Role Of Women In Indigenous Pastoral Community

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

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...

Forming A Multi-Layer Kitchen Garden

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Van Gujjar Settlements In Uttarakhand

Van Gujjar Settlements In Uttarakhand

It was my third week at Living Lightly and second week at our Dehradun regional office. Somehow, it felt familiar and I was extremely excited to meet my role model Sanjeev bhai, also a founder of an architectural organization, working with local artists. I was going...

GPDP: An Instrument For Development Of Panchayats

GPDP: An Instrument For Development Of Panchayats

GPDP process being facilitated It is mandatory for the Gram Panchayats to prepare Gram Panchayat Development Plan (GPDP) for their economic development and social justice in the 73rd constitutional amendment. It has to be comprehensive and based on a participatory...