Turning Sacred Flowers Into Incense Sticks
From the video: “Millions of Hindu worshippers start every day with a ritual offering of flowers. Temples dump those flowers into the Ganges, adding harmful chemicals and pes
From Banana Plants to Menstrual Pads
From the video: “One in four women in India don’t have the supplies they need for their period. One startup (Saathi Pads) is turning farm waste into biodegradable pads
Producing Colorful Gulal for Holi
From the video: “One of the most important parts of the celebration of Holi, a Hindu holiday celebrated internationally, is the color. Revelers throw hundreds of varieties of
Attar: India’s Natural Perfumes
The city of Kannauj is considered to be India’s perfume capital, and this video shows how natural perfumes (“attar”) are produced using a steam distillation method th
