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Low-Cost, Saves Water & Automatic: This Toilet Wants to Solve Our Sanitation...
Earlier this year, a documentary called Kakkoos unmasked the infernal conditions of public toilets in almost all parts of Tamil Nadu, and the miserable lives of sanitation workers who are forced to...
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The Legend of Kamakhya: How the Bleeding Goddess Celebrates the ‘Shakti’...
While a large percentage of people in India continue to remain aloof when it comes to speaking out loud about menstruation and the issues faced by women, a temple that is well worn with time celebrates...
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How Indore Became Garbage-Free and Beat Every Other City to It
On the surface, Indore looks like any another unremarkable town in central India. Unlike its less commercial cousin – Bhopal – Indore really has little to offer in terms of visual beauty and charm....
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Indian Ads on Periods Have Got It All Wrong, and Here’s How to Fix That
The manner in which menstrual products are represented in Indian TV commercials has a lot to do with how society perceives menstruation in the first place. Not only do these ads depict society’s...
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Want a Wife From This U.P. Village? Be Smart and Get a Toilet!
Understanding the importance of the Swachh Bharat campaign, the inhabitants of a small village called Brahmaputhi in Uttar Pradesh’s Baghpat district have promised never to defecate in the open. Their...
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#FreeThePeriod: 14 Myths That Prove Indian Boys and Men Need the ‘Period Talk’
Dear Women, How many times have you heard a co-worker react to your outburst by asking, “Is it that time of the month again?” and controlled the urge to snap back? Or you were simply about to enter a...
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Searching for a Toilet in Thiruvanathapuram? Mobile Toilets Are Coming to...
Most cities in our country don’t have an adequate number of public toilets. Even if there are public toilets, lack of maintenance and hygiene concerns put off most people from using them. The city of...
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#FreeThePeriod: Had the Period Talk with Your Daughter and Son Yet? Here’s...
Hide them in layers of black and brown. Whisper ‘can I borrow one’ to your colleagues so no one can hear. Skip work and tell them you’re under the weather. Say you’re ‘down’ or ‘on the rag’, but don’t...
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Plastic Bottles to Build Toilets: How One Architect is Solving Two of India’s...
Did you know the Indian cricket team’s jerseys are made from recycled PET bottles? To be precise – 33 bottles make a single outfit, jersey and bottom included. Recycled plastic is a versatile material,...
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How a Group of Assamese Women Convinced 371 Homes to Build Their Own Toilets
When Swachh Bharat Campaign was launched in 2014, one of its key objectives was to make the country open defecation free (ODF). Even now, there are many places across India where people continue to...
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This 25-Year-Old Student Is Making Squatting Easy With His Unique Toilet Design!
For those who generally struggle to squat on Indian toilets, one 25-year-old student from MIT School of Design has come to your rescue. Satyajit Mittal has designed what he calls the first ever...
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This New, Fully Automated ‘Smart She Toilet’ in Kerala Is an Example to the...
With different sanitary initiatives and projects focusing on Open Defecation Free (ODF) being launched on World Toilet Day across the country on Sunday, Thiruvananthapuram Zoo too observed the day in...
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When Tradition Triumphs Modernity: Ladakh’s Dry Toilets
Ladakh opened itself to the world in 1974 when the Government of India first allowed foreign tourists into this high-altitude region of the Himalayas flanked on either side by China and Pakistan. Since...
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Solar-Powered & Self-Cleaning, These are The Toilets India Needs!
When nature calls, you have to answer. But finding a clean public restroom in India, irrespective of whether it’s a city or a village is no mean feat. You either end up having an experience horrific...
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A Woman from Nagaland is Cleaning Varanasi, One Ghat at a Time
Varanasi (or Benaras), the spiritual capital of India, hosts millions of tourists every year. A majority of these tourists visit the city to bathe in the Ganges. Ironically, the river that is...
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Slums Can Be Clean, and Pune Shows Us How It’s Done
Rajni Vaidyanath Salunke lives in the Kishkinda Nagar slum of Pune. She is one of the over 14 lakh people who live in the 500 slum pockets of Pune and who make do with homes that have often been...
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Micro-Financing a Toilet Is Not Just Four Walls and a Hardware, It Is a...
One of the most vivid images of the state of sanitation in India was depicted in the Oscar-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire, in which the young protagonist was shown going to his ‘toilet’. If you have...
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You Can Now Ensure That Public Toilets Are Well-Maintained! Here’s How.
In a bid to achieve Open Defecation Free (ODF) cities and towns across the country, the government has come up with a plan that will assign unique identification numbers to public and community toilets...
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Not Just Padman, Here Are the Many Heroes Making Menstruation Easier for Women
Akshay Kumar’s next biopic, Padman, showcases the story of Arunachalam Muruganantham. Muruganantham is from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, and was affected by the struggles the women in his family faced,...
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Brothers Invent Unique Machine to Improve the Lives of Sanitation Workers
Diptanshu and Mukul Malviya, former students of the St Paul’s Secondary School in Sirohi, Rajasthan, were at a bus station one day when they happened to see a sweeper working. The middle-aged man...
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