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Sep 27, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Moushumi Basu
Alexander the Great’s Visit to the City of TroyThe ancient city of Troy was just as famous to the ancient Greeks as it is to us today. For this reason, people sometimes liked to visit the city. …
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
nationalgeographic.com | Moushumi Basu
Lalasha Yadav and his neighbors consider themselves doting parents—but not the kind you might imagine. For the past eight years, Yadav and his fellow farmers and fishermen along northern India’s Gandak River have raised and reintroduced more than 600 eggs and hatchlings of the critically endangered gharial, a prehistoric long-snouted reptile. Now found only in India and Nepal, these crocodile relatives once inhabited over 30,000 square miles of South Asian rivers.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
therevelator.org | Moushumi Basu
Saudamini Mohakud, the 65-year-old elder of her village, proudly calls herself the daughter and bride of the Eastern Ghats, the range of mountains that borders the eastern Indian state of Odisha. The mountains’ undulating wooded hills cradle her native village, Punasia, where she was born and wed. Saudamini says she could not have been happier growing up in its lap of lush greenery, which included about 50 acres of the community forests near her village.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
therevelator.org | Moushumi Basu
Helping Indigenous peoples to protect forests and other shared resources will keep us all safer from climate change and other threats. Helping Indigenous peoples to protect forests and other shared resources will keep us all safer from climate change and other threats.
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
eco-business.com | Moushumi Basu
Surjeet Kaur is a 38-year-old farmer whose family has tilled land for generations in Patiala district in the Indian state of Punjab. Each year, Kaur and her family together harvest about 90 quintals (9 tonnes) of paddy from their 3 acres of land. The steady earning from the paddy harvest is, however, accompanied by the need to quickly dispose of straw and agricultural waste in order to plant wheat.
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Moushumi Basu
19 hours agoYou can get up to $3,200 back. Whether you're a new homeowner who's knee-deep in a gut renovation or you're making necessary upgrades to your forever home, you might think that every home improvement is simply a sunk cost. Don't despair, though. Home improvements can greatly increase the value of …
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
thethirdpole.net | Moushumi Basu
Surjeet Kaur is a 38-year-old farmer whose family has tilled land for generations in Patiala district in the Indian state of Punjab. Each year, Kaur and her family together harvest about 90 quintals (9 tonnes) of paddy from their 3 acres of land. The steady earning from the paddy harvest is, however, accompanied by the need to quickly dispose of straw and agricultural waste in order to plant wheat.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
villagesquare.in | Sukanya Roy |Moushumi Basu
It was a warm comfortable spring day in Delhi. Winter fog had just lifted itself easing in the breeze and sun. We were at Sunder Nursery setting up Village Square’s 3rd annual photo exhibition. After tireless past couple of months of organising the competition, it was finally time for the exhibition to be on display. Entries received this year were breathtaking, spanning four different categories – food, fashion, culture and aerial.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
villagesquare.in | Sukanya Roy |Moushumi Basu |Worngachan Shatsang
International Mother Language Day is celebrated each year to emphasise the importance of cultural and linguistic diversity for sustainable societies. India is home to a myriad of languages, which have shaped its history and culture. With countless regional languages and dialects, India is truly a linguistic paradise. But given the rapid pace of globalisation that has lead to assimilation of cultures, indigenous languages face the threat of extinction.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
villagesquare.in | Sukanya Roy |Moushumi Basu |Worngachan Shatsang |Unnati Sharma
Honey-collectors, locally known as moulis, make arduous journeys on small boats on the Matla and Bidyadhari rivers, every year during March-May, which is the honey collection season. This honey is sold under the name “Mouban”. The growing demand for Mouban can be evidenced by its rising sales. From November 2023 to January 2024, ₹5 lakh worth of forest honey was sold at the Sajnekhali kiosk in the Sundarbans.
