By painting his body and donning different ‘Vesha’ during the grand celebration of Sri Krishna Janmashtami for the last four years, Ravi Katapady has been collecting money for underprivileged children in need of corrective surgery in Udupi.
Sudhakara and Harinakshi’s wedding ceremony was held at Thumbe Karkera Auditorium in Uchila, where extra care was taken to avoid anything made of plastic.
A village with one foot in the Vedic times and another in the 21st century, Mattur is one of the very few places in the world where residents still converse in the classical language of Sanskrit.
A woman of limited means living on a pension in a remote village in Karanataka, used up her savings to dig a well so several households would have water to drink.
NMAMIT, in Nitte, near Udupi, is becoming self-reliant. The college collects used cooking oil from hotels, converts it into bio-diesel, and uses it as fuel for their buses and vehicles.