SEARCH RESULT

Total Matching Records found : 111

The truth that gets filtered out in the business of water -Sudhirendar Sharma

-The Hindu The demand for a reverse osmosis water filter device has been growing in my household. ‘Has our existing water filter stopped being friendly?’ has been my consistent query. ‘It is time we got a new one’ has been the standard response. Considered to be one of that generation to whom the ‘utility’ of a product carries a lot of meaning, listing the virtues of new technology has often been...

More »

Adoption plan: choose child, then meet -Ananya Sengupta

-The Telegraph New Delhi: Prospective parents looking to adopt might in future have to choose the child they want as their own by going through photographs, with the government planning to end the practice of allowing them to meet several children before they take one home. Under existing rules, prospective parents can meet at least three children - referred by an adoption agency - before they take a decision. Draft guidelines the women...

More »

Farmers star in their own films -Tomojit Basu

-The Hindu Business Line Instructional videos made by, and for the agricultural community Treatment of paddy seeds and scientific application of fungicide in Odisha, the creation of an ‘Azolla’ mother pit in Andhra Pradesh, insights into mint cultivation in Uttar Pradesh, and natural remedies for diarrhoea in cattle in Karnataka. You learn about all these and more from the nearly 4,000 videos produced by Digital Green, a seven-year-old development venture that is...

More »

Cookstoves and the climate -Mridula Ramesh

-The Hindu A promising area of change for the better In the last article, we considered the climate impact of India’s love for milk (short summary: not good). This time we will consider another aspect of our food: how we cook it. Most readers of this newspaper will perhaps not have more than the slightest acquaintance with wood-fired stoves. Most of us are still wondering whether or not to voluntarily give up...

More »

Aadhaar and Brazil soothe French heartache -KM Rakesh

-The Telegraph Bangalore: Six years ago, a 16-year-old Revanna M had missed a chance to travel to France for football training because, as an orphan, he didn't have the documents to obtain a passport. Memories of that heartbreak returned to haunt him last summer when he was chosen by an NGO as one of six underprivileged youths to visit Brazil during the football World Cup. Again, a passport seemed elusive for Revanna,...

More »

Video Archives

Archives

share on Facebook
Twitter
RSS
Feedback
Read Later

Contact Form

Please enter security code
      Close