Farmers from USA to India adapt to the global challenge of climate change. Renee Hickman with Anna Kohls from Missouri and Tanushree Sen from West Bengal report
Yoga reflects flow of cultures East and West
http://www.urbanbreathyoga.com/Yoga reflects a reality of globalization — the exchange of ideas that shapes cultures across our connected world, now more than ever. Jaime Dunaway and Emma Beyer from USA and Liza Gomes from India report ahead of World Yoga Day on June 21
The marathon culture has really caught on in India with the growing need and awareness among youngters to stay fit. It has also become a potent tool for raising funds for charity. After attending a Marathon in Bengaluru, Debayani Bose gives a lowdown about the social impact of such runs both in terms of staying fit, creating awareness for a cause and raising funds for charity
Motherhood Can Wait, Education Cannot
Education can significantly play the role of a game-changer in India when it comes to adolescent girls getting married off and having children before they are prepared, both physically and mentally.
Many women in America or other western countries are choosing out-of-hospital childbirth, much to the dismay of insurance companies. In less developed countries such as India, out-of-hospital births are usually not a choice but a necessity. But even in that country, some upper-class women are joining the natural birth trend.
Internet Saathi: A friend in need
The Internet has become a part of life for a huge section of Indian population. However, its use is largely confined to urban or semi-urban areas. The ‘Internet Saathi’ programme is different. It teaches rural women to use and benefit from the Internet, writes New York based Michael Gallant
The emerald landscape of tea gardens in Assam hide a healthcare lacunae among its women workers whose nimble fingers pluck the two leaves and a bud, invaluable to the industry. Activists from the community are now trying to change their condition. Ranjita Biswas reports from Sonitpur district on the north bank of the Brahmaputra
Music is high on the country’s cultural agenda but Western Classical music has somehow missed the bus in the current scenario. Surangama Guha reports
A publishing company run entirely by women
Though the publishing industry is dominated by men, there is one leading publishing company in India run entirely by young women.
Water tanks for thirsty animals
Animal activists in Rajasthan’s Sirohi district have launched a unique campaign to provide water through tankers to wildlife animals to tide over acute water shortage in its forests. But conservationists say there is no need to intervene in these natural processes of variations in mortality, reports Rakhee Roytalukdar
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The Magic Diary: How an Indian journalist brings storytellers of world together
New Delhi, Mar 31 (IBNS) They had not met each other before and knew little about each other’s culture when they started off. But soon, surprise was replaced with respect, impatience with empathy and the outcome: The Magic Diary.
Aparna Sen’s new film Sonata, will be releasing any time now. It is adapted from an English play by noted Marathi playwright Mahesh Elkunchwar in 2000 whose plays and writings have been made into films. Sonata makes a strong point about female bonding between and among women where language, culture, education and region do not count. Shoma A. Chatterji gives a ring-side view into her work
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Bhagoriya marks festivity of holi in tribal parts of Madhya Pradesh
It was before the beginning of holi, but in Alirajpur in Madhya Pradesh, it's Bhagoriya festivity which marks the celebration. It starts almost fortnight or ten days before holi, after harvesting. It is held in the villages on various market (Haat) days.
Women who walk the extra mile in rural India
Child Rights and You (CRY) this Women’s Day (Mar 8) salutes unsung women who are working hard to invest their time and efforts in the present of our children, so that their future turns out brighter!
Kolkata, Mar 2 (Just Earth News): Kolkata-based Calcutta Rescue at the recent screening of a new award-winning film about Kolkata’s pavement doctor, Jack Preger, has urged all to come forward and donate generously for the cause of the poor and needy in the eastern city for whom the now octogenarian British doctor devoted his life.