by Urmi Bhattacharjee | May 20, 2018 | Food, Home, News, Solar, Sustainability, Tech
The world’s first electronic solar public eToilet has been put up in Thiruvananthapuram, in Kerala. It generates power as well as fertilizer from the waste. The toilets have been set up in Pulluvila, a village in the Thiruvananthapuram district of Kerala. The village...
by Urmi Bhattacharjee | Mar 29, 2018 | Articles, Climate Change, News, Rivers, Sustainability
The Sardar Sarovar Dam in Gujarat is one of the largest dams in India across the Narmada river. The result of the Narmada Valley Project makes it the world’s second-largest concrete gravity dam. Every time the dam’s height is raised, people get displaced. Does...
by Urmi Bhattacharjee | Mar 26, 2018 | Health and Fitness, Home, News, Wildlife
A couple of years back, Philip, a month-old elephant calf and his mother, were injured. As they walked through the hills of Assam’s Ouguri Range, which is east of Guwahati, the elephant calf lost his footing and slid down the hill. He then fell into a shaft and was...
by Urmi Bhattacharjee | Mar 4, 2018 | Health and Fitness, Home, News, Wildlife
Despite the global Illegal trade in pangolins increasing massively even after many enforcement efforts and successes, there is a disquieting tendency to focus only on charismatic species like tigers and rhinoceros in India. Endangered species like the ‘barely heard’...
by Urmi Bhattacharjee | Jan 16, 2018 | Food, Health and Fitness, Home, News, Sustainability, Tech
Rice generally forms an integral part of major cuisines all over the world. This is particularly true for the regional cuisines of India. There is a huge variety of rice grown all over India, each one with its own unique flavor and taste. In fact, every Indian state...
