The East Kolkata Wetlands (EKW) are one of the world’s most remarkable examples of a city and its ecology working together. Designated a Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention in 2002, the EKW quietly performs a feat few urban systems can claim: it takes Kolkata’s sewage and, through entirely natural processes, transforms itContinueContinue reading “Ripples: An Intergenerational Dialogue on the East Kolkata Wetlands”
Category Archives: Session/Workshops
Evolving Rice Currency
The Pathaayam as Economic Archive In the villages of southern India, one could once find a wooden storage box known as the pathaayam. Today, these boxes sit largely forgotten in the corners of elderly farmers’ homes. But in their time, they functioned as something far more significant than mere storage containers. They were, in effect,ContinueContinue reading “Evolving Rice Currency”
Young Rural Women’s Leadership Building Programme
JULY 1ST 2021 – 10 Selected Participants. Image Courtesy: Somnath Hore, Oil on Canvas, 1950 Jaladarsha Collective has started a 4-month long programme to build Legal, Gender Empowerment perspective, Aftercare & Mental well-being strategies Entrepreneurship, and Collective Leadership capabilities for 10 young women in rural Bengal. The YRWLB programme will cover a weekly training sessionContinueContinue reading “Young Rural Women’s Leadership Building Programme”
Session on Women’s Rights and Muslim Personal Law
Jaladarsha Collective initiated a session on Women’s Rights and Muslim Personal Law conducted by Sabir Ahmed at Swarupdah Gram Panchayat on 1st February 2021.
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