Sukanya Roy

Nov 28, 2024 | villagesquare.in | Kumar Gaurav |Aatreyee Dhar |Sukanya Roy

Sansarpur, Mithapur, and Khusropur — these are not just any villages in Punjab’s Jalandhar district. They have a storied history of producing world-class hockey players, legends who have represented their nations on the grand stage of the Olympics. Sansarpur alone has gifted the world 14 Olympians — nine for India, four for Kenya, and one for Canada. For generations, young players dreaming of hockey greatness would be told to visit Sansarpur, where the magic of the sport runs deep in the soil.

Nov 27, 2024 | villagesquare.in | Aatreyee Dhar |Kumar Gaurav |Sukanya Roy |Unnati Sharma

It’s not every day an engineering professor becomes a knight in shining armour. But when Harjeet Nath walked into a school-turned-relief camp for those displaced by the August 2024 Tripura floods, thirsty residents rushed around him. Though the Kalipara school was surrounded by floodwater, safe drinking water was hard to come by. So the professor at the Department of Chemical and Polymer Engineering at Tripura University offered his new innovation – a suitcase-sized portable water purifier.

Nov 26, 2024 | villagesquare.in | Kumar Gaurav |Sukanya Roy |Unnati Sharma

History has been unkind to certain narratives. One such forgotten or misunderstood chronicle is that of the Sufi saints, whose contributions to resisting oppression have largely been lost to time. It is this absence that inspired Syed Amjad Hussain, a 19-year-old writer and descendant of Sufi saints, to document his past. Hussain, who is in his last year of graduation from the Maulana Azad University of Technology in West Bengal, is on a mission to revive the overlooked history of Sufism in Bihar.

Nov 26, 2024 | villagesquare.in | Sukanya Roy |Kumar Gaurav |Unnati Sharma

Abira was 26 and seven months pregnant when she found herself trapped in a cycle of domestic abuse. Her husband is an alcoholic and his violent behaviour showed no signs of stopping. Her in-laws offered no support. They often denied her food and medical care, objecting to her decision to continue working at a nearby paper factory in Magrahat village of South 24 Parganas district in West Bengal. “They didn’t want a working woman as their son’s wife,” Abira said.

Oct 18, 2024 | villagesquare.in | ANKIT RAWAT |Atiqur Rahman |Sukanya Roy

Sheep farmers in Uttarakhand and other cold, mountainous regions earn by selling their sheep’s fleece too, in addition to the sale of milk, manure and meat. Most of the shepherds in these regions have been unaware of mechanical shears and only use scissors to cut the fleece manually, which has some drawbacks. A cost-effective mechanised sheep shearing device now has the potential to help the shepherds cut the sheep’s fleece from the root and earn more.