Prathicksha, organizer, trainer & coach shares how our teaching fellow Katigayini from Kota tribe in Tamil Nadu organised her community for building ladies toilets at Thiruchigadi. It all began in the winter of November 2021 when our programme Lead Neha, my colleague Thiru and I, along with our local partner…

Meet T Thirumurthi, Senior Associate Trainer part of our Niligirs Adivasi Leadership Program who is working with tribal youth in Wayanad, Kerala training them in community organizing to create change in their communities. We spoke to him about his experience as a trainer, organiser, coach and most importantly a friend…

Rakesh, a young Adivasi leader from the Kattunayakan tribe in Kerala, part of Haiyya’s Nilgiris Advisai Leadership Program, mobilises for the education of the children in the region. Here’s how the community’s collective action resulted in allocating a Government jeep to transport local children to school and back. We met…

On a sunny morning in Waynad district of Kerala, my colleagues and I met with some very inspiring youth belonging to the indigenous communities of the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve. The narrations around their culture, history, social and political beliefs leave you with wonder and curiosity, but what really leaves deep…

Vihaan from Haiyya attended his first Global Climate Strike and these are his musings from this one of a kind protest experience. Read on to find out about his reflections and questions that a young trans man is sitting with in the climate change space. It had just been two…

**Trigger Warning: Conversations about assault and rape. If this is a sensitive matter to you, then please do not read.** It was the winter quarter of my junior year of college when I realized that I did not have an internship set for the summer and started frantically looking for…

I did not know what to do with my body till I was eighteen years old and even then, I was uncomfortable about it. The one thing about my body that puzzled me to no end as an eight-year-old was menstruation. Getting your period in junior school (Class 5) was…

In less than six months from now, 21 Indian cities, including Delhi, are feared to run out of groundwater. 60% of the water supplied by Delhi Jal Board comes from the Yamuna, around 34% from Ganga, and the rest is from groundwater. Having limited surface water resources (i.e., rivers, lakes…

If someone says that Delhi’s air condition is at its worst, I will be easily convinced. But if someone even screams about a groundwater crisis, I will still take some time to believe. People often neglect the importance of groundwater since it’s not visible at the surface. But its impact…