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This Coimbatore Man’s Stunning Wooden Cycle Is Viral for All the Right Reasons!
Most of us would vividly remember the moment when we got our first bicycle and how the simple vehicle was the best possible companion as we went about exploring our surroundings during our growing...
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Coimbatore Techie Sells 40+ Varieties of Native Leafy Greens, Empowers Farmers!
As children, most of us probably detested the different dishes that our mothers would prepare using green leafy vegetables, and what was worse, were the various tactics they would use to coax us into...
View ArticleVideo: Check Out India’s 1st Food Vending Machine On-Board a Running Train!
On Friday, June 8, 2018, the Coimbatore-Bengaluru UDAY Express was flagged off. There are thousands of trains that run daily, except that this train was special, it had a vending machine on it! NDTV...
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Domestic Help to International Athlete: The Incredible Journey of a TN Woman!
For 36-year old Vasanthi Anand from Tamil Nadu, life has been quite the roller-coaster ride. As reported by The Times of India, She will run the 5000-meter run, half marathon and steeplechase at the...
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Brave Coimbatore Doctor Drove 14 Km in Torrential Rains to Save Life of Child!
September 2nd, 2017 was a regular work day for Dr Sunay Bhat— a laparoscopic surgeon based in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. At that time, he was working as a surgical consultant in a Christian charity...
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Can You Perform Headstands Twice a Day? This 99-YO Grandmother From TN Can!
Yoga, the ancient Indian art form of twisting and stretching one’s body towards health has unfortunately disappeared from the lives of Indians over the last few generations. In a one-to-one with yoga...
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10 Ways Tamil Nadu Is Preparing to Go Plastic-Free by Jan 2019
India is waking up to the numerous issues associated with the usage of plastic and is leading the fight against it with full force. Several states have already taken the first step in the fight by...
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What Links India’s Chandrayaan Missions to a TN Village? This Brilliant...
In India, unless it is a cricketer, retirement is an event that usually draws no attention. Even if you are the man who literally put India on the moon. The Better India is proud to honour Dr Mylswamy...
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Courageous Coimbatore Cop Risks Life to Save 10 People Trapped in Flooded...
The floods in and around Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, have increased in intensity, as surplus water was discharged from the Kurichi tank into the Noyyal river through the Sunnambu Kalvai Channel. The...
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Treatment or Surgery Botched Up By Doctor/Hospital? Here’s What You Can Do!
Eight years ago, in July 2010, Chitra Illango, an employee of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University in Coimbatore, was admitted to Sri Ramakrishna Hospital for minor hernia surgery. As a routine...
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Grandma’s ‘Gunpowder’ Parceled With Love: You Have to Try What This TN Lady...
For South Indians, nothing comes close to being the perfect accompaniment to spice up a piping-hot plate of idli, dosa or even thayir sadam (curd rice for the uninitiated) than the unassuming podi or...
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Rs 3,600 Cr from ADB to Redefine Urban Living in 10 TN Cities: 8 Facts to Know!
When Chennai went underwater during the devastating floods of November 2015, urban planners and environmentalists had cited encroachment and destruction of water bodies, besides a poor drainage system...
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India-Russia: When an Ooty Barber Impressed Soviet Leaders in the 1950s
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in India on Thursday for the annual India-Russia bilateral summit that has been taking place since 2000 alternately in Moscow and New Delhi. As such, it is a...
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TN Ambulance Staff Row Across Flooded River, Borrow Bike to Save Pregnant Lady!
In writing this article, my respect for those who work as emergency response workers has increased manifold. Given the condition of our roads and the constant traffic snarls, it is a wonder that the...
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This Indomitable Woman Didn’t Let Patriarchy, Sexual Abuse Or Multiple...
Between adversity and our response is a space. In that space are the power and freedom to choose to crumble, or to elevate both ourselves and others. Stephen R. Covey Life hadn’t been too considerate...
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Handicapped For Life, This Unsung Hero Created a ‘Valley For the Disabled’ in...
Imagine being seated on a chair, with no one else in the room with you, other than a pesky mosquito buzzing near your ear. You want to swat it away; you try and move your arms to do it. Your brain has...
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TN Scientists Develop Fungi That Can Make Plants Grow Even In Low-Water...
Scientists at the Bharathiar University engaged in studying the ecology of soil microbes that colonize plant roots, have isolated a fungus that can enhance plant growth even in water deficit...
