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TBI Blogs: How Waterless Urinals Can Change the Lives of India’s 139.9...
Water security is an extremely important point to ponder for securing the growth and development of the Indian economy. The countrymen of the second largest populous nation in the world rely directly...
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This Woman Was a Pavement Dweller, Today She Runs a Sanitary Pad...
In 2008 when the jhopadpattis on the pavements of Sewri were demolished, Parveen Sheikh sat by the footpath with her friend Kanta Nada mourning her lost home. Out of 680 homes, according the 1995...
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Now, Locate Public Toilets Near You on Google Maps in Delhi!
Tired of holding your bladder thanks to lack of toilets in public, or more importantly, hygienically safe toilets in public? The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has partnered with Google on the...
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10,000 Toilet Pits in 1 Day: Maharashtra Villages Are Racing to Become Open...
As part of a campaign to make Maharashtra’s Osmanabad district open defecation free, over 10,000 pits have been dug in a single day by local villagers to allow for the construction of as many toilets...
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At UP Schools, Music Is Helping Kids Practice Better Hygiene & Stay...
When Gondappa’s son reached the age of five, he walked with his hands on the ground and feet in the air to the temple of the village Goddess in Thesgora, Madhya Pradesh. A host of villagers accompanied...
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IIT Kharagpur Invents Low-Cost Dirt Detector That Alerts Authorities When a...
Researchers of Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, have achieved another feat by innovating a low-cost dirt detector that will soon open up the possibility of keeping public facilities clean and...
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In an Inspiring Event, a Bengaluru Society Honoured Its Sanitary Workers to...
The Coconut Garden Residents Welfare Association (RWA) is an informal body of residents in Nagarbhavi, Bangalore, and comprises around 130 houses. As is with most of the RWAs, the work of the...
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A Step-By-Step Guide to Making Your Own Eco-Friendly Sanitary Pads. It’s...
The amount of sanitary waste that is generated every year in India remains largely unknown because there are no reliable statistics on the subject. Though the menstrual revolution brought relief to...
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At Last! Delhi Govt Orders 100% Mechanised Sewage Cleaning in City
Delhi Lieutenant Governor, Anil Baijal, issued directives for 100 per cent mechanisation of the sewage cleaning after more than 10 deaths of sanitation workers cleaning sewages manually were reported...
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Was Sholay’s Jai Injured While Defecating in the Open? This Poster Says So!
Remember that scene in the movie Sholay, where Veeru finds Jai wounded on the ground and asks him how he got injured? Jai explains how, because there was no toilet in his house, he went outside to...
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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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