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Growing More Than Greens

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 […]

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THE UNSEEN LABOUR OF WOMEN IN THE MOUNTAINS: THE QUIET STRENGTH OF KUMAON

There is a word in Bangla “স্থিতপ্রজ্ঞা” which means a person who stays calm, balanced or steady no matter what the situation is – good or bad.  If I had to describe the woman of the mountains in one word, then it would essentially be this word.  Living in the Kumaon region of Uttarakhand has […]

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Safar, Sehat aur Sukoon

It’s been more than a month now since I’ve arrived in Pati, a quite, hilly block of Champawat, Uttarakhand. I came here as a fellow, hoping to serve- whatever that truly meant. But I think it’s Pati that’s serving me- with lessons, with warmth, with simplicity that we often forget to value.  One thing I […]