The Party is Over.

A short diary of what's going on at Adharshila. We are back in Sakad lazily to work. On coming back we realised that this hot November is full for us. Fighting with the neighbor over the boundary of our land trying to collect 25 quintals of fodder for our cow's family of 5 from the people who are growing wheat by taking electricity from our campus connection obviously by bribing the lineman - the official for the electricity dept. Also there are going to be two three workshops with children - one to participate in a research with a Norwegian...

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In Memory of Tantiya Bhil

The second annual Tantiya Mama Kabbadi Tournament was hosted by Adharshila last Sunday. Eight teams of adults from surrounding villages (including one from Adharshila) battled in the dust in three rounds to select the best. The winning team from Sawarda village won the first prize of Rs.2000/- and the Devli team got the second prize of Rs.1000/- . Kabbadi's traces its long history back to royal armies that used the game to encourage unity and sportsmanship. Last year we agreed that those ideals were as relevant in our area today as at any time...

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Help A Child Learn Computers?

Dear friends,As you know Adharshila has been striving to give high quality, relevant education to tribal children for the past eleven years.Though we have managed significant progress in developing infrastructural facilities, constant electric supply continues to elude us. Due to this crippling problem, we are not able to do the documentation and curriculum development work we hope will make our approach permanent and shareable, even though we now...

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