How To Setup a Low-Maintenance Garden? 7 Hacks for Beginners With Busy Schedules
Maintaining a garden is no piece of cake. Doing it in an urban setting with a full-time job makes it even harder. But that shouldn’t keep you from flexing your green muscles. Here are a few tricks and...
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Live Chemical-Free: 6 Ayurvedic Alternatives to Cosmetics You Can Make at Home!
While the disadvantages of cosmetics are well known to us, it is rarely possible to live without them. I mean, can you imagine having breakfast without brushing your teeth? Giving up soaps and shampoos...
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DIY Torch & Zero-Electricity Water Pump: 5 Simple Innovations for Post-Flood...
The time has come for the people of Kerala to unite and channel their efforts towards rebuilding their lives and help the state return to normalcy. Since it will take Kerala at least a few months to...
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Want To Buy And Build Your Own Rocket? This Bengaluru Start-Up is Your Answer!
As children, we often dream big, but our childhood dreams seldom make it to reality. Stuck in a limbo of ‘fantasy’, most of us eventually abandon them. But, two rocket enthusiasts dreamt of flying one;...
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All About Bio-Enzymes: How You Can Make Chemical-Free Floor Cleaners from...
Over the past few years, Bengaluru has been facing a very peculiar yet worrying problem – the frothing of lakes. The foamy layers of clouds floating atop the lakes are visible throughout the year but...
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How to Make an Eco-friendly Rakhi With Items Already In Your Home
Raksha Bandhan is one of the first major festivals that will bear the brunt of the pandemic. Restriction of movement across India and lockdown in some parts has limited shopping activity. Courier...
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How to Make an Eco-Friendly Ganpati at Home in 30 Minutes & 10 Steps
Bengaluru-based Rishita Sharma embarked on her sustainable journey and zero-waste lifestyle six years ago when she co-founded Green Utsav, a venture that organises zero-waste events. During her course...
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Mumbai Society Converts Waste Into Fertilizer, Grows 90 Kgs Organic Veggies...
A society in Mumbai’s Wadala area has not had a visit from the BMC (Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation) waste collection truck for over two years. Instead, Emgee Greens society has been turning its...
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Professor’s DIY Filter Clears Toxic Metals From 100 Litres of Water For Just...
Arsenic, a naturally occurring material, has wide use in industries, such as glass, textiles, tanning and others. However, the element found in the earth’s crust has devastating effects on the human...
View ArticleHow to Make Gift Wraps Out of Banana Leaves For Your Diwali Gifts
It’s that time of the year when gifts and sweets are exchanged and what that also means is that a large amount of plastic and paper is used in just wrapping up the gifts. If you are looking for...
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How to Grow a Bonsai Garden: This Banker Has 550 Trees on His Terrace!
Mangat Singh Thakur, an 80-year-old retired banker from Rohini, Delhi, was in his forties when bonsai were first introduced to India in the late 70s. This, he notes, was thanks to the efforts of Nikunj...
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From Planters to Pet Bed: 10 Useful Things To Make Out of Worn-out Tyres
Playing with worn-out tyres of bicycles, bikes or cars might evoke a sense of nostalgia in everyone but ever wonder what happened to all those tyres? India produces around 6,50,000 tyres and discards...
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Best DIY Mushroom Grow-Kits for Your Garden & 5 Expert Tips to Get you...
Diabetes, heart ailments, boosting foetal health and more — there’s a lot that mushrooms have to offer. Moreover, they come in several varieties, including button, oyster, cep and straw, which can be...
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How to Design Vertical Gardens Anywhere in Your Home with Old Plastic Bottles
Putting together a garden is one of the most satisfying hobbies of all time, that too by reusing available materials. There are multiple ways to make use of the plastic bottles lying around the place....
View ArticleWatch: How To Make Organic Colours At Home In 5 Easy Steps
As we gear up to celebrate the festival of colours, this Holi, let’s take a minute to examine what those synthetic colours will do to our hair and skin. For those with little ones around, it is even...
View ArticleRaksha Bandhan: 7 Easy Steps to Make Eco-Friendly Seed Rakhis at Home
Raksha Bandhan is just around the corner, and siblings all over the world are preparing to find ways to express their love for one another. Among these ways is the rakhi — the eternal symbol of love...
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Homemaker Shares How to Make Natural Soap & Detergent From Soapnuts at Home
When Padma Sankar, or as she is better known in the digital world – ‘Padhu Sankar’, lost her grandmother due to cancer, and subsequently her father in 2008 to the same disease, she was devastated....
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Amid Concrete Jungles, 100s of Birds Flock to Feed in This Pune Woman’s...
For many of us living in concrete jungles, waking up to the twitter of sparrows and a gust of cool breeze seems like a distant dream. But this is not the case for Pune’s Chandan Nagar resident Smita...
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How To Prepare Bio Enzymes From Kitchen Waste? Homemaker With 500 Plants...
As a child, Kolkata-based Nita Singh would spend all her summer vacations in her hometown Deoria in Uttar Pradesh. Away from the bustling city life, she would swim in the nearby river, pluck mangoes...
View ArticleHow To Make Your Plants Winter-Ready? 4 Easy Steps By a Gardening Expert
It’s finally that time of the year when the nip in the air cannot be ignored anymore. Winter is soon going to be here in all its glory. But while there’s a lot to look forward to — the festive season,...
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