Dr Nita Mukherjee finds out how a women’s group has been preserving learnings from the past for sustainable development

Protecting traditional knowledge linked to genetic resources and ensuring that communities share in profits obtained from its commercial use has acquired significance since the 1990s when the concept of intellectual property rights began to be debated. Women’s groups in...

Tanushree Kar reports on the remarkable  initiative of a top design expert, Vanamala Jain, to train women living in slums in the art of pottery

One person can make a difference - perhaps the adage can be applied perfectly to Vanmala Jain - a teacher, entrepreneur and homemaker. Her interest is pottery, which is one of the oldest and most widespread of the decorative arts, consisting of...

Tanushree Kar finds a unique organisation in Pune that looks after children between 0-4 years

Twenty cherubic faces look at you expectantly, some of them laboriously trying to stand up and put out their hands to touch you. They are all between 8-10 months old and their smiles are enough to melt the toughest heart. They are the inhabitants of Shreevatsa -- God’s own children, in literal...