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A project between the students and a self-help group in Mangar village has led to Project Auric, a liquid detergent manufacturing unit run by the village women.

After a government school building was demolished in Punjab's Fatehpur Awana village, locals stepped forward to keep it up and running.

Talking about issues like menstruation, female hygiene, and other “taboo” topics can be particularly difficult in ultra-traditional and conservative settings in villages. Bhawna Khattar talks about a unique experience where the introduction of ‘safe spaces’ helped women in a small village in Rajasthan open up about these subjects.

Engineer and business graduate Devi Murthy identified growing difficulties faced by small-scale Indian farmers. With her farming equipment development company, Kamal Kisan, she began to customise her products to suit the needs of the small-time Indian farmer.

An engineer by profession, Ganpat Krishna Yadav could have held on to a lucrative job. Instead, he chose to set up an organic farm in Jaipur with the focused intention of providing employment opportunities to beggars.

The festival is open for everyone to perform, paint, sing, sculpt, click, sow, farm, cook, stay, learn, enjoy and collaborate to make it all the more meaningful.

Ibrahimpur village in Siddipet district of Telangana has become the first village in South India to go cashless by taking all its business transactions online.

"I wish there was a toilet in my house too. I am 16 years old now and I feel shy about going to the jungle."

Villagers in a remote hilly corner of Assam have decided not to wait for the government but build a road themselves this December.

Ashish and Ruta Kalawar left their well-paying jobs in England and returned to India to help empower the rural citizens of the country. Help them make their adopted village open-defecation free!