Girls in an Uttarakhand district find their names on their houses. It is a claim worth nurturing What’s in a name? Patriarchy teaches a woman, early on, to settle for a slender grip on the primary block of identity — her name. It changes with marriage, as several women take on their husband’s family name to mark the transition from …
PadCare Labs, a Pune-based startup, has set a monthly target to prevent about 4,800 sanitary pads from reaching landfills and being disposed of in other unscientific methods. PadCare Labs, a Pune-based startup, has set a monthly target to prevent about 4,800 sanitary pads from reaching landfills and being disposed of in other unscientific methods. The company recently signed a Memorandum …
NEW DELHI: India is the only country among G20 nations which is on track to meet what it had promised in 2015 under the Paris Agreement on climate change unlike the top three emitters — China, the US and the EU. India’s track record of being the only “2°C compatible” country was flagged in a report released on Wednesday by …
Bihar’s Nawada district usually makes the headlines for Naxal violence. Recently, a 19-year-old woman from the district has been feted for finding a solution to a crisis that had been brewing since the start of the lockdown in March — access to sanitary pads in rural India. Mausam Kumari started a sanitary pad bank four years ago, based on the idea of …
An ex-techie and a fitness enthusiast, Ripu Daman Bevli followed his heart in cleaning up the nation while inspiring others to join the cause. In 2017, while enjoying his breakfast at Qahwa — a cafe in the SDA Market in New Delhi — Ripu Daman Bevli read a newspaper report, which said a particular stretch of road had been littered …
