Musing
September 2, 2017
Creating awareness through collectivization, about prevailing patriarchal-hierarchical structures and about women normalizing beliefs that define their existence as ‘inferior’ and confine them to being mother, daughter, wife, or domestic labourer, is a slow albeit rewarding journey
August 9, 2017
“Clay is just a lump unless persistent efforts transform it into a pot.” Bringing about social change is a slow and painstaking process and must be based on an inherent faith in the ability and wisdom of the people one is working with. The women of Ramkol prove this as they are shepherded by a young development professional
July 4, 2017
Promoting SHGs for credit and savings and livelihoods is one important way of empowering village women; what is equally important is for women to be able to express and share their pain and struggle in their lives. Providing for safe spaces where the women can do so is a big opportunity for healing and resolution
July 3, 2017
Realizing that SHGs are not merely credit-and-savings entities but have immense potential to be instruments of development and change is a huge discovery in the writer’s professional journey
April 14, 2017
“Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.” Richard Bach
April 13, 2017
Tasar Development Foundation (TDF) was registered on November 5, 2013, in the National Capital Territory of Delhi, under Section 25 of the Companies Act 1956 (No. 1 of 1956) without any capital
April 6, 2017
Looking back at the early days of exploring new avenues for sustainable livelihood options such as rearing tasar cocoons is an opportunity to relive the highs of the first breakthroughs and the lows of the time
April 4, 2017
The eastern regions of India— Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and, at that time, the not-yet-created Jharkhand—that PRADAN was working were the field areas where I was very deeply involved. We first began exploring tasar as an intervention to help tribal populations of the Chota- Nagpur plateau increase their options of livelihood
March 10, 2017
Recounting his initial engagement with tasar as a livelihoods option for the tribals of Chaibasa district, the author describes how over the last two decades this has become a meaningful though challenging involvement, requiring perseverance and optimism
March 8, 2017
Scouting for locations across states to launch the Tasar Project, motivating farmer families to develop plantations, garnering funds from agencies, training farmers in scientific methods of tasar rearing, and marketing the collective produce were some of the slow and steady steps in the creation of an alternative livelihood for the villagers of Bihar, Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh