Breaking Radio Silence

Located in the Magadi district of Bangalore, amongst the beauty of the nature is a village named Avarahali. Recently I had the opportunity to visit a training camp situated in this very village. The interaction with nature was very exciting and the training camp itself was very insightful. But what struck me the most was the village itself. Avarahali is situated 42 km from central Bangalore. That makes it almost inaccessible. The only main road is the Bangalore – Mysore highway. This village is what i would call primitive and extremely rural. Cattle farming and agriculture are the only source of income for many people here. Brand names like 'Nestle' and 'Godrej' are all new words. Mobile phones are an invention of the outer world. This scenario made me think of the very basic division of India. India of the 2010 and the India 50 years back both existing in the same time period. With the government constantly trying to bridge the gap between rural and urban areas, the mo...

When a baby comes out into this world, the baby’s mind is said to be like a sponge, ready to absorb everything he or she is exposed to. Later in life he starts asking questions about the information he comes across. The curiosity to understand the driving force behind everything in this world - that curiosity is the very same driving factor for mankind’s development from a mere caveman to what he has become today. But the truth is that in today’s world commercialism is given more preference than the basic inner human needs to interact with the worldly elements. For example, the education system two centuries back in India and the current education system now can prove this very exact point. Two centuries ago the gurukul system of education entitled the students to stay in an ashram, feeding off from the basic offerings of nature. The motive here was to develop closeness between the man and nature. But in today’s fast moving world, man has bubbled himself up in a superficial world where...