Aval Vikatan Award.
Roopa and Eashwaramma collect for the village.
PaalaGuttaPalleBags, JeevaniMilk
'Have wings, will fly', given that space to rise.
Replicable sustainable processes. For Livlihoods. For Nourishment.
#KrishnammalJagannathan, 92 years. The greatest among the awardees here.
Daughter, "Why were we called on the same stage as her ?", in genuine wonder.
Krishnammal Jagannathan 🙏
"I got my aoointment order as a teacher, and I wondered if this was what I would spend my life doing, was this all life was for ... i tore it up, took a train, and went to Vinoba Bhave ."
Between 1953 and 1967, the couple played an active role in the Bhoodhan movement spearheaded by Vinoba Bhave, through which about 4 million acres (16,000 km2) of land were distributed to thousands of landless poor across several Indian states]
After the burning of 42 Dalits including women and children in the Kilvenmani massacre in Nagapattinam district[ following a wage-dispute with the landlord[3] in 1968, the couple started to work in Thanjavur District in Tamil Nadu to concentrate on land reform issues.
(Krishnammals award speech)
" The purpose of the organisation was to bring "the landlords and landless poor to the negotiating table, obtain loans to enable the landless to buy land at reasonable price and then to help them work it cooperatively, so that the loans could be repaid".
Although the initial response was lukewarm with banks unwilling to lend and the high rates of stamp duty, Jagannathan managed to go on with the cause. By 2007, through LAFTI, she had transferred 13,000 acres (53 km2) to about 13,000 families.
Through LAFTI, she also conducted workshops to allow people, during the nonagricultural season, to support themselves through entrepreneurial efforts like mat weaving, tailoring, plumbing, carpentry, masonry, computer education and electronics. LAFTI would gain such popularity that later even the Government of India would implement LAFTI's approach to increase the peaceful transfer of land."
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