Exclusive: Retired TN Banker Sells Home to Turn Barren Land into Model Organic Farm!

Your latest dose of awesome news! Here is the latest positive news from The Better India Is this email not displaying correctly? [View it in your browser](. Here are some awesome stories of the day: [Exclusive: Retired TN Banker Sells Home to Turn Barren Land into Model Organic Farm!]( Jan 29, 2019 04:54 pm When most people around him were selling their land to invest in homes and migrate to cities, 63-year-old Senthamil Selvan made a different choice. The banker with an illustrious 36-year-old career opted for voluntary retirement, sold his home in Katpadi for Rs 40 lakh and bought a three-acre land. 150 km away from Chennai, nestled […] [More]( [Read More]( [TBI Impact: 97-Year-Old Pioneering Farmer Goes From TBI Hero To Padma Shri Winner!]( Jan 29, 2019 04:44 pm Most of us have likes, dislikes and preferences about our food, but we don’t often stop to wonder about any aspects of our fruits or vegetables, about what makes them so unique and interesting. But if we are willing to spend a little time, there is wonder and amazement everywhere, even for instance, in carrots. […] [More]( [Read More]( [The Forgotten Story of the Freedom Fighter Who Spent 14 Years in a Portuguese Prison]( Jan 29, 2019 01:55 pm While we celebrate and write about the various freedom fighters of our nation, here is one more name that we ought to remember. #ForgottenHeroes #LiberationOfGoa [More]( [Read More]( [Why Don’t We Raise Our Sons & Daughters Equally? New #SharetheLoad Ad Shows the Way]( Jan 29, 2019 12:40 pm This article has been sponsored by Ariel “You have to balance your work and your household.” “Your family’s well-being depends on you.” “Learn how to maintain the perfect home for your family.” These and so many other lessons have frequent occurrences throughout the growing years of girls across the world, more so in India. On […] [More]( [Read More]( [Remembering Raja Ramanna: The Unsung Man Who Put India on the Nuclear Power Map]( Jan 28, 2019 06:53 pm 41years ago, Indian physicist, Raja Ramanna, was invited to stay in Iraq, as a prized guest of Saddam Hussein. As expected, such an invite sent by the Iraqi dictator to a nuclear physicist, was not all that cordial and had a hidden agenda. Surprisingly, this was just four years after Dr Ramanna conducted India’s first […] [More]( [Read More]( [Exclusive: Meet The Incredible, Inspiring Odisha Chaiwala Who Just Won Padma Shri]( Jan 28, 2019 06:37 pm “For 54 years, I was a roadside tea-seller. But today, I am a Padma Shri tea-seller,” beams Odisha-based 61-year-old D Prakash Rao, who was conferred the prestigious award on Republic Day by the Government of India. How did a tea-seller win the fourth highest civilian award in the Republic of India, you ask. His beautiful […] [More]( [Read More]( [This Brave Lady’s 9-Year-Fight Stopped Convicted Criminals From Being MLAs, MPs!]( Jan 28, 2019 06:27 pm In 1919, the Southborough Committee on Franchise, which the British colonial government had set up to design a system of electoral representation for the Dominion of India, called upon Dr BR Ambedkar for his views on the matter. In his written submission to the committee, Ambedkar had listed all the essential criteria for citizenship in […] [More]( [Read More]( [Renting a House? 10 Laws That Every Tenant & Owner in India Must Know]( Jan 28, 2019 06:18 pm Renting a property can be a tricky task. When I was moving to Bengaluru, many of my friends shared several stories of their flatmates and owners, trying to warn me about the risk I was about to take. And that got me thinking—we can’t predict the personalities that we deal with during this process, but […] [More]( [Read More]( [Hyderabad Man Develops App That Helps 1,17,000 Farmers Get Better Yield!]( Jan 28, 2019 06:18 pm This article is a part of the #TechForGood series powered by Accenture in India. In December 2016, Hyderabad-based Naveen Kumar decided to travel to his hometown Hanamkonda in Warangal. Little did the founder of ‘ApnaLoanBazar,’ (an online retail loan aggregation platform) know, this trip would change his life. Speaking to The Better India, he recalls, […] [More]( [Read More]( FOLLOW US: [FACEBOOK]( | [INSTAGRAM]( | [YOUTUBE]( | [TWITTER]( Copyright © 2019 The Better India, All rights reserved. [unsubscribe from this list]( | [update subscription preferences](