…
In the month of ‘Chaitra’- first month of Hindu calendar, thousands of devotees circumambulate the patch of river Narmada between Rampura and Tilakwada village in Narmada district of Gujarat. The walking pilgrimage is called, “Uttarvahini Narmada Parikrama”. Narmada, fifth largest…
The Good Harvest School This all girls, English-medium, Agri based school in ‘Paschim Gaon’ village, some 150 km from Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh is sowing the seeds of the transformation in rural education. Meet the Nath duo, chasing transformation “Inner”…
In the August of 2020, the day before the Independence Day of India, I witnessed a unique volunteering activity in Vadodara. Streets were empty; vehicles were still resting, birds were singing, trees were swaying that cloudy morning. It was a…
Around 30 children have gathered in front of a laptop placed in a small classroom of a government primary school in Raipur village of Chhota Udepur district in Gujarat. A team of researchers from WCB Research Foundation (WCB) would first…