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What do coconuts have to do with engineers and wells?

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Community knowledge, connection and stewardship of a place go hand-in-hand. Listening and  building connection is critical not just for the place but also for a sustainable planet I had never heard of a fasal chakra. Nor a village engineer. Neither about halma, swaraj shala and gram swabhiman diwar. And the most counter-intuitive and rational-defying thing […]

Rainmatter on the Road: A ‘sense of the house’ in Jharkhand

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Below is Vikas’ account as he travels to three regions in Jharkhand and asks residents about their relationship to their ‘home’, pokes at the changing aspirations of rural India, and wonders if a transition from interventions to responses might be more meaningful.  Indian villages are a treasure-trove of resources, cultures and skills, traditionally passed down […]