Math on the Farm

As I started listing the Math activities that we have done on the campus, I reached 50 topics very fast. Here's one. We wanted to figure out the per acre yield of vegetables on our Center's organic farm. So with great enthu I took the Amazon and Nile group children ( Age 12 -14, roughly 6th and 7th grade) on the farm. This I explained to them and after a frantic search of the campus and inquiring from the adults we were able to find  ropes and an old steel tape, left on the campus by a mason. Children divided themselves...

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Naatak India Company has a page on fb

Inspired by our success of the play 'Bhanai' in Indore, we have created a page on fb. The idea is to show the work of the Naatak India Company - our theatre group. But not just this. We also want to get in touch with other theatre people/ groups who can help take this work forward. Like most of our other ventures the Naatak India Company is not a funded venture. We want to take it fwd. with the help of friends as volunteers and through the funds generated through the shows. Only if some people want to work on it on a full time basis, we will...

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A First

We are really feeling great. Kamal a student, teacher and resident of Adharshila has topped Scheduled Tribe list in the enterance exam of the School of Economics, Indore. Overall his position is 21st which too is quite commendable. He is an Adharshilite of the first batch and has been consistently getting good grades. We wish him the best and also thanks to all the supporters and friends who have seen, helped and wished Adharshila grow. We are trying to dig out an old photo of his when he came to Adharshila as an 8 yr. old. Lets se...

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Adharshila - We're on - 2012 -13

The new session of  2012 -13 at Adharshila. Its on. About 80 parents turned up at the new admission meeting on 25th June. 60 new aspirants have registered. Lets see how many turn up. The enthusiasm is less as there are'nt any rains as yet. Its difficult, going to be more difficult. For the animals its going to be really bad. If you are a farmer you do'nt have to be a crystal ball reader to see the future year, sitting on dry land with no clouds. Just wind. The uncertainty of agriculture is a real reason for people wanting to...

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The Sound Recordist at Adharshila

It started with a two line email, in October, of a film maker friend introducing the sound recordist. The mail said that the recordist wanted to take a break from regular filmy Mumbai work and was keen to work with the Adharshila children on the song cd project. The song cd project is a very old dream of taking out a cd of our sangathan and school songs sung by children and self. After many aborted promises, we had another one. So obviously we took it as another of the same and forgot it. We were quite surprised to get a call in the middle...

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The Rope Trick

Let me fly It’s amazing how little things can bring so much joy. Three months ago we brought a thick rope, usually used in the area for tying bullocks. It was doubled and hung from a tilted branch of a tree about 10 feet high. No there was no tyre at the bottom. Last time we had a tyre, the children were banging into the tree trunk. This time it was only for climbing and doing gymnastic type exercises. They loved it. Withing three days the children...

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Right now we are excited about.....The Making of the Special Issue of Yuvaniya

Taking out a magazine from a remote adivasi village. We didn’t believe it when we got internet connectivity in Sakad which barely has electricity, where hand pumps are going dry now. Sakad has all poverty indicators. But we got internet. We were in a frenzy and mailed everyone we knew about what a great achievement it was. Three years down the net we are one of the few fortunately co netted people in the country who are able to crib about not getting connectivity. We never cribbed about electricity as the joke about it is that electricity...

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