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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
