Millet farming at the Puthukkudy tribal settlement under the Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary, near Marayur, in Idukki. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT The tribal settlements in the Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary (CWS) near Marayur in Idukki are reaping the benefits of Punarjeevanam, an initiative launched eight years ago to revive millet cultivation. Launched in collaboration with the … Read more
At the peak of Uttarakhand’s statehood movement in the 1990s, the hills would often reverberate with the ” Kodo-Jhangora khayenge, Uttarakhand banayenge” slogan, remembers Dwarika Prasad Semwal, a social activist who has pioneered a mission to popularise the State’s traditional foods. The slogan appealed to Mr. Semwal, at the time a teenager helping his father … Read more
Irrigation Minister Govind Karjol will inaugurate a Millet Mela on the Government Sardar High School Grounds in Belgavi on Wednesday, at 11 a.m. The two-day event is being held to create awareness about millets. This is in the light of 2023 being declared as the International Year of Millets. A Millet Jatha was held in … Read more
Even as the nation demands an end to violence against women in light of the Hathras alleged gangrape and murder case, politicians continue to prove why gender sensitisation is a distant dream. A BJP leader from Uttar Pradesh’s Barabanki claimed that the four upper-caste men accused of brutally gangraping and killing a 19-year-old Dalit woman … Read more