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Food Secrets: This Humble Man Is the Brew Master Behind Coimbatore’s Unique...
If you are a tea lover visiting Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, B Manickam’s unique layered tea is a must-have. Even if you not that big a fan of tea, you will love this cuppa for its sheer aesthetics and...
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#UPSCSimplified: IAS Topper K Vijaykarthikeyan Shares How to Tackle Negative...
With over 10 lakh applicants each year, and only 1,000 selections – the UPSC exams can seem like an insurmountable hurdle. But it can be crossed! In ‘UPSC Simplified’, The Better India catches up with...
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TN Villagers, Activists Win Freedom for Wild Elephant; Help Him Journey Back...
To give him his due, it wasn’t really Chinnathambi’s intention to become an internet rage. The poor 25-year-old was only trying to maneuver his portly frame through the narrow alleyways of a village...
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#UPSCSimplified: IAS Topper Vijaykarthikeyan on How to Pick a Coaching Centre
With over 10 lakh applicants each year, and only 1,000 selections – the UPSC exams can seem like an insurmountable hurdle. But it can be crossed! In ‘UPSC Simplified’, The Better India catches up with...
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Meet the ‘Electrifying’ TN Lady Smashing Stereotypes With Sustainable...
“To create innovation, one needs first to dare to step out of the box, and then the rest will follow,” says this Indian entrepreneur, who has revolutionised the market for e-vehicles in India,...
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Dignity For the Dead: 23-YO Has Helped Give 250 Unclaimed Bodies Their Last...
I remember something my father said to me when my grandfather passed away almost a decade ago. He said that the success of one’s life can be measured by seeing the number of people who show up at one’s...
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7 Lakes, 1,000+ Tonnes of Waste & 1 Forest: Meet the Man behind This Massive...
Nine-year-old Krishna has been looking forward to playing his favourite game of waging a battle against the Kurichi Kulam, a fishing pond in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. It will be his second week in the...
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How One Man From Coimbatore Laid The Foundation For Indian Motorsports
By most accounts, Coimbatore’s very own Sundaram Karivardhan, a racing driver, car designer and business executive, is widely considered as the pioneer of Indian motorsport. Blazing a trail during the...
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Over 1 Lakh Buildings in 3 Decades: Meet The Kerala Architect Pioneering...
For over three decades, Padma Shri recipient Gopal Shankar has been at the forefront of sustainable architecture in not just India, but around the world. Starting the Habitat Technology Group, the...
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Coimbatore Initiative Serves Junk-Free Snacks & Lunches to Thousands of...
At the break of dawn, the whistle of the pressure cooker resounded through the walls, piercing into the deepest of slumber. A clarion call for impending madness of a day, it would set the chores...
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TN Auto Driver Once Wanted to End His Life. Today, He Feeds Thousands of...
If things went as I had planned, I would have been dead today,” begins 45-year-old B Murugan. In 1992, he had just written and failed his class 10 examinations, and had decided to take his life....
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Meet the TN Welder Who Cleans Toilets to Educate Orphans & Needy Kids!
Charity can mean different things to different people, but for Loganathan, it has only one meaning—an opportunity to serve others. Born in a family of daily-wage labourers, he could not study beyond...
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GD Naidu: How a School Dropout From Coimbatore Became India’s Edison
G D Naidu or Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu, fondly remembered as ‘Edison of India’, is credited for initiating the industrial revolution in the country. During his lifetime, Naidu worked on several...
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Sale of Fake Tea Powder Rampant: Here’s How to Check Your Tea For Adulteration
India is the 2nd largest producer of tea in the world, with per capita consumption amounting to 19 per cent of the total world-wide consumption. The domestic population in India consumes around 76 per...
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5 Inspiring Indian Villages That Are Smashing Stereotypes!
The word progressive is not something one associates with Indian villages which are infamous for being hotspots for gender discrimination, female foeticide, child marriages and rampant illiteracy, yet...
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‘Cherished My Attention to Integrity’: What Former CEC TN Seshan Said About...
Known as the man who changed the face of the Indian Electoral System, TN Seshan passed away due to cardiac arrest on Sunday, 10 November in Chennai. He was 86. Today as I sit down to pen this tribute,...
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Costly Repairs Souring Your Gadgets? Bring Them To This Low-Cost ‘Doctor’...
