Vignettes, diaries, videos, conversations: every entry in this section brings you up-close with us and our work
Our three operating units — Field Institutions, Grants and Universities — function in an integrated manner to fuel the Foundation’s motto of contributing towards a just, equitable, humane and sustainable society. We bring you a collection of narratives from all three units, straight from our people and partners across India. These stories, in the form of videos, animation, interviews and journals, showcase the journey and the Foundation in its various fields of work.
The Women Vaccine Warriors: COVID -19 Stories from Rajasthan
This documentary photo story features the experiences of eleven women frontline heroes of Rajasthan, involved in the Vaccination Abhiyan of the state.
Alumni story | Vidhya Vidhai
An organisation that helps schools transform into ideal learning spaces for children from the marginalised sections of our society
Alumni story | Bastar se Bazaar Tak
A social enterprise that seeks to enhance livelihoods in Chhattisgarh by supplying forest produce to urban consumers at a fair price
Alumni story | Ayang
Livelihoods of the people of Majuli, a riverine island in Assam, is the focus of Ayang, an organisation set up by an alumnus
Hoysala Aerobics: Move Like a Madanika
Imagine a carved figure from the walls of a Hoysala temple and the energetic moves of an aerobics trainer. Put the two together and you have a creative project from the current students of the University in Bengaluru
Vaccination Drive in Mori: An Uphill Climb
Our work in supporting the Covid vaccination programme in India, especially in the relatively remote and backward districts where we are present, were fraught with challenges. Here’s an untold story from those times.
A Doctor’s Experience: COVID-19 Stories from Rajasthan
A part of the ‘Chronicling Covid-19 in India’ series
The Journalists’ Experience: COVID-19 stories from Rajasthan
In this story, we pay tribute to all those fearless journalists and the people working at the crematorium, across the country.
Chronicling COVID-19 in India | The Story of Kalaburagi
This is the first of the photo stories from the Kalaburagi district of Karnataka: The humanitarian crisis, the devastation caused, and the herculean response.
Rivers of Life | नदी | Episode 1
Rivers are and have always been an important entity in our beings. Some of those values are becoming invisible these days. Here through this podcast, we make an attempt to do some conversations with rivers.
Rivers of Life | जल की नदियां | Episode 2
In Distant Time, civilisations started and decimated around rivers. In a way, lives of all the animate being start and end at rivers. One could say that there is no start or end. This poem is an attempt to show how everything in our beings are connected to rivers ...
Rivers of Life | बहाव| Episode 3
Like every single droplet of water flowing in the river, essentially, everything flows. This poem will have a conversation with you about cyclic and predeatined nature of flow in our lives.
