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Nagrik Diwas (Citizen’s Day) @ Delwara

Posted in co-creation, collaboration, community development, delwara, democracy, education on August 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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?

Posted in Udaipur, collaboration, conversations, democracy, reconciliation on August 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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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Wisdom in the Rickshaw

Posted in democracy, questioning development, random perspectives, wisdom on May 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

While I was on my way to visit a friend in Delhi after a conference on Citizenship and Governance (organised by PRIA), I found myself on a rather long rickshaw ride. I decided to start up some casual banter with the driver, an old man from a village in Uttar Pradesh. After some small talk [...]

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