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2014

The Potato Song

You read about the wilderness library. Here is the wilderness school, where adorable tribal girls sing English songs in a village that doesn't speak English, in honor of the potato that they don't eat. [...]

June 26, 2014

Solar panels & solidarity

The adivasi women of Edamalakudi, Kerala's remotest panchayat, have formed a headload workers' group, helped light up their villages with solar power, and practice group farming in wild elephant territory. All are Muthavan tribals. Almost all are members of Kerala's extraordinary anti-poverty and gender justice movement - Kudumbashree. They are also neighbours of Chinnathambi, the keeper of the Wilderness Library. pic: Madhuraj, Mathrubhumi Weekly [...]

June 16, 2014

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