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SIMPLE LIVING: A sample bulletproof jacket which villagers in India have made from wheat.

SIMPLE LIVING: A sample bulletproof jacket which villagers in India have made from wheat.

Villagers make bulletproof vest from wheat

"Simple living and high thinking" - That was Mahatma Gandhi's formula for success. He also said, "India lives in its villages". Now, the President of India has awarded innovative villagers, who have made things like a bullet proof jacket, made from wheat.

REALITY STRIKES: Global warming is a grim and harsh reality for thousands of villagers in coastal Orissa.

Rising sea chases Orissa villagers

Global warming is no longer just the stuff of dire warnings. Its a grim reality for thousands of villagers in Orissa.

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/rising-sea-chases-orissa-villagers/39696-3.html

JOINT EFFORT: If the people of India and Pakistan keep talking to each other, relationships will improve.

India, Pak develop villages jointly

For the first time an official Indo-Pak Joint Working Group will be meeting first in Delhi and then in Lahore.

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/india-pak-develop-villages-jointly/36322-3.html

SEZ DILEMMA: Village Siddan (left) wants SEZ, while Chita (right) resists hand-over of land to govt.

2 villages: One SEZ yes, other no

One village feels left out because it has been denied an SEZ and another resists giving land for SEZs in Punjab.

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/2-villages-one-sez-yes-other-no/33131-3.html

THE GREAT DIVIDE: Urban villages and suburbs share an uneasy equation that has become even shakier after Nithari.

Haves and have-nots: the great divide

The relation between big homes and small huts is one of interdependence but post-Nithari, everything is changing.

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/haves-and-havenots-the-great-divide/30371-3.html

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