Routes to Grassroots
by Sonika
Routes to Grassroutes where we trace Personal Journeys into Collective Action For some, this journey begins with a memory. For others, with a moment of injustice they could not ignore. Sometimes it begins in their own neighborhood, and sometimes in a community far from the life they once imagined for themselves. Routes to GrassRoots is a podcast featuring conversations with people whose personal journeys led them to grassroots action and community-driven change. We’ll speak with organizers, activists, volunteers, social entrepreneurs, and changemakers about the experiences that shaped them, the communities that changed them, and the choices that turned concern into commitment. In a planet upended by war, strife, injustice and darkness; one where we often find ourselves in dispair complaining, much like Frodo from Tolkein’s world "I wish it need not have happened in my time," to which the wise Galdalf replies "So do I
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Episode 1. Kalpana on "A Woman of No Consequence"
Kalpana Karunakaran is an academic, a writer, an activist, and a teacher at IIT Madras, where she researches gender, poverty, and labor movements. She has written a stunning book, ironically titled A Woman of No Consequence, which is the subject of our conversation, where she turns her...
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Routes to Grassroutes where we trace Personal Journeys into Collective Action
For some, this journey begins with a memory. For others, with a moment of injustice they could not ignore. Sometimes it begins in their own neighborhood, and sometimes in a community far from the life they once imagined for themselves.
Routes to GrassRoots is a podcast featuring conversations with people whose personal journeys led them to grassroots action and community-driven change. We’ll speak with organizers, activists, volunteers, social entrepreneurs, and changemakers about the experiences that shaped them, the communities that changed them, and the choices that turned concern into commitment.
In a planet upended by war, strife, injustice and darkness; one where we often find ourselves in dispair complaining, much like Frodo from Tolkein’s world "I wish it need not have happened in my time," to which the wise Galdalf replies "So do I
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