Got a new smartphone? Nice big screen? Great camera for selfies? But then you drop it once and see cracks appear on the beloved screen. Or may be something else breaks. And you feel like chucking it in...
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Son Fulfils Late Father’s Dream, Beats Odds to Win National Karate Championships
“My appa strongly believed in the power of discipline and channelising energy constructively. I remember that he sat me down before my first karate class and explained how the two were essential values...
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Meet Mumbai’s Sneha, The Commercial Pilot & India’s Fastest Woman Race Car...
Nothing gives Sneha Sharma, a professional Formula 4 race car driver and commercial pilot flying with IndiGo Airlines, a better adrenaline rush than speed. “I was 14 when I discovered my irresistible...
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Meet the Two Nomad Architects Making Naturally Cool ‘Earth Buildings’ Across...
Although Stanzin Phuntsog (24), a self-taught eco-architect from the Ayee village in Ladakh’s Nubra valley, and his accomplished co-worker Samyuktha S (29) from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, are from the...
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TN Man Makes Low-Cost Ice Cream that’s 100% Vegan, Local & Natural
Have you ever wondered what the world would be without ice creams? Served in a cup or cone, ice cream is one thing that can bring instant happiness to most of us. We can enjoy them with our families...
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Once Homeless, Tamil Transwoman Blazed a Trail With Her Successful Catering...
Food never discriminates, it only satisfies hunger and makes people happy, says 60-year-old Sangeetha, who has been successfully running The Sangeetha Catering Service, one of Coimbatore’s most popular...
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Can You Start A Business During A Pandemic? Coimbatore Transgenders Find a Way
In July, The Better India spoke to Sangeetha, a 60-year-old Coimbatore-based transwoman, who has been successfully running The Sangeetha Catering Service, one of the most popular catering services in...
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A Farmer & Single Mom, How One Lady’s Grit Ensured Her Daughter Joined The IPS
IPS Nirmala Devi’s mother never made it past the seventh grade in her Alundurai village in Coimbatore. And yet, education was of prime importance in her daily life. This year, as IPS Nirmala Devi was...
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85-YO Grandpa Is Keeping a Rare Folk Dance Alive With His Award-Winning Efforts
Every now and then you come across people who break barriers and inspire us to achieve our goals, sans excuses. Bhathirappan, 85, from Thekampatti village in Coimbatore district, is one such person. He...
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Palakkad’s 85-YO Achaar Mami Has Been Pickling for 30 Years, Sells Over 1,000...
“I’ve been making and selling pickles for over three decades now. I ought to have made some amount of profit from it, right?” asks 85-year-old Alamelu Ammal, a.k.a Ponnu mami. A resident of Kalpathy...
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Coimbatore Couple Sells Snacks For Rs 5 To Rural Groups; Earns Rs 35 Cr/Year
IIn his book ‘The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid’ (2004), C K Prahalad, a professor at the University of Michigan’s business school, talks about giving purchasing power to marginalised...
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Better Parenting Comes From Better Sex-Ed: Coimbatore Sexpert Shares
Like all ’90s kids in India, I too grew up watching the popular dance show called ‘Boogie Woogie’ and aspired to be on that stage. I would love to dance and could do it for several hours at a stretch....
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Returning From US, This Engineer Rescued 65,000 Animals in 15 Years
Mini Vasudevan was not going to be one of those Indians who merely complained about the plight of her home country while living abroad and earning in dollars. When she moved back from the United States...
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‘One Morning I Was Fine; By Evening I Was Paralysed’: My Life With Multiple...
“On the morning of 26 October 2009, I woke up feeling absolutely normal. In fact, the next day was my wedding anniversary, so it would even be right to say that I was in a rather buoyant mood. By...
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5 Ponds, 4 Lakes, 3 Canals: This Man Dedicated his Life to Reviving Filthy...
When one of the community wells in his village dried up, Manikandan recounts how much difficulty it caused his family who depended on it for domestic purposes. While people spoke about the issue across...
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Students Design Zero Emission, Sustainable Boat to Represent India in Monaco
Those who passed by the Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore, in the past few months, have been met with a novel sight. In the garage on campus, 14 students huddled together building what would...
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‘I Was 1st in My Family to Finish School’: Started With Rs 2000, Woman’s...
“Everyone was pressuring me to get married. I wanted to first complete my higher education and earn well to support my family. I asked my mother to give me half the money that she had saved for my...
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