From composting food waste to transforming landfills into green parks, these rural communities are proving that true ...

Hailed as India’s ‘Mini Brazil’, an MP village's love of football is bringing about social transformation. School dropout rates have dropped, enrolment is up, parents cheer girls on the ...

IT is now twenty years since a remarkable page in Sir Henry Maine's “Ancient Law” drew attention to the prevalence in India of the village-community ... them have in small sums out of the ...

The scandal was that six of those elected to lead the village had been women ... substitution is commonplace in rural India, in exactly the places where small-time leadership positions have ...