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It is really sad , how a brilliant Ayurveda-led milk programme for school children is caught in the Dalit
The battle between so-called Dalit activists and Ayurveda- led nutritional milk in schools in TN is a classic example of how well meaning and serious experiments in indigenous nutrition and healing are getting caught in the crossfire between so-called left and right political and ideological positions.
We today need to see beyond Left and Right , Caste , the games of Big Pharma while encouraging and nurturing the ecology of indigenous and hybrid knowledge systems to work out real-on-the-ground solutions that give results .
For me that means the integrity of the people involved and their history , their contexts and quality of experience over the years .
If we cannot stand for good people across Ideological or Social or Knowledge Systems , then we will remain with only fake people with fake positions .
The diversity will be only digital .
We need to quickly jump to the Post-Digital Age , where trust in good people is re-established .
It's just that simple .
The post below is by Aparna Krishnan , a software engineer who left a successful career and has been working for years with Dalit children and women in Southern Andhra Pradesh .
The Ayurvedic doctor doing this innovation is Dr. P.L.T. Girija , who is a Syrian Christian and a scholar from JNU who turned to Ayurveda and runs one of the most reputable Ayurvedic centres in Tamilnadu .
You can read her journey of truths and passion of Ayurveda in the Hindu article link below :
Her website is :
From Aparna's Facebook post , 2018.
"No other intervention has proved this effective. In Paalaguttapalle, boiled and sauted channa (chickpea) was given for years to the children to address their 'protien deficiency', as advised by an allopathic doctor.
Other similar interventions were also tried. None were substantially effective. But Milk with ashwagandhadhi churnam and loha bhasmam showed excellent results in a month, and the children have stayed well over the last four years."
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