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Helpline, masks, ration kits from Pardada Pardadi
In less than a week after the lockdown was imposed, the Pardada Pardadi Educational Society (PPES) ...
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In Ludhiana, clean-up with scrutiny by residents
After getting the Punjab government to allocate funds for the cleaning up of the Buddha ...
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When a family meets: A play on relationships
A family drama simply entertains but The Gathered Leaves is not that kind of play. ...
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Study abroad but stay at home for a while
Universities and schools were the first to shut down when the coronavirus began spreading rapidly ...
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A million wells for Bengaluru
Rainbow Drive, a housing colony on Sarjapur Road, has never known a water shortage. It ...
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With dream dam farmers show what is possible
A check dam built by farmers across the Kodungai river has caught the attention of ...
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Can Himachal apples survive the big fall?
Five years ago young apple growers, many of whom had given up jobs to return to ...
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Festivals, fairs and rituals
India’s fascinating world of fairs, festivals and rituals came alive at an exhibition organised by ...
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It is important to help the poor access their rights
Are advocacy, yatras, social audit and online services sufficient to enable the rural poor to ...
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Sanitation economy is on the rise with jobs, tech
Has the world ceded to sanitation being costly and difficult, a problem we must solve ...
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Chanderi times
A sari mela, organised by Dastkar, brought weavers from all over India to Delhi. Among ...
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Restaurants brace for change, seek govt help
In 2018, Anusha Pinto and Vijay Giri started Fullyfilled, a small restaurant serving shawarmas and momos ...
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Getting everyone into Delhi's master plan
City planning is invariably decided by faceless government agencies. But in Delhi a coalition of ...
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Uncivil Delhi: Cars, cows and rickshaws
How far has green activism by Delhi’s middle class benefited the city? It hasn’t resolved a ...
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Zilla man, students revive check dams
For the first time in decades this February, Sundara Gowda, a 55-year-old farmer in the ...
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Indraani Singh
In 1995 when Indraani Singh became India’s first female pilot to be Commander of an ...
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Landfills don't work, learn to segregate garbage
The thought of an Indian city most often throws up images of teeming millions, traffic ...
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Engineer-ecologist: Tribute to Dhrubajyoti Ghosh
In the many years that the Leftist parties governed West Bengal, they paid little attention ...
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Ant carries its lockdown load in Assam areas
The lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus comes with multiple challenges, but if ...
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Chanthaburi heritage and Pattaya’s 3D art
The Indian tourist has evolved and matured. When destination fatigue sets in, Indian tourists scout for ...
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JNU celebrates street theatre with Sahmat
Protesters became performers on 12 April, National Street Theatre Day, at Jawaharlal Nehru University’s (JNU) ...
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Development is the target, says Tata Steel’s Sourav Roy
It is five years since Jamshedpur began hosting Samvaad, an event at which tribal people ...
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Inventions for disability get design awards
The winners of this year’s NCPEDP-Mphasis Universal Design Awards created devices or services that were ...
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Longer hours, lower wages, less security, fewer women
Job creation was on the agenda of the BJP government when it came to power ...
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Burhan Wani and the flashpoint in Kashmir
The protests and violence that have followed the killing of Burhan Muzaffar Wani, 20, have ...
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For regular periods
Menstruation is controlled and triggered by signals sent by hormones produced in the body, namely ...
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The right to know
This story appeared in Civil Society's September 2003 edition. Till two years ago, what Sundernagari knew ...
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Father says son killed for just owning a horse
Since his childhood, 21-year-old Pradip Rathod, a Dalit from Timbi village in Bhavnagar district, always ...
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Talking to young men about women
TWenty-three-year-old Gaurav Tripathi comes from a large, conservative joint family headed by his paternal grandfather ...
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Importance of being AAP and earnest
It was clear to anyone moving around a bit in Delhi before the elections that ...
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