A year and half back, the city was a change I did not want to deal with. Everything started melting into something unknown. Metamorphosis The trees were uprooted while people were sleeping. There was not a single tree on CMH road. Ulsoor was missing. Sliced buildings draped in sand and rubble. On Sundays, leftovers of …

Jurmil Morcha, a people’s front from Rajnandgaon district in Chhattisgarh travelled across Bangalore tirelessly from the 3rd to 5th of December doing precisely this. Using a traditional folk form Pandavani, Budan Bhai, leader of Jurmil Morcha says, “Pandavani was used to tell the Mahabharat in ancient times. I will use it to tell people today’s Mahabharat, our fight and struggle with the Kauravas, the State.”

Bengaluru Pride 2008 The most colourful march Bangalore has seen… June 29, 2008 We didn’t even know about the Pride, until one of our friends talked to us about making the march colourful. That was an exciting thing to do – make a march colourful. From a distance, we must look like the rainbow, someone …

A paper by Pritham Chakravarthy on Theatre Activism for the Journal of National Folklore.

Radio Active (RA), is the first and only functional community radio station in Bangalore. Housed in Mahaveer Jain college, RA operates currently on 107.8 MHz and radiates its programmes at 100 W. With FM technology, it is accessible to the common woman, and aims to engage its communities with relevant programming on areas like health, …

MYRADA is a non Governmental organisation managing rural development programmes in 3 States of South India – Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. While the objective is to help the poor help themselves, MYRADA achieves this by forming Self Help Affinity Groups (SHGs) and through partnerships with NGOs and other organisations. MYRADA has many resource …