Time to be Frugal (By Olubodun Akinyele, 2019 kanthari) As I boarded the plane from Trivandrum airport last December, I was filled with mixed feelings. I was not only leaving my Kerala friends behind, but I would also see my new global network of social change makers travel to their different abodes to change communities […]
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What can we learn from a Colibri*? The hummingbird is known to be the smallest and, in terms of its body size, the fastest bird in the world. The Colibri however is less known for its incredible flying skills: with 40 to 50 wing strokes per second, it can hover to access Nectar. It
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Documentary “KANTHARI – change from within” now online The documentary “KANTHARI – Change from Within” about Nobel peace prize nominee Sabriye Tenberken and Co-founder of kanthari institute Paul Kronenberg has been released online and is free to watch. In 2016 the film, directed by Marijn Poels and produced by Tomek Kozakiewicz, was screened
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Durian, for a more just world (by Tony Joy, 2017 kanthari graduate) During times of crisis it is sad that people use it as an opportunity to exploit others. I was thinking, why have the prices of locally grown food suddenly tripled? We keep complaining that the government is doing us no good, but are
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Looking back… and forward… By Chacko Jacob (catalyst at kanthari) In India we have moved on to nationwide Lockdown 4.0 till the 31st of May. Under new slightly more relaxed rules, interstate and intrastate road travel; opening of markets and e-commerce; and even sports in stadia (without spectators) is allowed; all, of course, under
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Just don’t relax too soon! All over the world, it looks as if people are slowly getting used to the new ‘normal’. News of new infections and deaths have become one ingredient of our everyday life. In India, regions are divided into colors. Red means alarm, infections are still the order of
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Vahani, scholarships for equality by Jaishree Misra When Savej Hassan was finishing high school, he confesses being frightened to look too far ahead. He breaks into Hindi to express the view he saw as a 16-year-old, even though he had consistently been a good student – ‘The road ahead was completely dhundli-dhundli-si (Hindi for
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Let’s convert the hamster wheel into a carousel By Viviane Ruof. Viviane hails from Switzerland, graduated last year, and on her India trip, just before the Indian lockdown, visited the kanthari Institute for 3 days. Like sprouts that tentatively pierce the foliage in spring, more and more people are now daring to take
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It is okay to say that you are not okay! By Anand Mathew – former kanthari volunteer I hail from a small town called Kottayam in the state of Kerala, and we had been relatively fortunate to have missed the initial wave of the virus, with only three or four cases in our
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A view from afar By Priya Mohan, former kanthari Intake-Coordinator, nowadays she works with Deutsche Welle in Bonn. For a Keralite living in Germany for the last couple of years, though more of a lifetime considering the changes it bought to my life, my roots yearn for those simple earthly pleasures from
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