Sabita Khalkho (35) is a mother of five children — Sakshi, Shashi, Beronika, Sajna and Sushmita — who spends most of the year in the absence of her husband who works outside Ranchi district at a brick kiln. Though he only visits his wife and children once every three months, his presence isn’t very helpful…
Bhutan is a small country nestled in the Himalayas with a population of little less than 8 lakhs. It is a unique constitutional monarchy. Democracy co-exists with monarchy in governance. The King retires at the age of 65 years, handing over the reins to the next generation. Bhutan is still very much rooted in tradition.…
In this new financial year, the eNGO programme, too, has a new range of services for non-government organisations across India. The network has already enabled more than 2,000 NGOs through validated online identities and digitally empowered more than 6,000 NGOs across South Asia. Now, it aims to cater to NGOs of all echelons with its…
The Baank-e-Loom project in Uttar Pradesh went a step ahead last month towards launching its exclusive e-Commerce website and social media channels by carrying out a professional shoot of handloom products coming out of the cluster. Further, to upscale production and improve designs, designers from Jaipur visited the centre to interact with weavers. NIFT Mumbai…
CIRCs across India celebrated Women’s Day with great gusto by engaging in various cultural programmes, meetings and discussions. CIRC Sonapur in Assam celebrated the day with participation of more than 20 women for an interactive discussion on March 8, 2017. The first session of the day revolved around ‘Women’s struggle for equality around the world’;…
The aim to digitally empower people in their communities, and beyond, means that our centre coordinators, trainers and sometimes even our beneficiaries have to continuously make people aware of how their needs and issues can be solved if they had access to the right information. Recently, the CIRC Halduchuar team — which included the coordinator,…
Austrian couple Melanie Fritzer and Phillip Benedikt are on a very interesting year-long journey across the world. They wish to travel from country to another, trading their professions for life’s basic needs, and “basically reintroduce the barter system”. Melanie is a social worker and Benedikt is a photographer film-maker. In this journey, India was their…
The government needs to think about creating 250,000 smart panchayats. Or it can start with a smaller target
“Jhini jhini bini chadariya; Kaahe ka tana,kaahe ki bharan; Kaun taar se bini chadariya?” In these lines, Kabir says , “I have run mere cotton threads for the warp and weft. But how did God, the Master Weaver, make this finely woven fabric we call skin that we wear all our lives? What is the…
