Engale Galasu Tuber Planting Festival Celebrated
By Muhammed Rafi, Community wellbeing The Engale Gallau Tuber Planting Festival was jointly organized by the Nattarivu Padana Kendra (Indigenous Knowledge Study Centre) and Keystone Foundation at Edavaka Panchayat in Wayanad district. Nattarivu Padana Kendra serves as a vital space for the sharing of traditional farming knowledge and practices among experienced farmers who share a […]
Sowing Seeds, and Knowledge at Jaivolsavam 2025
By Muhammed Rafi, Field Coordinator, Governance, Community Wellbeing Jaivolsavam is an agricultural program that has been organized by the Nattarivu Padana Kendra and the Keystone Foundation in Wayanad. Through this program, we have exchanged agricultural knowledge and seeds for the past three years, as well as discussed issues and solutions related to agriculture. This […]
Community Profile: Sebinakobe Madeva
Madeva is a 40 year old man from the Soliga community, and resides in Sebinakobe village in Nokkanahalli gram panchayat, Hanur taluk in Chamarajanagar district of Karnataka. He has two sons and engages in several different forms of livelihood, including farming, priesthood, pastoralism and beekeeping of several types of bees. Agriculture is his major source […]
How are Village Elders Helping Preserve Traditional Knowledge?
Our Sathyamangalam field centre organised sessions where village elders sat with children as young as three up to 12 years of age and spoke about traditional and organic agriculture, its decline despite the gentleness of such practices on soil and water. Lakshmiamma and Maare were the two elders that delivered this session in Urali language […]
Community Stories: Meen Vettai in Selappan
February 2, 2023 By Vijayan (Community Resource Person in Sathyamangalam), Murugan, Nagumani, Veeran, Karubantan, Thangaraj and Nagaraj (members of the Uralis tribe) We reside in Selappan Dhoddi village in the Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve, and are permitted by the forest department to practice our fishing in the forest springs. One day, we decided to go to […]
Photo Story: Wall Art on Climate Change by Radio Kotagiri
January 28, 2023 By Manickam & Ranjani PrasadAdditional Prog. Coordinator (Radio Kotagiri) & Programme Coordinator (PNC) The important documentation work done by our independent initiative Radio Kotagiri highlights the role of locally based community media in raising awareness of important topics concerning the Nilgiris and highlighting community stories. Over the weekend, Radio Kotagiri facilitated this […]
