iVolunteer Blog - everything about volunteeringI am not going to go into the history of the city, because I think I still have a lot to read about it to write about it. So this blog will be more about the city I have lived in, and my experience so far. Let me start from the beginning. So when I […]
Indian spirituality and religion are very deep, diverse, and layered, and in Uttarakhand, it’s at another level, as it is named Devbhumi. Here, the religious practices are very much a part of daily lives; wherever there is a source of water, there is a temple. It’s a common thing here to find a big or […]
“The capacity to withstand or to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.” This is the bookish definition of the word resilience. But I believe that the definition of resilience is different for different people, based on what they are striving for, what they are fighting for, and what their journey has been so far, and how […]
Marriages are a very celebrated event in life all over the world, but marriages in India are way more than just a marriage and a celebration. It’s a festival (though there are some changes in the situation now). So, Tuloni Biya literally translates to “Small Marriage”; it’s a way to celebrate a girl’s first menstruation, […]
There are quite a few things here in Uttarakhand (especially in the Kumaon region) which I really like, one of them are the toilets here. I got a good chance of interaction with the community, to see their lives from a close, not initially, but gradually I noticed that, no matter how small or big […]
Everyone has experienced FOMO (Fear of Missing Out), which comes when you see that others are moving ahead and you are missing out on opportunities at some point in your life. But have you ever felt bad about being in a good situation? It happened when I was conducting outreach to expand the Hamari Bakhli […]
Imagine this situation: you are traveling to a completely new place and do not know much about it. Then, you take a shared taxi to another place, which is also unfamiliar, in search of a hotel for the night. The weather is not in your favor. Finally, you reach this second new place, but it […]
A year ago, if anyone asked me where I am going to work ? I would have said anything, but not crochet for sure. I entered this fellowship with the mindset that I would be placed in a small, remote village with limited access to electricity and poor road connectivity. What I found was different […]
It is the month of June 2025, and monsoon is at its peak. Landslides have become frequent in the news, and I am in Pithoragarh conducting a survey of Udhyam Entrepreneurs. For this, my organisation gave me a list of the funded entrepreneurs, 90% of whom were men. And out of those 10% which had […]
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