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Perched in the Hills

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 […]

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Friction in Community Interventions; Hills versus Plains

This blog is a comparison on the friction existing in getting community interventions done in the plains versus the hills, primarily in terms of geography. I’m currently in Uttarakhand, working with INHERE, my NGO, on increasing millet productivity and its self consumption amongst the local communities. At the same time, being a native of Kerala […]

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Millets; Decline and Revival in the hills.

As my project was primarily about increasing millet productivity, I was under the impression that millets were staple food crops which were fairly common in Uttarakhand and that my task was just to render assistance or actions that would further their availability within households. However, the situation was drastically different than what I had presumed. […]