Nagrik Diwas (Citizen’s Day) @ Delwara

Nagrik Diwas Seva Mandir’s work in Delwara is directly concerned with encouraging responsible citizenship and local self-governance. The journey so far has included an extensive range of activities with the citizens of Delwara through which Seva Mandir has sought to engage citizens in dialogue and action around issues of local importance. These issues have included [...]

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Sunday: from riots to unity?

Meetings all day from 11am to 9pm… Lakshmi on IRN – covered ground and had a really good rice-flour chappatti with dry (south Indian) chutney… it rocked (thank you!). Then met Arvind and talked about the seminar he wants to host – nice idea but not my area of interest or capability… I agreed to [...]

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such a big difference?

As I slowly prepare myself for the work I will be doing upon my return to Seva Mandir, I have been doing my best to get whatever I can out of google books. As elaborated in my Analtical Paper and also alluded to in an earlier post, I am finding myself deeply interested in the [...]

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social capital – possibility is in our hands

Another long-standing topic that I am finally getting around to putting on my blog… and a good follow-up for the previous blog. It struck me one day in Delwara as I found myself trying to stop two ‘community leaders’ from neighbouring communities – one a tribal (Gameti) the other a scheduled caste (Meghwal – traditionally [...]

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Digging the Narrative Approach to Civic Driven Change

I couldn’t help myself, to be honest. The opportunity to participate in the dialogue on civic driven change in Jaipur organised jointly by Context, International Cooperation (a Netherlands based social enterprise/consultancy) and CECOEDECON (a 25-year young Jaipur-based NGO), especially getting to spend some time bantering with Fons and his friends/fellow-travellers was just too good to [...]

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