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Best Menstrual Cups to Buy in 2026 (Sustainable & Body-Safe)
Prakati Edit · Buyer’s Guide 2026 Best Menstrual Cups to Buy in 2026 (Sustainable & Body-Safe) One small silicone cup, a decade of use, and hundreds of pads kept out of a landfill — here are six India-made cups worth trusting. Average Indian woman menstruates for roughly 3,000–3,500 days across her lifetime. For most of…
A Buffalo Farmer in Haryana Just Got Paid for India’s Biodiversity — Here’s How That System Works
Somewhere in Haryana, a family that has spent generations breeding Murrah buffalo — one of the country’s most valuable dairy breeds — just received Rs. 4.30 lakh from the government. Not a subsidy, not a loan, and not compensation for a disaster. It’s a benefit-sharing payment, the reward for having conserved a genetic resource that…
India’s Reservoirs Are About to Become Solar Farms — Meet the Pradhan Mantri Surya Sarovar Yojana
India’s solar expansion has always run into the same quiet constraint: land. Ground-mounted solar parks need tens of thousands of contiguous acres, and in a country where agricultural land is scarce and contested, that has meant delays, resistance, and difficult trade-offs between food and energy security. On July 31, the Union Cabinet approved a scheme…
Why a Quiet Meeting in Delhi Could Decide What India Eats a Century from Now
Somewhere inside a climate-controlled vault at the ICAR–National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources in New Delhi sit roughly half a million samples of seed, tissue and germplasm — landraces of rice grown nowhere else, wild relatives of pulses that no longer show up in any farmer’s field, and varieties collected from villages that may not…
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Best Khus Curtains for Natural Cooling: Eco-Friendly Summer Alternatives
Discover the best khus (vetiver) curtains for natural cooling this summer. These eco-friendly, zero-electricity cooling curtains are biodegradable, sustainable, and perfect for Indian homes.
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5 Eco-friendly Ganesha Idols We Can Buy Online for Ganesh Chaturthi 2024
Ganesh Chaturthi or “Vinayak Chaturthi” is one of the most sacred Hindu festivals. The festival celebrates the birth of Lord Ganesha – the supreme God of wisdom and prosperity. The festival is marked with the installation of Ganesha clay idols privately in homes, or publicly on elaborate pandals (temporary stages) across the country. In this post,…
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Start with our most-read guides on everyday sustainable living in India: learn about organic fertilizers for a chemical-free garden, get the dustbin colour codes for waste segregation right at home, discover sea buckthorn, the Himalayan superfruit, and explore the biodiesel plants powering India’s clean fuel transition.