Open wells and society: The well has been celebrated as a place for social interactions, encouraging people to share their daily lives with each other while they draw water. At times, a sight of relief for the farmer who has toiled hard or the traveller who has covered great distance, and also an assurance inContinue reading “Open well in a river, the story of Semara”
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Ahmedabad City WaterWalks – Of Water, Birds and Beings
(This is a guest blog by�Dipani Sutaria and Renu Desai with inputs from�Mansi Shah and Vrushti Mawani, who are taking the lead for the Ahmedabad leg of our City Water Walks initiative) Maps and graphics by Mansi Shah.
Ganga: Moving Upstream – Second Leg
Rewind: Last June, as part of our�Moving Upstream�series of projects,�Siddharth�started walking along the river Ganga from Gangasagar, West Bengal. Moving from the ocean to the glaciers at 14000 feet, the attempt was�to present a very personal narrative of the Ganga and stories of the people who affect and are affected by it. This was�the firstContinue reading “Ganga: Moving Upstream – Second Leg”
City Water Walks Mumbai
The first edition of the Mumbai walks saw us visiting Powai lake as permissions for our visit planned for Vihar lake didn�t come through. Conducted with the support of�Sanctuary Asia�and led by Dr. Parvish Pandya, we learnt a great deal about the situation in Mumbai. The History Mumbai is a city that was found inContinue reading “City Water Walks Mumbai”
Walking from Varanasi to Allahabad: Moving Upstream
This is a guest blog by Ankit Batheja. He had recently joined our ongoing Moving Upstream project for a week and walked alongside Siddharth from Varanasi to Allahabad. The journey would have taken merely 2 hours, each bus and auto passing through was a big temptation to end this exertion, but making it a 5Continue reading “Walking from Varanasi to Allahabad: Moving Upstream”
City Walks – An Introduction
(This is a guest post by Akshay Roongta) Hello! As I begin writing this post, Siddharth has just hit the road again after a brief hiatus. He’s making his way through Bihar at the moment. The idea of this post, is to introduce city walks, a format that we’re developing to create a tangible wayContinue reading “City Walks – An Introduction”
The Story of an Island – Part 2
Read Part 1 here: The Story of an Island. Walking through the island i came across a hand pump in front of a mud house in the village of Idrakpur, filled my�LifeStraw�and took a sip. My confidence in�LifeStraw�s ability to clean the water made me drink it, but not before the pungent odour reminded meContinue reading “The Story of an Island – Part 2”
The Story of an Island
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The questions kept coming in like a continuous ambush, curiosity further aroused with each answer. The crowd thinned out, leaving behind the keen ones to further continue the conversation but sometimes it just gathers a bigger set of people to listen. While i waited for the ferry to cross over to the island of Indrakpur,Continue reading “The Story of an Island”
What it Means to Walk Across India
Smiles disappear, conversations die out, huddles form and eyes widen with amazement, such is the welcome that i receive often. Welcome to my journal of personal experiences about what it means to walk across India, with as weird a face as mine, a bright orange ruck sack that weighs around 15 kilograms and a handfulContinue reading “What it Means to Walk Across India”