City girl meets village chacha, understands life is more than what meets the eye…
Redefining My Idea Of A Village
My father grew up in a village named Purana in Jagatsinghpur district of...
Last Mile Delivery of Products & Services
As a part of training program at India fellow, I got an opportunity to visit...
Looking Back and Ahead – From Mizoram To Rajasthan
Having spent my early childhood in a small village of Kamalanagar in Chawngte,...
Life, And The Patterns in Which it Unfolds
Today, I have a little too much of motivation to wake up, dress up, show up in...
Plato And Cave – Valuable Lessons From The Allegory
In The Republic by Plato, he analyses a story of a group of people born and...
We Need A Balance In Stories About Indian Villages
A single story is one where the same thing gets told over and over again about...
Not My Cup Of Chai
“One’s destination is never a place but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry...
Turning The Table
"दबाव बहुत है। हम तो कोशिश कर रहे हैं।", Nagma said. Nagma is a middle-aged health worker in the primary health centre (PHC) of Nichli Badi. She has been overseeing the PHC functions in absence of a doctor for the past one and a half month. A soft-spoken woman, she...
Learning Empathy
I walked into the village, excited about getting to see something new, enthusiastic about meeting new people from different walks of life, all set to explore how majority of our country's population lives. What I was faced with was a wandering naked three year old boy...