When you listen to it the first time, it sounds strange, a mixture of East and West, presented by the Sulfi Gospel project. As Sonam Kalra says “it is about creating a sound that touches every soul.” Sonam is the founder of the Sulfi Gospel project and she is a changemaker. Her efforts consist in…
Category: India
A kindergarten inauguration, an unusual collaboration and more health
The kindergarten inauguration in South India in a tribal village When I arrive in the late morning and see all the people in front of the new anganwadi (kindergarten), the drumming boys welcoming everyone with an exciting sound and rhythm and the parents and children who are dressed up in the best way for the…
The ‘Learn to pay’ phase – that’s possible in India only
I’d wished we had some more India style trials in Europe. Sometimes and in certain circumstances, like that one I experienced today at a toll station in Kerala close to Pallakad and the border with Tamil Nadu: there, during the last months a new Indian highway has been built – not comparable with a European…
Indian tribal drumming dreams and missing opportunities
Often when I visit tribal villages most of the males have left for school, for work, for a walk into another village … This time school holidays have started and some young boys between ten and twenty sit under a tree or close to a house, all together, and talk. “I wish we had…
Knitting with tribal women in Tamil Nadu, India
The knitting experience I wanted to find out how the intercultural collaboration and interaction “across the borders” works and feels: being in middle of tribal women, who are organized in some selfhelp groups, live in very limited infrastructural surroundings and who are busy with caring goats and providing the basics for their families. How…
Tribal tamil women enjoy proudly their first cooking book – copy wanted?
Some months have passed since two tribal villages invited me for a cooking function. It was an amazing day. They had shown me how they prepare food, chicken and fish, bread, wheat, curries … How they prepare open fireplaces and cook in traditional manner. I had taken a lot of photos and with the…
India: Integrating marginalized families in hospitals – an innovative idea, more health for all
In India, the healthcare infrastructure can’t keep up with the skyrocketing demand for health services. In order to meet current demand, India needs 500,000 more doctors, and twice as many nurses. Meanwhile, patients are often discharged into environments without adequate sanitation, knowledge, and tools to care for themselves safely. But Noora Health, an innovative organisation…
Why I spent an hour with studying Indian job offers on a local newspaper
Reading newspapers abroad is always an interesting activity to get insights on how local people think and act. National and international events, news, comments should be presented in a similar way all over the world – as it happened and that’s it – , but by doing so it becomes a hundred thousand different realities….
Protection and safety- a huge market niche in India
Adults of all ages and school children en masse walk along the streets without any sidewalk area. On the national highway there are Rikshas, and overloaded tractors in the middle of the roads. Cows and goats cross. Gaps and bumpy parts – no problem for the cyclists. Guard rails? In the big cities you find…
India is a picture book for understanding life
More than 100 days of “experiencing India” have passed. But still – here in India there is so much to discover, every day, again and again. All over the country. Just as if it were the first time I get not tired to observe while travelling, simply watching: people and things that exist and…
Go India, go future! 