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मिलिए अपने समुदायों की कहानियों को आवाज़ देने वाली आदिवासी फिल्म निर्माता से
जमशेदपुर, झारखँड। बेतरतीब तरीके से उलझे बाल, गंदा चेहरा और उम्र महज सात या आठ साल। कैमरे का फोकस बर्तनों के ढेर को साफ करने वाली इस लड़की पर है। उसके नज़दीक एक ऊँची चिमनी भी दिखाई दे रही है, जो इस बात...
Pankaja Srinivasan 29 Dec 2023 12:51 PM GMT
Perur Lake, A 250-Acre Ancient Lake in Coimbatore, Is No More a Home to Birds
Coimbatore, Tamil NaduIt rained buckets one night and a vacant plot of land next to where we live in Coimbatore turned into a shallow lake. The nights thereafter were filled with an orchestra of frogs...
Pankaja Srinivasan 29 Dec 2023 6:53 AM GMT
Lessons in Journalism from Community Journalists After I Turned 60
As I bid goodbye to 2023, and look back at the three years I spent with Gaon Connection, what I want to write in my year-end piece is about its Community Journalists (CJs) and the briefings, heated...
Pankaja Srinivasan 28 Dec 2023 11:23 AM GMT
Samuday Ke Saath — Where Tribal Filmmakers Tell Stories of Their Communities
Jamshedpur, JharkhandA mop of hair comes into focus and the camera pans down to the grubby face of a little girl, no more than seven or eight years old, scrubbing a pile of vessels. In the background...
Pankaja Srinivasan 27 Dec 2023 1:37 PM GMT
Walking the Healing Path
Jamshedpur, JharkhandSarojini Goyal Panika wore her tribal identity proudly, in her traditional sari, jewellery and feathered headdress, as she took her seat along with more than 150 tribal healers...
Pankaja Srinivasan 22 Dec 2023 8:20 AM GMT
A Road Map for Traditional Healers
Jamshedpur, Jharkhand Tashi Namgyal from Ladakh, worried that healing practices that were integral to the part of the world he came from, were disappearing altogether for want of proper...
Pankaja Srinivasan 19 Dec 2023 11:35 AM GMT
Eggs-cited to run! An innovative approach to get children fit and focused
Niranjan Majhi cannot decide what he loves more. Running or enjoying the anda fry (fried egg)! The class seven student runs regularly in his school and has recently won a rich haul of seven eggs as a...
Pankaja Srinivasan 9 Nov 2023 8:27 AM GMT
Of Shakti, Sundal and Golu
As I grow older, the religiousness of festivals appeals to me less and less, but I continue to love the sense of celebration, goodwill, excitement and bustle. This morning, on Navami, we had a puja...
Pankaja Srinivasan 23 Oct 2023 8:54 AM GMT
A trip to Mahabaleshwar leads to an unexpected encounter with books, at a hillside village
Bhilar (Satara), MaharashtraA signboard emerges from the mist, with the image of an open book with a strawberry at its centre, and the words Pustakanch Gaav, written around it. A small lane meanders...
Pankaja Srinivasan 4 Oct 2023 10:12 AM GMT