Thousands of widows of Vrindavan and women abandoned by their families celebrated Diwali by lighting diyas at the Keshi Ghat on the Yamuna river in Mathura. Dressed in white saris, the......
Answering a call from Afghanistan forlow-cost alternatives in sanitation, the Sulabh International, a non-governmental organisation,is all set to build five model toilets in Kabul.The project is in......
A splurge of colours marked Holi for Vrindavan and the widows of Varanasi, as over a thousand of them broke the 400-year-old tradition and celebrated the festival within the precincts of the......
A coffee table book on the life of Prime Minister Narendra Modi was globally launched in Washington, DC and presented to several American lawmakers. “The Making of a Legend” has images......
Widows in Vrindavan enjoy Holi under the auspices of Sulabh International, an NGO trying to improve the living condition of widows having no one to support them and living in government shelter......
On the one had are sanitation oriented social enterprises and on the other are awareness raising campaigns by government, writes Rajni Bakshi. A law that bans toilets where human excreta has......