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Society, Culture, Religion and History
Local weather stations greatly improve local crop production
Posted on 19 Nov, 2014 05:06 PM“In gram crops to control gram-pod borers, use pheromone traps”. While a statement like that most likely won't make sense to average people, it does to the farming community in the Sangamner taluka of Ahmednagar, Maharashtra. They have been trained to make sense of the agro-advisory provided by Vasundhara Sewaks.
![Onion seeds in farms (Source: WOTR)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/51ed199b89319onion-seeds-cultivated-in-farms-in-kumbharwadi.jpg?itok=UBE50-gk)
Toilets and social networks: Is there a connection?
Posted on 06 Nov, 2014 10:54 PMOf late, there have been plenty of discussions around the topic of sanitation, which have focussed on building toilets on a massive scale. These are in the aftermath of the new and recently released Millennium Development Goals Report 2014 by the United Nations that shows that India has the world's largest population that defecates out in the open, with it being as high as 66% in rural India [1
![Toilet use (Source: Sourabh Phadke)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/sp_toilets_2.jpg?itok=vc_NYQCr)
It's not just about rape!
Posted on 05 Nov, 2014 11:17 AMNandatai and her 16 year old daughter Phula creep out of their houses quietly in the wee hours of the morning into the dark fields to relieve themselves before everyone wakes up. It is an everyday story as this is the only time in the day that they have privacy. “It is so shameful to go out in the fields during the day”, says Nandatai. “We have to hold our urine till it gets dark.
![Women in rural areas (Source: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/rural_woman.jpg?itok=xL86PQoZ)
Gender inclusive development in mountains
Posted on 04 Nov, 2014 03:00 PMThis introduction to the special issue on "Gender and sustainable development in the mountains- Transformative innovations, tenacious resistances" by Ritu Verma et al published in the journal Mountain Research and Development, highlights the poor situation of women as well as gender discrim
![Mountain women in Uttarakhand](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/womenin_mountains.jpg?itok=VXUJx9su)
Invitation to the training programme on "Basic and Advanced Data Analysis using SPSS", Sambodhi Research and Communications Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi
Posted on 31 Oct, 2014 11:51 AMSambodhi Research and Communications Pvt. Ltd. announces a three day training programme on "Basic and Advanced Data Analysis using SPSS".
The programme aims to:-
The past is not a foreign country...we still do the same things for water here
Posted on 26 Oct, 2014 11:03 AMRaujibhai came to Dholavira with the excavation team of the Archeological Society of India when he was 19 years old.
![Ancient water structures at Dholavira](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/15412763840_06febcc7fa_z.jpg?itok=NMGl6dkR)
Fish frenzy in the land of butter chicken!
Posted on 16 Oct, 2014 08:20 PMGurdeep Bains is busy dealing with two sets of contractors who have arrived to net his fish. He had to refuse a third. “This is the scenario when the market is supposedly down as people tend to avoid non-vegetarian food during saavan, one of the holiest months in the traditional Hindu calendar.
![Fish farming in Punjab](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/dsc03790.jpg?itok=mKchHoU-)
The slow death of a river
Posted on 15 Oct, 2014 05:12 PMThe Kshipra is considered a sacred river in Madhya Pradesh's Malwa region. In the last few decades, this perennial river has also lost its glory like many other rivers in India.
![Prayers on the bank of the Kshipra](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/dsc_0007-3.jpg?itok=7RKci9Rn)
Scheme to develop 2,379 villages in the next 5 years launched
Posted on 14 Oct, 2014 11:47 AMCentre launches the Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana
![A drought-free village in Maharashtra](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/11797948633_2f4f8368ea_b.jpg?itok=5JMtMbyW)
Sleight of hand in the Sabarmati
Posted on 29 Sep, 2014 12:26 AM'Sabarmati ke Sant, tune kar diya kamaal'. Oh Saint of Sabarmati, you have done wonders' goes the popular song. Today, it is the Sabarmati herself who is supposed to be the subject of a miracle.
![A view of the concrete-bound Sabarmati](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/sterile_sabarmati1_0.jpg?itok=0qWi_Wg3)