Can a pumpset metamorphose into a motor vehicle? Somewhere out there in Haryana,they call this smoke belching, spit and gum contraption a Maruta

As traditional coal run brick kilns in Kaithal turn polluters, moves are afloat to shift them out of villages

Sukhomajr, a village in Haryana, has come to symbolise how community efforts at natural regeneration can improve both the forests and the people's standard of living.

While the cultivation of paddy in Punjab (and Haryana) does need some curbing, the extreme forebodings of either total groundwater exhaustion in Punjab or of the state turning into a desert of paddy growing is not curbed forthwith are unwarranted.

Campaigns by women have been successful in curbing alcoholism among their menfolk in Manipur and Andhra Pradesh, but similar efforts have failed in Haryana and drinking there has increased.

A story in an adult literacy primer inspired women in Andhra Pradesh to take up the anti arrack drive.