Composting Buddies : Black Soldier Flies

By Rini Varghese   Quite early on while composting you would have to befriend this unique dipteran, every composters' buddy, the black soldier fly.   Don't go by its looks, don't mis...

Maggots in your Compost?

Maggot problems in your compost ? Especially during the warmer months of February,March and April ? By Rini Varghese   Maggots are tiny larvae of fruit-flies/ soldier flies which multiply ra...

13 Reasons Why... Cup!

If you were thinking about switching to the menstrual cup, but hesitating, we give you 13 reasons!

To buy or not to buy a menstrual cup

By Rini Varghese Are you facing this dilemma too? When you start browsing the internet, all you can see are menstrual cups advertisement everywhere. There are big cups, small cups, colored cups, s...

Run on Periods! By Shilpi Sahu

Shilpi Sahu is a marathoner who always ends up with a podium finish. She shares her experience on how she runs - periods or no periods!  You are a runner. The customary weekend long run is underwa...

Dr Shanti - The Green Warrior

“We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhig...

Can my daughter use a menstrual cup?

Can my daughter use a cup?  How many times I have heard this question. The answer is nuanced and there is not straight yes or no. I recommend that the parent first watches the TEDx talk - The Vir...

Deepika- Ranveer's Green Wedding

By Rini Varghese Deepveer Wedding aka Deepika - Ranveer wedding had the entire nation wait with bated breaths for their near fairy-talish wedding pictures to come out in the public eye.And when the...

Soap nuts or Wonder nuts?

Chemicals have invaded every nook and corner of our life. Everything we use nowadays is ready made, store bought and synthetic. Natural solutions for simple things have been replaced by complex, fa...

Saathi Showcase - Shantha Nataraj

Our series on our Saathis is an inspiring look at their journey from ordinary peope to Eco-Warriors, the ones that are leading the change from the front - the ones that decided that complaining was...