Monday & Tuesday: learning from drama and women

Monday and Tuesday were spent in Delwara, mainly working with members of the women’s group and some women’s mohalla level representatives preparing plays on stories of change. Three mohalla (neighbourhood) committees had come together – all of them amongst the poorest and traditionally most excluded sections of society: the Bhil tribals, the Bhoi (vegetable farmers), [...]

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exit interviews

Just recently one of my housemates gave in his resignation, no longer willing to work at Seva Mandir as a variety of frustrations had built up to the point where he didn’t want to be here any more. In traditional Seva Mandir style this decision was subject to extensive debate with other housemates. This entailed [...]

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the (almost) 1 month retreat

I was excited to be heading back to England, with a whole bunch of things spread out across the roughly 1 month break I took from Udaipur from mid-June to mid-July. When I arrived in London I took the tube from Heathrow to Arsenal where my brother came and picked me up. We had dinner [...]

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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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drawing to a close

The term has now ended. Officially. Tomorrow my parents will come to Brighton and we will spend a couple of days together, talking, walking, looking, eating, laughing and connecting. After that, I will be heading to London where I will, with fingers crossed, successfully brave the process of getting my new work visa for India. [...]

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What I’ve been doing

The way that can be described is not the absolute way…
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rights or responsibilities

Well, miraculously the essay slipped out without too much anguish Actually, the writing process was a really good exercise for helping me to digest a whole load of reading materials that I have found rather insightful. Now with that behind me I have got my senses set on the upcoming ‘Analytical Paper’ that [...]

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essay writing

Right now I am supposed to be writing my first assessed essay of the term. It’s Sunday afternoon and the essay is due at 8.45 on Monday morning. Go figure!
Well, in any case, the title is: “Contribution of an inter-disciplinary approach to studying and/or practicing development.”
It’s quite an experience putting together my first assessed essay [...]

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A sense of belonging

N.B. This piece has been taken from my reflective writing journal and should be understood as tentative and incomplete
After our group session this morning [actually on October 28th], which surfaced many questions for me, I had a good long (much appreciated and really valuable) chat with one of my co-learners… It’s hard to [...]

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Fragmentation and Healing

N.B. This piece has been taken from my reflective writing journal and should be understood as tentative and incomplete
It seems that we are all here in order to make sense of things. We look into books, we look into each other, searching for what is out there, what is right – and maybe [...]

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