On a sunny afternoon in Trichy, Tamil Nadu, a group of students gathers around a shallow water body, their eyes fixed on a thick green mat floating on the surface. At first glance, it looks serene — glossy leaves, purple flowers, and dragonflies weaving through the stalks. But for 25-year-old ecologist Sushmita Krishnan, this is…
A success story in Maharashtra In 2013, Dr Singh was tasked with rejuvenating 10 hectares of fly-ash-laden wasteland in Ubagi and Khapari villages, 24 km from Nagpur. Within two years, the land began to recover, and by the fourth year, it was ready for crop cultivation again. Source link
Here’s the irony: Bastar’s forests are a goldmine of tamarind, mahua, custard apple, jamun, and more. Mahua, for example, is called the “Tree of Life” — every part of it feeds, heals, or sustains. But the women who collected it stayed trapped in poverty. Source link
Gyanlata Hemrom, a 40-year-old farmer and entrepreneur from Barkuli village in Khunti district, Jharkhand, remembers a time when she and her family lived in a rundown house, struggling to make ends meet. She often had to work on other people’s farms, while her elder brother would often leave their village to find work elsewhere. During…
“There is something different in the air now,” says Inderjit Singh, a 79-year-old farmer from Rajinder Nagar in Punjab’s Fatehgarh Sahib district. “It feels cleaner. Birds sing all day, and when I walk through the trees I planted, it feels like a forest that belongs to all of us.” His voice carries the pride of…
