Yasaswini is an educator and writer living in Assam. Her experiments with sustainable living have resulted in a crowded, messy terrace garden and an annoyed domestic helper. Her articles have appeared in The Hindu, Business Line, Women's Web and Mint Lounge.
This is the second article about modern cloth diapers. Read the first one here. So you have tried a few all-in-one (AIO) cloth diapers and are comfortable with using them. And yet, it is time for the monsoons, the season for dampness. If laundry takes forever to dry, your shiny new Ikat print cloth diapers are…
I take my toddler to ride his bike at a small community centre near our house. One Monday morning, however, the place was a festering dump. Huge garbage bins were overflowing and there were big black bags that reeked of rotting, cooked food. My ever-curious child went straight towards the garbage bags. They were lying…
This is a matter-of-fact recital about 2 strangers. Doing very strange things. Like protecting the earth. Stranger number 1 is a pani-puri wala in Bhubaneshwar, Orissa. He rolls his golgappa trolley in every evening for a few hours and stays put outside Mehers, a famous sari shop in the city of temples. He mixes and…