This category contains writings by AID JeevanSaathi Aravinda Pillalamarri.
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"It was in a tribal village in Maharashtra that I first learned about the cup six years ago.
One young woman told me she used a cup made of rubber that she
could simply empty, wash, and reinsert in less than a minute."
L S Aravinda
writes of her journey through adolescence and into a comfortable womanhood.
Published in India Together, November 2005
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November 2000 Globalisation
demands that people speak, count, remember, live and die in forms
expressible in first world languages and databases. Though the
furious drive towards standardization of knowledge and modes of
expression seems irresistible, tribal communities (adivasis) of Narmada
Bachao Andolan (Save Narmada Movement) in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, and
Maharashtra, struggle against this at the intellectual, social and
cultural levels. Their ways of knowing - be it geography, health,
demography, mathematics, economics or history - are essential tools for
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Written by Aravinda Pillalamarri
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 Taking
globalisation personally..... a few incidents that brought it home.
Ironically, globalization abets individual isolation. We can
counter
globalization by spending our money on things not so much oriented to
our
immediate use, but things of lasting value to the community. A
pair
of shoes or tickets to a play? One ride in a taxi or 10 rides in
the bus? Two mass produced plastic hair clips or one made of
bamboo
by a village artisan?
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Written by Aravinda Pillalamarri
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 How can we
catch the elusive moments in the teaching experience where learning
actually happens? Where can the literate, educated, and developed
among us go to learn the precious lesson of how to speak. Fewer and
fewer places in society allow this. My experience on the Rajamandry
Island mini-school has made me ponder this question. |
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Written by Aravinda Pillalamarri
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The Hindu, 3 December 2000
 The six-year fight by the people of Narmada valley, to retain
their land, may have been stopped temporarily, but the country is
left with questions to which there can be no answers. The
displacement of the tribals, sustained for generations by the
local resource and skill base, sounds a death-knell to our
civilisation, writes L. S. ARAVINDA.
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