Day by day in the village.

The Strength of the People of the Village

The Village Water Gets Finished ... Discussions

The Many Counter Narratives on this land, in my village ...

DAY BY DAY

May 12, 2014 -The village gets drier 

May 12, 2014 - Varalu and the beginnings of milk for the children 
May 17 2014 - Ayurveda, annadaanam, ...
May 21 2014 - Sasi's mentoring
May 23 2014 - Easharamma's cataract operation 
May 24, 2014 - Eashwaramma's cataract surgery has happenned
May 28, 2014 - after the cataract operation 
May 29, 2014 - after the cataract operation (2) 

Jun 17, 2014 - after the cataract operation (3) 
June 18, 2016 - Ramamurthi's accident, Eashwaramma's cataract ... 
June 19, 2014 - the accident - Ramamurthi  

2014 - 2017. Some things have fallen in place.

2018

Limitations in School Interventions

Toilets in Villages
The village and the city
The Gas Stove

The Vikatan Reporter

Raising the bar

Village Loans

Gas Cylinders for the Village

The wandering Nepali Watchman

Mr Ramamurthi, the Cat

A village birthday party

HOME

Village vignettes - Village bathrooms

Village vignettes - A one roomed home

Village vignettes - Another one roomed house

Village vignettes - Dusk at home

Village vignettes - Dawn at home

Village vignettes - Homes are mopped with cowdung

Village vignettes - Circles and Cycles at home

Village vignettes - Home is where the fire burns

Village vignettes - Home is where the Muggu is

Village vignettes - A small home

Village Vignettes - A new pot

Village vignettes - Goodbyes

Village vignettes - Muggu

Village vignettes - Long ago 

Village vignettes - Privacy (or the lack of it.) 

Village vignettes - Quiet times, quiet works

Village vignettes - The mirror on the wall

Village vignettes - Muggu
Village vignettes - Our Cats

RELIGION

Village vignettes - Anthills and religion

Village vignettes - Gavaramma Worship

Village vignettes - My ten year old pujari

Village vignettes - The temple with the SC priest

Village vignettes - The fun of rituals

Village vignettes - Idol worship

Village vignettes - The lamp at home

Village vignettes - Bhogi fires

Village Vignettes - Uppu chakka for the cattle

VILLAGE FUN

Village vignettes - The panchayat swimming pool

Village vignettes - Walk to the Santa
Village vignettes - Summer times are ice cream times

Village vignettes - Bangles, circles of light

Village vignettes - Bondas in the santa 

CHILDREN

Village vignettes - A childhood of work and play

Village vignettes - A chldhood of work and play (2)

Village vignettes - Rohit the menace(1)

Village vignettes - Rohit the menace (2)

Village vignettes - Rohit the menace (3)

Village vignettes - Rohit the menace (4) 

Village vignettes - Rohit the menace (5) 

Village vignettes - Rohit the menace (6)

Village vignettes - My children

Village vignettes - Pushwant and Vikram

Village vignettes - The cheerful milk delivery boy

Village vignettes - Keerthana and Milk 

Village vignettes - Bindu 

Village vignettes - Children driving to Pakala

Village vignettes - Sasi and his cycle

Village vignettes - The Vinayaka idol 

Village vignettes- Vinay learning a muggu from Shruti

Village vignettes - Birthday finery

POVERTY

Village vignettes - The portion of dal

Village vignettes - The portion of dal (2)

VILLAGE CULTURE

Village vignettes - Hospitality

Village vignettes - More hospitality

Civility in Villages

Village vignettes - Annasamy Anna and Kavya 

Village vignettes - Village afternoons

Village vignettes - The teacher and the taught 

A well, and swimming, and caste. Chittoor 

Village vignettes - Eashwaramma, a brinjal plant and generosity

Village vignettes - Lakshmamma 

Village vignettes - Bangaramma 

Village vignettes - Govindamma and Chinapaapakka

Village vignettes - Savudu Lakshmamma, Grace and Beauty

Village vignettes -  Eashwaramma'sWisdom 

Village vignettes - Dhavani

Village vignettes - Roadside fire

Village Vignettes - Village Women

WATER

And the village borewell dried - July 2014 

Water at 1000 feet  - Jan 2016

The starving cows  

What drought means 

FB Discussions - Water, villages, and us

Water at 1000 feet  - Jan 2016

Anatomy of a Drought 

Village vignettes - Check dams on the stream

Village vignettes - The irrigation tank, almost dry
Village Vignettes - Trees in Drought
Village vignettes - Drought

Village vignettes - Once water is there ...

Village vignettes - Drought

Village vignettes - Tank ayacut in drought

Village vignettes - Kavya and her Water pot

Village vignettes - Drying tanks

SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES

Village vignettes - Sustainability 

Village vignettes - Kanuga seeds

Village vignettes - The oil seller

Village vignettes - Bangle sellers

Village vignettes - the joy of glass bangles

Village vignettes - Bangles

Village vignettes - Firewood and integrity

Village vignettes - Weaving ropes of rice straw

The village Employment Guarentee Scheme

Village vignettes - local homes, sane homes 

Village vignettes - Local heal practitioners.

Village Vignettes - Broomsticks from the forests

Village Vignettes - Headloads

Village vignettes - The Village well
The Pots and the Potter 

UNSUSTAINABILITY

And a roof falls to the march of modernity

Village vignettes - Toothbrushes win 1

Village vignettes - Toothbrushes win 2

Village vignettes  - Toothbrushes

Village vignettes - The potter's son

PEOPLE

Village vignettes - My village banker

VILLAGE

The village thoomu

Village vignettes - The banyan Tree  

Village vignettes - Malleshwaram Konda 

Village vignettes - Malleshwaram Konda - old times

FARMING

The variety in traditional farms. 

Village vignettes - Harvesting horsegram

Village vignettes - Porampoke

 CITY - VILLAGE

The temples of modernity - Chennaitrip
Stealing Pizzaz - Chennai trip 

The roadside seller

Village Vignettes - Urban perceptions (tea glasses)

Village vignettes - Urban perceptions (Cooking set for the children) 

Village vignettes - Bullock Ghani

GENERAL

Village vignettes - Rural hotels

Village vignettes - The idli shop at Damalcheruvu

Village Vignettes - Waiting at the village busstop

Village vignettes - Naatu cows

Village Vignettes - Capacity of a village auto

Village vignettes - Naren1

Village vignettes -Naren2

Village Vignettes - and the years pass by

INTERVENTIONS

Village vignettes - Ayurveda step by step  

Village vignettes - For how long

Village Vignettes - Yoga at home
Village vignettes - Malnourishment/ Varalus children
The deep personal class compromises

Three Old Men
Sasi and the cycle and the motorcycle

Collecting Cowdung for the Manure Heap

Mr. Ramamurthy, the Cat

Munishwari Questions the Liquor trade

Widowhood, Customs, Change ... Paalaguttapalle

Subbiah - The End