The following blog has been co-written by co-fellows Daraab Saleem Abbasi and...
सुकमा की विलुप्त होती मौखिक भाषाएं
परिचय सुकमा छत्तीसगढ़ राज्य का एक ज़िला है।सुकमा ज़िला के पूर्व में उड़ीसा तथा...
Insurance And Inclusivity : How Far Have We Reached ?
Five years ago, an insurance agent came to my house to convince me to get life...
30 Years Since The Devastating Killari Earthquake
MANAVLOK, the host organization I am working with has 7 sub-centers scattered...
Winters Of Bihar [A Poem]
Seasons are poetic by their very nature. They try to tell us something about...
8 Things To Keep In Mind While Preparing For A Village Meeting
It's been almost 18 months since I started identifying myself as an India...
Poshan Mela : A Celebration Of Local Recipes From Bundelkhand
On a mundane afternoon, I was going through the booklets that ASHAs and ANMs...
Beyond The Butterfly Swords : An Illustration
'Beyond the butterfly swords' is an illustration made to represent and...
Image Of A Working Woman
Concept illustration of the hard choice of a woman between career and family. Scales in hands. On one hand is happy young family of man and woman, on the other woman in business suit and briefcase. I am a 22-year-old woman who has very recently entered the world of...
A Community Engagement Program At A School In Bihar
In his book "Whose Reality Counts?", Robert Chambers highlights the significant disparities between the realities experienced by those in positions of power and those at the periphery of society, particularly in the context of India, where the divide between the rich...
Role Of Women In Indigenous Pastoral Community
In the last 6 months of working with the Van Gujjar community in Uttarakhand, I observed multiple ways in which women play a role in their unique way of living. Cattle herding The major role of the women of the house is the milking of buffaloes, especially if it is a...
Encouraging The Next Generation Of Girls and Women of Vadasar, Bhuj
The following is a conversation with Preeti ben, Sarpanch of Vadasar Gram Panchayat, Bhuj. It is transcribed from Gujarati to English. To keep it as authentic as possible, I have written it in the first person. Vadasar is a small village located in an extremely...
What’s Happening With One Nation One Ration Card Scheme
The famed One Nation One Ration, implemented since 2019, has seen little success on ground. A glimpse of our field experiences in Kerala
Forming A Multi-Layer Kitchen Garden
Traditionally, vegetables have been cultivated in household gardens that vary in size, variety, and seasonal yield while being tailored to the resources and interests of the local community. Vegetables are typically grown in pots or on rooftops and are dispersed...
Choices And Preferences Of Women In Bhuj
As a woman who has more social class privilege than a lot of other women, I have had the opportunity and advantage to take decisions for my own life. When someone asks me about my choices in terms of what I like to eat, my favorite spot to hang out, movies I like to...
The Christmas Canopy In Maheshwar, Madhya Pradesh
One of the key areas where a lot of social enterprises need support is in building their capacity for marketing. Especially if they're selling products and/or services. This includes establishing forward linkages, a basic understanding of digital marketing, the scope...
सालों बाद पास हुआ वनाधिकार का वैयक्तिक दावा
देश के अलग-अलग राज्यों में बहुत से आदिवासी समुदाय है, जो आज भी जंगल में रहते है. २०वी सदी से अपनी जमीन अपने नाम पर होने के लिए वे सालों से सरकार के साथ संघर्ष कर रहे हैं. जंगल जमीन यह आदिवासी समुदाय का सबसे बड़ा मुद्दा रहा है. यह संघर्ष क्यों ? देश की तरह ही राजस्थान...
Half Half None
The following blog has been co-written by co-fellows Daraab Saleem Abbasi and Sourav Roy, from India Fellow 2022 cohort. An old apartment building like many others that you will find in this city. A parking lot in the stilts of the ground floor and narrow staircases...
Diamond Rush: It’s All About Luck
“Kaunsa wala khadaan dekhna hai? Sarkaari ya jo naadi kinaare hai woh ?” [Which mine do you want to see, the one which the government runs or the one near the river] asks Dau, one of the team members at Project Koshika. Project Koshika is an initiative...
Learning From Wipro Partners’ Meet 2022
Education system of India - has it ever not been a hot topic? I can go as far as I can in time and recall the debates and discussions around it. Often, we talk about a topic or a word so much that it starts to lose its true essence and remains a buzzword. I was...
Financial Literacy – Necessity Of The Hour
Trigger Warning: Suicide, Death, Distress Ramesh Lal*, his wife and their four children were found dead at their home in the Udaipur district on 21st November , 2022. He was the only earning member in this six-person household. He had earlier migrated to work at a...
How I Came To Believe In The Wonders Of A Smile
I frequently discover myself being mesmerized by happy faces. 7,000 different languages are spoken throughout the world. But there is one thing we can use to connect with everybody, regardless of a language - a smile! In fact, it is one of the first expressions we...