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Despite Earning Rs 750/Day, Tamil Nadu Welder Serves Meals At Rs 5 To 400...
The nation-wide lockdown, imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, affected people across India differently. Some took it as a time to learn a new skill, and some experimented with and upgraded their...
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600 Free Lessons & 24,000 Kgs Waste Cleared: TN Surf School Goes Beyond Beach...
It’s the year 2011. The big waves lashing against Kovalam beach, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, have fishers casting their nets for a fresh catch. Nearer the coast, rather unexpectedly, a couple of teenagers and...
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Living on Streets to Playing For India Abroad: Homeless Girl Writes Her Own...
For soccer player Sangeetha Sekar, taking part in the Homeless World Cup in Scotland (2016) meant swapping her old and worn-out clothes with a brand new shining blue jersey. Swanky sneakers took the...
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How To: 71-YO’s Hack of Using Greywater to Flush Toilets Is Simple Yet Brilliant
The World Health Organisation (WHO) and several health experts maintain that washing hands with soap and water is the best way to prevent the transmission of COVID-19. According to WHO guidelines, a...
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Former TN Child Labourer Earns His PhD and Educates Kids of a Deprived Tribe
On 30 March, Dhamodharan Muniyan, a 41-year-old former child labourer from the Adi Dravidar Scheduled Caste community, defended his PhD thesis on improving the learning outcomes of children from the...
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Tamil Artist Uses Kolam to Transform Couple’s Home, Paints 55 Panels in a Week
In southern India, it’s common to see women drawing intricate patterns or kolams every morning just outside their front door. The kolam is drawn at the threshold of one’s home using rice flour – which...
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TN Forest Officer Protects 100-Acre of Mangroves, 40000 Turtles & More, Wins...
Ramanathapuram Forest Range Officer S Sathish is a local hero, known for his stellar efforts in environmental conservation. Whether it’s bringing down the organised crime of poaching, saving the Olive...
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IIT-Madras Team Innovates Solution To Extract 90% Water From Urine & Save...
In 2018, professors and students of IIT-Madras were gearing up to compete in a competition where the team had to identify various environmental issues and brainstorm finding sustainable solutions for...
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Brother’s Death Inspires TN Man To Offer Free Ambulance, Meals In Remote Areas
In 2008, Durai Prithviraj (35), a resident of Virudhunagar district in Tamil Nadu, found himself in dire need of an ambulance. His younger brother had met with an accident, 20 km away from his home,...
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To Fight Taboos Around Breastfeeding, Single Mom Encourages 300+ Mothers To...
After delivering her second born, Coimbatore-based Dr M Aishwarya slipped into postpartum depression. Having recently separated from her husband, she was now a single parent to a 3.5-year-old daughter...
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Coimbatore Couple Sells Snacks For Rs 5 To Rural Groups; Earns Rs 35 Cr/Year
IIn his book ‘The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid’ (2004), C K Prahalad, a professor at the University of Michigan’s business school, talks about giving purchasing power to marginalised...
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TN Fisherman Vlogger’s Brilliant Videos Show Unseen Side of Fishing to 4 Lakh...
Catching fish using the precision of arrows, walking on sea beds with aluminium plates as shoes, and diving 150 ft underwater with no oxygen cylinders – these are just some of the traditional fishing...
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TN Poachers Turn Conservators, Increase Slender Loris Population by 5 Times
This article is a part of The Better India’s series to highlight the work of those who have dedicated their lives to saving some of the most endangered species of plants and animals in India. This...
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From Tiny Pushcart To 200 Outlets: The Story Of Madurai’s Iconic Jigarthanda...
During a casual conversation with my colleagues, I made the blasphemous confession that I didn’t know what ‘Jigarthanda’ is. This invited stern looks, and passionate explanations about the milk-based...
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TN Couple Share How to ‘Do-Nothing’ on a Farm, While Still Earning Rs...
It was a March afternoon when a young couple in a village of Tamil Nadu was busy caressing plants at its farm. The word which comes to mind after seeing their farm is ‘jungle’. When we met the couple,...
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Chennai Community Grow 25 Miyawaki Forests Across Tamil Nadu, Raise 65,000 Trees
Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki envisaged the concept of Miyawaki forests in the 1980s. The technique involves growing a dense forest in a small area with shrubs, trees and canopies. The densely...
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Even Big Companies Invite This Chennai Autodriver To Teach Them Customer Service
Chennai-based Annudarai may not have finished Class 12, but his extensive knowledge can leave you stumped. He can talk to you about anything — startups, innovations, viral marketing gimmicks, the...
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How Scientists & IITians are Preventing an Island from Drowning off the TN Coast
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the leading international body assessing climate change, predicts that sea levels would increase by 1.35 metres by 2100, drowning small islands in...
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Mumbai Woman Moves to Kodaikanal, Grows Peru’s Rare Tree Tomatoes In Her...
We know that tomatoes grow on shrubs and sometimes creepers. But did you know that they grow on trees as well? Known as Tamarillo or the Naga Tree Tomato in India, this variety resembles a tomato...
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Monitor Blood Sugar Through Sweat, Using PhD Scholar’s Biodegradeable Skin Patch
In India, 77 million people suffer from diabetes, which is the second-highest in the world. It is recommended that such patients wake up and test their blood sugar levels using a glucometer every day....
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