Mann Ki Baat · 25 August 2024
Episode 113 featured a space start-up founded by IIT Madras friends, a village in Assam that cares for hoolock gibbons, and young people in Arunachal Pradesh making 3D-printed animal horns and teeth for traditional dress.
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Group · Tamil Nadu
A space-technology start-up founded by IIT Madras friends Suyash, Daniel, Rakshit, Kishan and Pranit. They are building satellite imaging that can see through cloud and at night, with uses from monitoring borders to helping prawn farmers check pond water quality.
As described in Mann Ki Baat
Group · Barekuri, Tinsukia, Assam
In the village of Barekuri, Moran families live alongside hoolock gibbons. They grow bananas for the apes, give them names and mark their births and deaths with rituals, and asked the authorities to fix electric wires that endangered them.
As described in Mann Ki Baat
Group · Arunachal Pradesh
Young people in Arunachal Pradesh who 3D-print animal horns and teeth from biodegradable material for traditional headgear and dress, so that wild animals need not be hunted for them.
As described in Mann Ki Baat