Cauvery - South India’s Lifeline
Cauvery is the lifeline of South India and provides food, water, and economic security for the entire region. It provides water to 100...
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Abhiram Nandakumar with Caitlin Blood
- Mar 27
- 3 min
A brief history of Karnataka’s water managers
For millennia, humans have been harnessing water in a myriad number of traditional methods, for water is the very essence of life. Apart...
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Caitlin Blood with Abhiram Nandakumar
- Mar 26
- 2 min
The cascading system of tanks and how it has helped fulfil water needs historically
For centuries, adivasi and other local communities throughout Karnataka sustained the ancient human-made tanks and the channels that...
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Caitlin Blood with Abhiram Nandakumar
- Mar 25
- 2 min
Neeruganti and the role they play in the community
Neeruganti Venkatappa, now 70 years old, is one of an ancestral line of tank managers called Neeruganti, who preside over the ancient...
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Caitlin Blood with Abhiram Nandakumar
- Mar 23
- 2 min
Role of Neeruganti in preserving biodiversity
For centuries, the waters from the tanks have breathed life into the ecosystems that sustain rural indigenous communities throughout the...
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Caitlin Blood with Abhiram Nandakumar
- Mar 22
- 3 min
The role of community stewardship in managing shared natural resources
Karnataka’s rocky and undulating terrain is dotted with 37,000 lakes spread over 685,000 hectares of command area. Many of these lakes...
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Abhiram Nandakumar with Caitlin Blood
- Mar 21
- 3 min
A case for the return of the Neeruganti - Karnataka’s water managers
For thousands of years, human-made tanks and reservoirs have ensured the availability of water for communities across rain-fed regions of...
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Caitlin Blood with Abhiram Nandakumar
- Mar 20
- 3 min
Making a case for younger generation Neeruganti
For hundreds of years, the human-made tanks that exist across Karnataka, have sustained the livelihoods of the rural population. Under...
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Nayantara Lakshman
- Jan 31
- 6 min
Exclusion and Conflict
Elephants, being the largest land mammals, require large areas to roam and meet their daily food and water requirements during different...
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Nachiket Kelkar with Caitlin Blood
- Jul 22, 2022
- 11 min
A River Meander Of Hope And Despair
When a terrestrial lifeline like the river Ganga meanders and changes course, it rewrites human destinies. As has been done for...
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Nachiket Kelkar with Caitlin Blood
- Jul 20, 2022
- 1 min
Introducing Rain Fed Agricultural Systems
Diversity is the one word that characterises the rainfed agricultural areas of India, spread over 77 million hectares of the country....
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Nayantara Lakshman
- Jul 20, 2022
- 9 min
People And Water – A Global Concern With Localised Solutions
The ownership of water preservation and conservation is not only for indigenous and rural communities, but also for all of us who live in...
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Nayantara Lakshman with Caitlin Blood
- Jul 20, 2022
- 11 min
Gram Sabha: Local Community Governance Preserves The Forests Of Jharkhand
Jharkhand, India Known as ‘the land of the forests’, the state of Jharkhand in eastern India is a deeply storied place despite its recent...
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Jinan K B
- Jun 8, 2021
- 6 min
The Future Of Indigenous Knowing
The future of indigenous knowing depends on the children of the indigenous communities. But, in my view the present drive to send all...
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Nooreen Ahmed
- Jun 1, 2021
- 5 min
How Gram Sabha Are Putting Power Back In The Hands Of The Communities, One Issue At a Time
How Gram Sabha are putting power back in the hands of the communities, one issue at a time The trees of Saranda Forests in Jharkhand are...
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Madappa P S
- Jun 1, 2021
- 3 min
The Dying Sounds Of Rhythm
Deepak Naik has an unusual routine. He walks three kilometers to collect clay. The collected clay is then used to make a traditional...
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V.V. Sainath Pilla and Kanna K. Siripurapu
- Feb 26, 2021
- 5 min
Wading Over The Muddy Fields
Wading Over the Muddy Fields “On a hot sunny day, when I was travelling for work across the paddy fields of East Godavari district,...
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