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सुनो… कुछ लिखा है तुम्हारे लिए 🌄 सुना है लोग तुम तक पहुँचने के लिएबड़े-बड़े सपने,कई योजनाएँ बनाते हैं, पर क्या उन्हें पता है…तुम तक पहुँचने के लिए सिर्फ रास्ते ही नहीं होते… तुम सुंदर हो,कठिन भी,और गहरे भी। तुम्हारे हर मोड़ पर साँस ठहर जाती है, और हौसला बार-बार परखा जाता है। नीचे से […]

It still feels like magic. I know this decision required a great deal of courage, to leave my first job that gave me financial stability, independence, and yes, sometimes stress too. Walking away from that comfort was not easy. Yet, this decision has become the stepping stone in my journey towards becoming a social entrepreneur. […]

The more I read criminal law, the more I realise how fragile balance is. On one side, there are survivors of sexual violence who already face stigma, disbelief, and social pressure. On the other side, there is a foundational principle of criminal law: the accused is presumed innocent until proven guilty. Sometimes these two ideas […]

As this is one of my first blogs, it is important to state that I am not familiar in writing them and hence this will feel like a sort of excerpt from my journal describing the initial days as I began this fellowship journey. Here we go– It  would be right to say that the journey […]

Narayanpur is the land of the free. Or was . Everything here is so full of nature , full of potential, of future possibilities, full of rich historically informed culture and practices. But it is hard to reach here. It is like an island. You get down at Raipur airport and ask the taxi waalas […]

Food often arrives on a plate without revealing the long journey behind it. In the hilly villages of Pati, tucked deep into the Kumaon region, small kitchen gardens are bringing that journey back into view, transforming empty patches of land into spaces of learning. Here, adolescents are slowly learning that food is not just nourishment […]

I work with Shiksharth in Sukma, deep in the forests of Chhattisgarh, as part of the SWAR Fellowship. Along with an incredible team, I’ve been working on Menstrual Health Management (MHM) identifying and training Menstrual Health Champions who will become voices of change in their tribal villages. Our project began with a baseline survey in […]

When I first began my journey as a Swar Fellow, I carried a mix of excitement and uncertainty. I came with my training, my notebook, my frameworks, and the belief that I was ready to understand the community. But community work, I realised, does not begin with knowledge. It begins with surrender with letting go […]

May 27, 2025. I still remember that date-my first day in the field. Everything felt foreign: the geography, the society, the communities, even the way people looked at me. I was an outsider holding a clipboard, armed with theories and frameworks from the classroom,thinking I knew what “development” meant. I didn’t know anything. This moment […]

Recently, I found out something new about myself, the fact that I’ve become afraid of phone calls. I am engaged in an initiative at present regarding the construction of a Common Facility Centre on rice value addition. The rationale behind such an initiative is to support farmers in improving their livelihood and increasing their incomes. […]