Abhiram: The Unsung Hero Of Agragamee

Abhiram: The Unsung Hero Of Agragamee

In 1996, I got a task from my night school teacher. He had asked me to write about what I wanted to see in Kashipur after 10 years. I wrote about roads, markets, and public transport. In 2006, I saw the changes. – Abhiram Jhodia, a senior staff member at Agragamee,...

The Female Health Tripod At AMRIT Clinics

The Female Health Tripod At AMRIT Clinics

Pushpa, one of the health workers counselling Anjana on five food groups with the help of a flip book Phulwari Workers Phulwaris are creches located deep within the rural regions of South Rajasthan. Each Phulwari serves about 20-15 children below the age of 5. The...

Trupti Kitchen : A Community Kitchen For Senior Citizens

Trupti Kitchen : A Community Kitchen For Senior Citizens

MArathwada NAVnirman LOKayat 'MANAVLOK', the organization I am part of, is working on myriad thematic areas like watershed management, health, education, women empowerment, disaster relief, agriculture, and livelihoods. Think of a thematic area and I bet MANAVLOK has...

Kitchen Garden Initiative By Koshika

Kitchen Garden Initiative By Koshika

Back in August 2021, I was reading The Obesity Code. The author, Dr. Jason Fung, prescribes an intermittent fasting diet, which restricts eating to a fixed schedule. Halfway through the book, I realized that part of the problem why intermittent fasting won’t seem to...

Digital Mobility In Panna, Madhya Pradesh

Digital Mobility In Panna, Madhya Pradesh

Sajan Bai (on the left) glares as I (on the right) download WhatsApp on her phone The popularity of smart phones has radically changed the way people communicate and gain information. With a single device, one can browse a random question on Google, text a classmate...

मिर्ची की खेती बन गई फायदे की खेती

मिर्ची की खेती बन गई फायदे की खेती

पन्ना टाइगर रिज़र्व मध्य प्रदेश के पन्ना जिले में स्थित है। इस रिज़र्व के अंतर्गत पन्ना के बहुत से गांव भी आते हैं। टाइगर रिज़र्व के नियमों की वजह से यहाँ के किसानों को खेती करने में बहुत सी समस्याओं का सामना करना पड़ता है। रिज़र्व में संरक्षित वन्यजीव खेती को बहुत...

Many Cures For The Same Disease

Access to healthcare is a necessity to all communities. However, the diagnoses, treatment and recovery vary as widely as the communities themselves. To aid a human body heal itself is considered a noble cause, and the need for it is only increasing with the population...

A Model Sarpanch And Red Bindis

A Model Sarpanch And Red Bindis

“Where do women and girls want to go and what do they want?” Until the day I visited a Sarpanch for the first time, as a part of my field visits, I realized that I had not given much thought to the little dots that we like to place on our foreheads as ‘bindis’. For...

Contemplating Child-centric Education In Rural Ranthambore

Contemplating Child-centric Education In Rural Ranthambore

Travelling from New Delhi, I was welcomed to Gramin Shiksha Kendra (GSK) office campus in Sawai Madhopur with the quintessentially autumn scent of shiulis, and a reminder of what fresh air on my face and in my lungs ought to feel like. Notably, with the nearby roads...

From Waste To Weave

From Waste To Weave

In the menace of plastic in Bhuj, lies livelihoods of many weavers of Kutch. Upcycling plastic has proven to not only be a livelihood initiative, but has morphed into a culture of love, protection and well-being of the planet.