Saturday, November 6, 2010

Article in Tehelka Magazine Nov 06, 2010 issue

Green Revitalisers
How do you bring back butterflies to a brown arid wasteland in one of the driest districts of the country? Ask Bablu Ganguly and his wife, Mary Vattamattam.
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Thursday, September 9, 2010

Manipadma Jena in ‘IPS News’

Buoyed by Growing Market, More Farmers Go Organic
He had dedided to grow watermelons this summer on his one-acre plot, and so Veera Narayana went about  preparing the arid red earth by first ploughing it and then lighting fires in the furrows.
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Sunday, July 25, 2010

De Michele RODET in his blog

Start and restart, constantly

HUMANIT Y IN DIALOGUE . During these three days, we expose, we experiment, we debate and feasting, sometimes humorous, but always with concern for humanity to match in question and issues relating to policy.
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Ranjini Sivaswamy in ‘The Better India’

Where the earth meets the sky – Timbaktu Collective
This is the story of a land that was at one time lying ravaged, drought stricken and forsaken. It was a committed revolution led by a couple, Bablu Ganguly and Mary Vattamattam, which has now transformed this land into an agro forest habitat. The unproductive soil was rejuvenated, rain water was harvested, trees were planted, crops were cultivated and the entire land blossomed.