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  1. Nature’s way of farming-Permaculture

    What can be more exciting than to be able to cook a meal with the veggies grown in your backyard? Or to be eating chemical-free, healthy vegetables and greens. One need not have a professional degree in agriculture to practice permaculture farming methods ...
  2. Creating ODF villages one area at a time

    Creating ODF villages, one area at a time An ordinary and inevitable room of a house can change someone’s life. Extraordinarily. We’re talking about a bathroom, more specifically, a toilet. A one-pointed determination to realize an open defecation free (O ...
  3. Rama Tewary: Bringing a natural farming revolution to the Northeast

    Diagnosed with throat cancer, Rama Tewari’s life came to a standstill in 2004. Holding a doctorate in botany, this brilliant scientist was fighting choices. Having tried and exhausted many forms of treatment, she decided to come to The Art of Living Inter ...
  4. Children of the Bamboo sing a new tune

    With 821 homes lit, Karnataka’s Soliga tribe welcomes electricity in the village It was a new sight. Seeing a bright light inside a hut in the middle of the day. No, it was not sunlight. This unusual sight gathered attention, and soon there was a little c ...
  5. Constructing toilets to combat open defecation

    A software engineer constructing toilets in the villages of Andhra Pradesh is a rare sight. This is precisely what you will find Sudhakar Veeravalli doing. Armed with a Master's Degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas, Sudhakar qu ...
  6. Opening doors of opportunity

    The Sri Sri Rural Development program has set up training institutes in Solan, Himachal Pradesh, with the idea of channelizing the energy of the youth in a productive direction as a step toward rooting out substance abuse. Beginning with the Sri Sri Compu ...
  7. Medicine: Not an Obligation for Good Health!

    Across the globe, there are ubiquitous chemists that sell out medicines to make sure you are free of headache, stomach-ache, body pain, etc. Do you believe your self-regulatory body needs the human touch of medication to remain healthy? How about spending ...
  8. An unusual passion for natural farming promises to turn around the lives of farmers

    “I wish no Indian household had to eat poison and urea. It is a heinous crime to play with human life,” says Yogita Sharan Singh. She is an MA in Economics, a journalist-turned-editor of a newspaper in Bhopal, India. A young blood from the state of Chatti ...
  9. They stopped yielding poison for you

    From the far-off interiors of Indore, he rode on a bike to Bhopal. Nandkishor Barhar was eager to know how to yield naturally-grown crops. Impressed by the Sri Sri Natural Farming program teachings, he took 50 kilos of Bansi gehu (a type of wheat) to sow. ...
  10. Organic farming

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