“A tree branch came out of nowhere and hit our main door, leaving a huge crack in the sturdy sagwan wood. It almost felt like there is no end to the night,” grandma recollects.
Most soaps that are available in the market are heavily concentrated with chemicals like parabens, surfactants, triclosan, petrochemicals, preservatives and sulphates which are not good for your skin! But Rakhi has the perfect solution!
“I would learn from everywhere. I would also speak to clients and they gave me a lot of information on what they used locally here. That is when I also started incorporating ingredients like aloe vera and curry leaves,” says Bindu.
Drought is a severe problem for large swathes of India, and despite existing mechanisms and machinery to tackle its effects, it continues to be a grave problem, especially in rural India. Yashaswini Mittal explores the recent Supreme Court directives on Drought Management and how they’ll help India tackle drought in the future.
A Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM), who thought on his feet and acted quickly, was able to save hundreds of villagers from drowning in the Balia district of UP.
Tamil Nadu is facing the heaviest rainfall in over 100 years, and it has been raining continuously in Chennai and some neighbouring regions since Monday this week. In such a situation of distress, this is how people in the city are helping each other out in every possible way.