by India Fellow Alumni | 5 Oct, 2022 | Fellow Musing
Cockfighting is an ancient spectator sport. There is evidence that cockfighting was a pastime in the Indus Valley civilization. Where two cocks will fight against each other until one of them will die. It started in Tamil Nadu, India. Nowadays the practise is...
by India Fellow Alumni | 30 Sep, 2022 | Field Stories
Due to the Naxal movement in 2005 (Salwa Judum), Sukma is one of the highly militarized zones in the country. Every 5KM, you find a military base camp. This part of India is also known as ‘The Red Corridor’. The conflict between the Indian Army and...
by India Fellow Alumni | 26 Aug, 2022 | First Immersion
District Sukma is located on the southern tip of Chhattisgarh. It was carved out of Dantewada district on 16th January 2012 and got its existence as a new district. Sukma is the last district of Chhattisgarh and it shares the border with the states of Odisha, Andhra...
by India Fellow Alumni | 14 Apr, 2022 | Fellow Musing
By the end of the farming activities in the month of February, everyone around me in Sukma was talking about the mela (local fair) of Ramaram. They all seemed to be excited about it. When I asked my colleagues from Shiksharth about the mela, they all reminisced about...
by India Fellow Alumni | 31 Mar, 2022 | Field Stories
A school in Konta, Chhattisgarh As an India Fellow, I have been working with Shiksharth, in Sukma, Chhattisgarh. All this while, I’ve been listening a lot of stories about Konta, a block in Chhattisgarh. Local people here have been following their own traditions...
