Early last month, I watched Seaspiracy, Kip Anderson's second project to shed...
The Bus Ride To Empowerment
As a fellow, a part of my work at WISE is to build the entrepreneurial...
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...
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...
Those Who Fall Between The Cracks – Where Do They Go?
This lockdown was supposed to be different. Wasn’t everything planned to seem...
Ghost Towns Of Banswara, Rajasthan
Migration for work is etched into the identity of several districts that fall...
What It Means To Work With A Community
We were in Sillet, an isolated village that has no electricity, no telecom...
Sorry Harry, But It’s Time We Talk About The Potters Of Khavda
In the Harry Potter universe, magic is the heart and soul of the wizarding...
Letters To Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi : Part 3
Dear Gandhi Have you heard about the three bricklayers? Before I tell you their story, let me give you the context on why I am writing about these buggers to you. I guess you might have experienced the thing that I am sharing while you were leading these humans’...
Materialism
If words had reputations, then ‘materialism’ would be the poor, misunderstood sod walking home alone at each night after being turned down by every girl at the bar. And yet, I call myself a materialist – and proudly so! I come from arguably the most spiritual country...
Love
Love is in the air at India Fellow! Indeed, not even my previous fellowship can match the rate of romance here. We really ought to use this as a branding tool – "Join India Fellow! Get a girlfriend/boyfriend!" I imagine we’d have to hire some extra staff just to...
Warping Time
Warping time is equally an old concept as much as it is new. Modern times' way of warping time is quite limited in its scope, and does not really enter into our lives as much as the old concept used to and can. Their purposes are widely different. The new way of...
Letters To Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi : Part 2
Subject - Organization, Ideology And Work Mohan Bhai, Did you hear the term social enterprise yet? This concept of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship has received much attention since late 70's. What is it that is so explicitly social about any...
Consistency Of Jams And Projects
Consistency of a jam is nothing but a measure of its fluidity. Right consistency yields the utmost satisfaction to the palate. Two raw materials are responsible for the consistency, namely pectin and sugar. Pectin is more known of the two contributors. Ask people...
Letters To Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi : Part 1
Subject - Death Of Swaraj Dear Gandhi, Today we visited an Adivasi community in a village called Phala amidst the hills of Udaipur. The idea was to understand the lifestyle of the villagers by interacting with them. The village had 13 mohallas, the one we visited was...
Chandus Dairies
Not a typo. I read an entire manual on how the self-help group (SHG) federation of the Khed taluka works. A bunch of women form an SHG. A bunch of SHGs form a cluster. A bunch of clusters form a federation. The federation provides financial and social services to all...
Red Teeth, High Cheek Bones, Happy Consumers
I will go backwards telling about my experience of the past week. Moving in this direction, this article would include my ultimate days - training at Udaipur with co-fellows and penultimate days – initial days with Aajeevika Bureau where i am placed as an India...