Journeys
A thousand kilometres on one river, or five days in a village.
What a journey is here
A journey goes. You leave the city, or you walk into the part of it you have only ever driven past, and the place makes the argument instead of us.
A thousand kilometres on one river, or five days in a village.
A project runs for years. It has a curriculum, a plot of land or one community behind it, and the honest measure of it is what was still standing after the funding ended.
Curriculum, campus and garden. The work that runs for years.
A campaign pushes. It picks one thing — a river, the air, a planting season — and refuses to be finished with it. The oldest one here has been pushing since 2000.
Public pressure with a name on it, since We for Yamuna in 2000.
An event invites. It happens in public, it is open to whoever turns up, and then it is over.
Workshops, concerts and plays. One night at a time.
Every one of them
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12days
Yamuna Yatra
Twelve days and a thousand kilometres, downstream, from the source to Agra.
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4–5days
Gram Anubhav
Four to five days in rural Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Gujarat or Himachal.
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2–5days
NatureScapes
Two to five days in forest, mountain, desert or mangrove.
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2–4hours
CityScapes
Two to four hours inside the city, at the six places it would rather you did not look at.
You cannot brief someone into caring.
What it adds up to
What it looks like
Journeys, from the archive
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This goes to Vimlendu Jha, Swechha’s Executive Director.
Or write to vimlendu@swechha.in.
Reading this page is not the point of it.
Another kind
Events
Workshops, concerts and plays. One night at a time.
Every event on one page
Another kind
Projects
Curriculum, campus and garden. The work that runs for years.
Every project on one page
The evidence
The record
Every reading the situation pages are built on, in one place.
Every situation, side by side