Two Days With Eames Bhai

This post is about the visit of Eames Demetrios, a geographer at large.. He is a designer and also makes documentaries. The post has been written by children of Nile and Octopus groups at Adharshila - Imla, Chetana, Revali, Anil, Pushpendra, Sunil, Patidar, Madhosingh, Sarang, Mahesh, Krishna, Sunita, Suman, Lelsingh, Pavan.On 16th November Eams Bhai came to our Learning Centre for two days from Los Angeles in North America. We met him for the first time. He came in a car from Indore.He didn't speak Hindi. Eams Bhai spoke English very fast.Eams...

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Organic Tomatoes and Shit in a Bucket

Post your summary hereWhat's on in Adharshila - Organic tomatoes, Election campaign, music group, Greeting cards, Shitting in a bucket...So what are tomatoes doing in this blog ? these days many of us are working on the organic tomato/brinjal plot. Though due to my kidney stones i will not be able to eat any of this but it is great to wee them grow. The plants are almost two months old now. The best plant has about 60 tomatoes on it. We are feeding them Jeevamrit, mulch, ash and cow urine., and spraying pesticide made of five to six different...

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Shikshan Samwaad

Shikshan Samwaad3rd – 4th – 5th March 2008Adharshila Learning CentreVenue : Village Sakad, P.O. : Chatli, Via Sendhawa, District Badwani, Madhya Pradesh.Dear friendsThis year the Adharshila Learning Centre is completing ten years. We started working with children after working in an adivasi organisation for about fifteen years. The main aim of starting this experimental journey, was to see, what role can education play in people’s struggles and movements for social and political change.During our work in the sangathan we experienced that the educated...

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