Gouditikra in Orissa provides a model of how community participation can transform a village

Vadodara's residents show that handling garbage hands on is the best way to beat municipal overload

How the villagers of Pujara Ki Chowki foiled hamhanded attempts of the state forest department to force start a plantation on a forest already protected and nurtured by the people

A whopping 25,000 people formed a human chain in Kerala's Jeerakappara forest to rally against the wanton destruction wrought by encroachers

People affected by an irrigation project in Rajasthan are not only speaking out collectively against the insensitivity, they are teaming up with others in same soup

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.

The Sarvodaya Ashram in Uttar Pradesh has helped regenerate of hectares of saline land.

Through the centuries, Indians have evolved several novel ways to protest injustice. Many are still practised in India and some have even been adopted abroad.

On a single day in 1731, more than 350 persons 69 of them women sacrificed their lives to protect their trees from being felled in Jalnadi village, near Jodhpur.

The people of Bhansoj, 50 km from the district headquarters town of Raipur in Madhya Pradesh, are up in arms against liquor, and achieving results. Until last year, Bhansoj was notorious for severe

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