Coming back to my home town in Germany after seven weeks in India was not really characterized by a “big shock”. Although many friends have asked exactly that question during the last days: “Isn’t it a big difference and somehow strange to come back to a completely different, developed and modern world?” It is cold,…
Category: change and society
7weeks in India – a guide, a priest, a function and Yogathon
It is Saturday. I have travelled to Delhi. As most of the visitors in the Indian capital I have booked a guide to see some of the most important monuments and places. I will stay here just one, two days … Like mostly in India, booking a tour means getting a guide, a driver and…
7weeks in India – The tribal cooking invitation
Arnattokadu, Kalekkadu – these are the names of two small villages in Tamil Nadu, South India I have visited in the last weeks. During the visits these women showed me their houses, told me about their lives, their self-help groups and how they want to create their own future. I learnt also about their challenges, poverty…
The beauty of old tribal women
The beauty of old tribal women – and their role as change agents Isn’t it amazing? In many big cities, with the ongoing globalization and higher education, huge changes of family structures are taking place – also in India. Young families need to go for work in other areas and personal independence gets higher rated…
7weeks in India – A travel to the past, a life without mobility
The importance of mobility: For us in the developped world reaching from A to B is always possible, sometimes it might take some more time, but every village, every place is connected. If some trains or busses are on strike we get crazy, but ….can you imagine a life without any mobility? A life where…
7weeks in India – Momos in Ooty
I see them and can hardly resist: momos, veg balls in garlic sauce, boiled in water. One my preferred foods in India. I spend the weekend in Ooty, a hill town in the Nilgiri mountains at 2.240m. Talking with the momo lady The lady is preparing momos at a cooking stand when I pass by….
7weeks in India – Female tribal self-help groups building their own future
The mushroom cultivation – it is just one small business idea for poor women that could lead to a different way of life. When we enter the tribal village most of the women are working on the right and the left of a small muddy road that takes us to the mushroom cultivation facility. Day-workers….
7weeks in India – Poverty, mental health issues and the Banyan
It is hot, humid and it smells of fish – everywhere. Men and women are sitting in front of their houses; most of them just stay there, some of them seem to sleep. Nearby, nets have been put and fixed with basket, covering fish that has been put there, one by one. The nets make…
Light means life. Light means loss.
Without doubt, light means life. Light has an incredible influence on our lives. In a positive way. Safety, enabling us to move quickly and continuing with activities that a century ago simply were stopped – due to a lack of light during night. But what about all these huge cities and places that during night…
Save it or kill it: business needs a new heart to survive
Business vs social – an artificial separation that does not work any more The popular 1970s slogan “The business of business is business” is symptomatic of an artificial separation of social and economic concerns that affected education, process thinking and the CSR units of corporations. The demand for increased corporate social responsibility is growing louder….
Go India, go future! 