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IAS Officer Rescues 50 Girls Who Were Being Sexually Abused in Tamil Nadu...
Sexually abused and their complaints hushed, 50 girls were kept in a pitiable condition in a missionary home in Tamil Nadu. Thanks to the efforts of an IAS officer, they have finally been rescued. KS...
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Switch to This Search Engine and You Can Help Bring Light to 100 TN Villages!
You can have all the wires, transformers and light bulbs in the world. But if you are ‘energy poor’, it is all pretty useless. Welcome to a little-noticed, but crippling, issue plaguing Indian...
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Tribute: ‘Nel’ Jayaraman, The Crusader Who Revived 170+ Native Paddy Varieties!
In the early hours of Thursday, India lost KR Jayaraman, one of the country’s foremost traditional seed conservationists, to cancer. Jayaraman’s lifelong crusade to protect native paddy varieties is so...
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Traditional ‘Wonder Grass’ Helps TN Farmer Earn Rs 1.5 Lakh Profit per Acre...
C Pandian, a farmer from the Sivaganga district in Tamil Nadu, walks through his 10-acre land, all covered in grass. This 5-feet-tall Vetiver grass that spans all over his farm will fetch him profits...
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Chennai Woman’s Heartwarming Gesture for Tired Cab Driver Will Make Your Day!
Seemingly small gestures go a long way in changing someone’s life. But for Aarti Madhusudan, a resident of Chennai, such gestures are just a way to improve herself as a person. Booking a hotel room for...
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US Teen Spends $3000 Award Money To Light Up Grandpa’s Govt School in TN Town!
Last month, Krithik Ramesh, a 16-year-old boy of Indian origin who currently resides in Denver, decided to visit India. One of the places that he really wanted to visit was the government school at...
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This ‘People’s Collector’ From TN Is Considered a Guardian Angel During...
Fourteen years ago, the Indian subcontinent was ravaged by a gigantic tsunami that claimed thousands of lives and left behind a massive scale of destruction. In times like these, it is often the quick...
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Real Life ‘Sui-Dhaaga’: This ‘Made in India’ Couple Will Give You...
In the southern parts of this country, especially during a festival, it is impossible to miss the huge bamboo frames that dot most roads and streets – depicting gods, animals, birds and even...
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Boosting Productivity & Saving Dying Plants: IFoS Officer Builds App to Aid...
For most of us who have lived in the greener parts of India, identifying a few trees and plants might be easy, and yet, when we start to think about it, we hardly know anything about them. The problem...
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Food Secrets: This Humble Man Is the Brew Master Behind Coimbatore’s Unique...
If you are a tea lover visiting Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, B Manickam’s unique layered tea is a must-have. Even if you not that big a fan of tea, you will love this cuppa for its sheer aesthetics and...
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Ditch Your Plastic Straws, TN Coconut Vendors Have The Perfect, Green...
January 1, 2019, marked a step in the sustainable direction for Tamil Nadu, as a state-wide plastic ban came into effect. While this ban has certainly struck down heavily on manufacturers and dealers,...
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This Village With an Eye Donor in Every Home is an Example For All of India
India is truly unique in its diversity, and its villages exemplify this fact. It is possibly the only country in this world where you will find a village where no one wears footwear, or one that...
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Exclusive: Retired TN Banker Sells Home to Turn Barren Land into Model...
When most people around him were selling their land to invest in homes and migrate to cities, 63-year-old Senthamil Selvan made a different choice. The banker with an illustrious 36-year-old career...
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Brutally Beaten Up, Comatose Hyena Gets a New Life Thanks to This Kind Vet &...
In recent years, we have read about several instances where wild animals met a brutal end after straying into a human settlement. A similar incident occurred in October 2017, when a striped hyena...
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TN Village Saw 83 Suicides Before This Teacher Came. Today, It Has None!
Did you know that Tamil Nadu has the third worst rate of female suicide in the world? Shocking isn’t it? Not for the people of this small village, where suicide was a common affair. The issue was so...
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#UPSCSimplified: IAS Topper K Vijaykarthikeyan Shares How to Tackle Negative...
With over 10 lakh applicants each year, and only 1,000 selections – the UPSC exams can seem like an insurmountable hurdle. But it can be crossed! In ‘UPSC Simplified’, The Better India catches up with...
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Becoming a Fakir: How Madurai Inspired Mahatma Gandhi’s Iconic Loincloth Attire
“All the alterations I have made in my course of life have been affected by momentous occasions, and they have been made after such a deep deliberation that I have hardly had to regret them.” -Mahatma...
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TN Villagers, Activists Win Freedom for Wild Elephant; Help Him Journey Back...
To give him his due, it wasn’t really Chinnathambi’s intention to become an internet rage. The poor 25-year-old was only trying to maneuver his portly frame through the narrow alleyways of a village...
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How a Doctors’ Collective in TN Is Challenging Politics & Discrimination in...
When Dr Mari Raj was studying for his post-graduate degree in Ahmedabad, he faced severe caste discrimination. He was compelled to serve tea to certain students and teachers, made to stand outside...
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Not Just a Humble Hut: TN Org Shows How Mud Houses Can Be Viable in Cities Too!
Jayan is an organic farmer in the Attapadi village of Kerala. You can see him toiling away in his field, using natural fertilisers and pesticides to nurture his crops. His green, chemical-free field is...
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