Restoring the vitality of MGNREGA is not just about employment, it is about sustaining the economic engine that keeps India’s ...

Growing up in rural India, my grandmother would feed the village dog half a chapati and a bowl of milk each afternoon, surely ...

This story was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, a nonprofit journalism organization. This story is part of the Grist series Parched, an in-depth look at how ...

India has an estimated 378 million young people, nearly two-thirds of whom live in rural areas. Yet despite accounting for ...

In many parts of rural India, pregnancy and childbirth are still shaped by tradition, misinformation, and limited access to ...

The objective of rapid development of rural population in a sustainable manner with a view to bridging the urban–rural divide would require leveraging knowledge and technology in an environment ...

Rural women across India are adapting to climate change in informal ways rooted in cultural practices and indigenous wisdom.

Just a few years ago the people of Churni probably would have had a better chance of spotting an endangered tiger than enjoying a steady internet signal. Doing simple everyday tasks online in this out ...

India has formally closed its decades-old chapter on shared rural telephony as Village Public Telephones (VPTs) fell to zero ...

In India, agriculture is far more than a means of earning a livelihood; it is a way of life that has shaped villages, ...