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TBI Travel: Discovering the magic of Nila

The Better India has chosen April as the Travel Month. As the summer holidays approach, parents and children all over India start making plans to visit some place they have never been to before. In our posts, you will learn of places very few know of and some places that many know of, but all [...]

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Interview: Mr. D. Dhanuraj, Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR)

May 15, 2011 No Comment

Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR) is a Kochi-based think tank which undertakes economic, social and political research. Their main areas of focus are Governance, Education, Health, Law, Livelihood, and Urban Reforms. CPPR has carried out research projects and published policy papers for government bodies, private institutions, and academic institutions. Their work has had a [...]

Palliative Care Initiatives in Kerala

May 6, 2011 1 Comment

The power of healing does not lie in just prescribing drugs and medical treatment. What it essentially requires is caring for the patients. Palliative care is a specialized area of healthcare that focuses on relieving and preventing the suffering of patients. It includes care of the patient and family, pain and symptom management, disease-modifying treatments, [...]

Grassroots Innovation: Multi-Utility Fuel Efficient Stove

February 28, 2011 2 Comments

The National Innovation Foundation (NIF), India, was established on Feb 28th 2000 by the Department of Science and Technology (DST). The main goal of NIF is to provide institutional support in scouting, spawning, sustaining and scaling up grassroots green innovations and help their transition to self supporting activities. NIF has been supporting and incubating a [...]

Braille Without Borders: IISE

March 15, 2010 3 Comments

In the midst of the backwaters of Kerala, when you visit IISE (International Institute Of Social Entrepreneurship) you are sure that it is a perfect setting anyone could have imagined for an institute like that. Far from rat race of the cities, situated in Kochivelli, IISE campus is a perfect amalgamation of modernization, simplicity and [...]

Cooking stove that saves lives

April 22, 2009 3 Comments

A cooking stove that not only cooks faster, saves fuel but also reduces harmful emissions by 80%. This is the promise of the stoves manufactured by Envirofit India Pvt. Ltd, part of the Shell Group. And they have already found 50,000 takers in the southern states of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala. Eliminating [...]

The courage of one woman stubbed out smoking in an entire nation!

October 10, 2008 4 Comments

Not many know that Kerala was the first state to ban smoking in public places way back in 1999. And this had come about by the mantel taken up by a single woman professor, Monamma Kokkad, who had the courage to stand against tobacco giants and smokers’ ire and file a petition for the smoking [...]