A year and a half ago when I boarded a train to Panna, I was sharing a berth...
Center For Entrepreneurship Development, Gujarat
The Center for Entrepreneurship Development (CED), Gujarat is a government-run...
Reflecting Through Rituals And Relationships
Living and working in Maheshwar feels like building a small world of my own....
Visual Arts As A Way To Connect Children To The Library
I have a feeling that my relationship with art has been changing since joining...
Strengthening Social Justice Committees Of Gram Panchayats In Kutch
According to the provisions of the Gujarat Panchayat Act, 1993, Social Justice...
The Cycle Of Undernutrition
A few weeks back, my roommate and I had an argument about the taste of food....
How Can We Improve The Education System In Rural India?
The highest pupil dropout rates in southern rural Rajasthan begin in 8 grade....
A Brief Introduction To Crafts – From Kachchh, Gujarat
The floor, the once-blue drums, tables and chairs; are all covered in a...
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
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...
What’s Happening With One Nation One Ration Card Scheme
The famed One Nation One Ration, implemented since 2019, has seen little success on ground. A glimpse of our field experiences in Kerala
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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 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...