Nath competed with over 20 innovators at the two-day 'Innovation Festival' in Guwahati, held by Indian Council for Science Museum in association with the National Innovation Foundation.
Mohanraj remembers sitting next to his mother’s lifeless body with his 14 -year-old brother Velmurugan begging people to help them cremate their mother. They didn’t have the resources to give their mother a dignified end.
Though they have so much going for them; good fresh unpolluted air, chemical-free produce year long, and a higher quality of life, they seemed to take great pride in telling people that their daughter would be marrying a city dweller.
Superintendent of Police (Rural) Uday Shankar said leaders from both communities took the initiative, after a meeting in which the issue was discussed threadbare.
Poi is located in the Sahyadri mountain range, situated a few kilometres away from a perennial but small river Barvi. A river the locals used to change their fate.