A few days ago, my wife and I noticed a stray which had a huge tumour, it was so so horrible (hanging from neck, just short of touching the ground) that we decided something had to be done. Through friends, we managed to found a Vet who would do the surgery, who in turn connected us to someone who would come to catch the dog.
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Magic and miracles often emerge from just listening to what our heart is saying to us. And when we learn to tune out the cacophony of sounds that often take over our everyday lives, our heart has a way of opening up our world, bringing into it laughter, joy and boundless love. That is what Y.S Pavithra, the founder of Bangalore-based social enterprise Vindhya E-Infomedia discovered over the course of the last month when she and a handful of volunteers from Vindhya ran a community kitchen to feed hundreds of those hit the hardest by the countrywide lockdown due to the Covid pandemic. Continue reading
There are times when I do not question the grand scheme of things, so when Pradeep Ghosh, an Ashoka Fellow, invited me to accompany him to Proto Village, I didn’t ask many questions. And that is how I was led to this intentional community in Anantapur, India where people choose to do what they want to do and when. Proto Village doesn’t prescribe to any vocation in particular, which also means that people who stay put here design their own activities adhering to Proto’s ethics and principles. There is no anxiety of execution either, but they live off and by the land, so their skin is in the game.
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