Is Just A Ban On Plastic Enough? It’s the 2080s and you’re sitting in the...
That Feeling Of Liberation : In Kalahandi
When was the last time you felt most liberated? This question that was thrown...
आम जनता के प्रति सरकारी बाबुओं की जवाबदेही
सूचना का अधिकार कानून के बाद राजस्थान की जनता जवाबदेही कानून की मांग कर रही...
The Mela of Ramaram
By the end of the farming activities in the month of February, everyone around...
Mera Ghar Kahan Hai? Asks A Domestic Violence Warrior
The world in front of her eyes came crumbling down with the news of her...
Privilege Check: From Mirrors To Education
An integral part of being an India Fellow is learning to lead a modest life by...
Wrapping To Save A New-Born!
Winter days with the sun out bright are among my favourite days. It only gets...
The Rituals Of (Dis)possession
Goddess Kishori's temple in Khamri, where the ritual of bandhej takes place...
Dialogue And Democracy: Understanding Theatre Of The Oppressed
Paulo Friere was a renowned Brazilian educator and philosopher. As a leading advocate of critical pedagogy that views teaching as a political act, indistinct from issues of social justice and democracy, predicated on fostering agency, empowering learners and...
What Being Restricted Taught Me About Empowerment
As I work with Shram Sarathi in Gogunda block of Udaipur, Rajasthan, if I have to talk about the most epic ways of local commute, I'll tell you this... The field areas, though accessible through public transport, still require one to navigate a few kilometres on foot,...
Education And Internet
While assisting a class 10 child studying in an IB School, I learned that his school does not have textbooks. Notebooks are used only for Science, Maths, and Art. Kids carry iPads/Laptops and mobile phones to school. Free wifi is provided. Students borrow type-C and...
Ek Garam Chai Ki Pyaali Ho
As a part of India Fellow, we are meant to fundraise for the activities and learnings of the cohort. It is to take ownership as an equal stakeholder and to also pick up fundraising as an essential skill set in the development sector. Here, I write about a story from 5...
Is Environment A Labour Issue?
Early last month, I watched Seaspiracy, Kip Anderson's second project to shed light upon a new dimension of the human-made environmental crisis. It's a documentary film that takes the viewer into the literal and metaphorical depths of the crisis unfolding at the seas,...
The Bus Ride To Empowerment
As a fellow, a part of my work at WISE is to build the entrepreneurial collective of women weavers. Among other things, this entails investing my efforts in a network that can be leveraged for market generation. One of the ways of achieving this is to facilitate...
Kumbhars Of Bangalore, Off The Wheel
When you taste Chai in a Kulhad, you are deluged by the smell of the earthen pot. As a bit of the tea soaks into the clay, the interaction of both the flavours becomes heavenly. Chai in Kulhad is always special to me! Over a cup of tea, my friend and I started our...
Failing And Moving From Making Agriculture Work For Rural Youth
Born and brought up in Delhi, I had a fascination to get an exposure to the grassroots of India and see the rural realities in its raw form. To pursue this, I joined India Fellow, a social leadership program. As a part of that, I was placed with Shramik Bharti, an...
Leisure And Entertainment In The Villages Of Himachal Pradesh
बाड़ी का मतलब होता है घर, और ये है कंडबाड़ी। पालमपुर की हरी वादियों में बसा एक गाँव, जहां फूलों से टकराके महकती है हवा। जहां चाय के बाग़ानों से घिरे हुए, आप दूर खड़ी धौलाधार की चोटियों को निहारते रह जाते हो। जहां कब सूरज निकलेगा और कब होगी बारिश, इसकी खबर किसी को...
मेरे गांव को आशा दीदी की आस है
बात मझोली गांव की है। पन्ना, मध्य प्रदेश की तहसील मुख्यालय अमानगंज से करीब 15 से 20 किलोमीटर की दूरी पर बसा हुआ है यह गांव। यह पन्ना जिले में स्थापित टाइगर रिज़र्व के अन्तर्गत आता है। आज तक इस गांव में आशा कार्यकर्ता की नियक्ति नहीं हुई है, जिस वजह से यहाँ के लोगो को...
Responding To Covid-19 In Rural India: An overview Of Our Approach In Southern Rajasthan
Note: This is a version of a document presenting the strategy of Aajeevika Bureau, Basic Healthcare Services (BHS) and Shram Sarathi, working in Southern Rajasthan. I wrote this along with my mentor Dr. Sanjana Mohan Brahmawar, co-founder and director at BHS. ...
We Couldn’t Take Our Masks Off, We Couldn’t Drink Water
Picture from the archives of Setu Abhiyan - Urban team It is a cold December evening and the chilly wind is blowing the plastic shelter of the outside of the house, back and forth. Seated on the plastic rug fashioned from old 20kg cement bags, I make my notes under...
Those Who Fall Between The Cracks – Where Do They Go?
This lockdown was supposed to be different. Wasn’t everything planned to seem much more normal than last year? There are no heartbreaking images of migrants walking back hundreds of kilometres or those of workers stuck at inter-state bus terminals waiting to go back...
Ghost Towns Of Banswara, Rajasthan
Migration for work is etched into the identity of several districts that fall within the perimeter of Southern Rajasthan's tribal belt. Hundreds of private buses ply each day, carrying thousands across borders to cities like Ahmedabad, Surat and Mumbai. A range of...