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Traditional Odisha Wedding Eliminates Plastic for Guests

Four hundred wedding guests in Bhubaneswar recently celebrated a marriage ceremony that produced virtually no plastic waste. The achievement came without abandoning the cultural...

Sambalpur Women Convert Daily Waste Into Municipal Revenue

A city of roughly half a million people in western Odisha has found an unlikely solution to one of urban India's oldest headaches, and...

Suman Kalyanpur (1937–2026) RIP

The Other Voice of Our Golden Age Obituary On 31 May 2026, in a modest Mumbai home far from the arc-lights...

Padma Shri Awardee Devaki Amma: The Woman Who Grew Forests  

She was 48 years old when an accident left her bedridden. After she recovered, she was unable to continue...

Badi Aayi Patrakar: The story of the Women behind Khabar Lahariya 

They were told, for most of their lives, that their opinion did not matter. Then, they started a newspaper....

India’s Pink-Saree School for Grandmothers 

By the time most women in a Thane village had grandchildren old enough to carry school bags, they had...

Indian Cheese on the Global Map 

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi posted about Indian cheese on social media, most Indians stopped scrolling. Four varieties of...

40-year-old’s quest to Conquer Antarctica’s Highest Peak 

At 40, most people settle into comfortable routines. Not Kavita Chand. She planted the Indian flag atop Mount Vinson,...