Some members of the team organise photos from the past and curate a photo exhibition at Srishti building on Keystone Campus. The exhibitions room has featured earlier in our campus virtual tour Muthish Kuttan has been a reporter with the Nilgiri Seemai Suddhi for almost a decade. Here he is standing near his curation of photographs and their captions about the Toda community, their traditional landscapes and lifeways. These photos are currently displayed at the Srishti building on Keystone campus. During the meeting, our Founder-Director Snehlata Nath held a discussion with the team about their experiences with gender justice and climate change, and wove the conversations towards the importance of bringing in these aspects into their writing. The team convened the next day to pursue discussions on improving the quality of their news reports. Each member from the team identified challenges and opportunities in their contexts as a indigenous newsletter reporter. One of our staff, Bagavanidhi steered these discussions with the team and conducted exercises in reviewing each other’s news writings, showcased examples of innovative storytelling. The next morning, the team started their field visit from Kambaiyur. Seen here is Janagiamma explaining the shared history of the location, and importance of the landscape in Irula and Kurumba communities. Everyone reached Mettukal village after a short hike through other villages in the landscape. This village is at the border of Aracode and Konnavakarai slopes, and has active community members who have taken up work with Keystone over FRA, Livelihoods, Agriculture and other interventions. At the rock cluster with a view, the team spent a while recollecting learnings from the previous days and writing a feature article about an aspect of their community knowledge that can be published in Seemai Suddhi. Even some wild foods, like the flowering fruit of cactus, called Kalli palam, were relished
