Khula Manch

08/07/2018

The time when there used to be multiple screenings in a day -

https://photos.app.goo.gl/ygqVGWMF1CfEeqxD6

15/09/2017

Excellent video on the pros and cons of bottled water with regards health!

25/08/2017

Be watchful of how you celebrate Ganesha Festival this time around!

If want Ganesha to be Happy, then do what he would expect of you.

Ganesh visarjan used to be a way of returning fertile soil back to lake beds and river beds, not PoP and poisonous colors. Revive the original tradition with less noise and perhaps .

Ganapati Bappa Morya!

11/06/2017

Cowspiracy screening at Koramangala 3rd block by Eco Warriors group in partnership with Khula Manch.

Looking forward to a good discussion.

11/06/2017

Please Watch and Kindly spread the word.

From farmers being shot dead in Mandsaur, Madhya Pradesh, to those across Maharashtra now out on the streets in protest, to those from Tamil Nadu on hunger s...

01/06/2017

Especially considering the times today...

There is a fine line between Patriotism and Jingonism. We keep crossing it all the time, especially in the recent times. Why are we so insecure about the identity of something that is nothing but a figment of somebody's imagination, the boundaries that didn't exist once.

Where is the logic in hoisting flags and singing the anthem when you don't take pride in cleaning up your city/country. A person gets killed for asking people urinating in public?

05/03/2017

Madhavji taking a session on Spinning and Kirigami

01/03/2017

City of burning lakes: experts fear Bangalore will be uninhabitable by 2025 | THE GUARDIAN

The illegal dumping of waste mixed with mass untreated sewage in India’s Silicon Valley is creating a water crisis which threatens residents’ health – and is causing the city’s famous lakes to catch fire

On the evening of Thursday 16 February, residents in the south-east part of Bangalore noticed huge plumes of smoke rising into the sky. The smoke was coming from the middle of Bellandur Lake – the biggest lake in the city at a little over 890 acres. They realised the seemingly impossible had happened: the lake had caught fire. Even fire fighters wondered how a blaze in water could be put out.

The fire in the lake burned for 12 hours and left behind a sinister black patch in the centre, according to some eye-witness accounts.

This is the new story of Bangalore – state capital, India’s Silicon Valley, and once upon a time, the “city of lakes”. The reasons why these lakes are able to catch fire begin to explain why scientists at the influential Indian Institute of Science believe Bangalore will be “unliveable” in a few years’ time

Read further at https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/mar/01/burning-lakes-experts-fear-bangalore-uninhabitable-2025

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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/mar/01/burning-lakes-experts-fear-bangalore-uninhabitable-2025

02/02/2017

After the screening of those films on health if one feels lost about health there is an option to equip oneself with knowledge to take charge of their own health. This workshop a lot of urs feel can help!

15/01/2017

Kindly visit and also spread the word!

THE LAST GALA MALNAD MELA

Vanastree is happy to invite you to the tenth (and very last!) Malnad Mela in Bengaluru.

DATE: January 21-22, 2017 (Saturday & Sunday)
TIME: 11am - 6pm
VENUE: Golden Bead School, Bengaluru - 157, Rathna Avenue (off Richmond Rd)

Highlights include:
* A spread of rare, traditional eats from the Malnad Kitchen (special focus on banana dishes)
* Foods, non-foods and crafts from the Malnad with women forest gardeners
* Local, organic open-pollinated seeds bursting with vitality and ready to grow
* Youth farmers with millets, garden supplements and handmade soaps
* Seed craft, eco-activities and block printing with natural dyes

And enjoy stalls from our special Mela partners:
* Display and sale by the Karnataka Alliance for Safe Food
* The Karadi Betta farming family who boldly transited from Bangalore to a rural life
* Soil life and testing by SOIL
* Cotton clothes and more from Namma Angadi, Charakha and Tula that put a new spin to an old world fabric
* Terracotta jewellery and rag dolls from The Crafts Studio
* Calendars by children, notebooks and gift bags from Anando, Kolkata

Spread the good word by sharing this post, and continue to enjoy the produce and products we have brought you for a decade—and will continue to bring you at select retail outlets.

We eagerly look forward to meeting you at the Malnad Mela!

The Vanastree collective
http://vanastree.org/more/event-calendar/

11/01/2017

The Daily Fix: Why do reports of mass r**e of Adivasi women by the police fail to elicit outrage? http://buff.ly/2ijb3Vt

The Daily Fix: Why do reports of mass r**e of Adivasi women by the police fail to elicit outrage?

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The incident shines a spotlight on the Indian state’s treatment of Adivasis. The region suffers from debilitating poverty and neglect. Starvation and disease that most of the world has moved on from still affect India’s Adivasis. In 2016, for instance, 93 severely malnourished children died from encephalitis in Odisha’s Malkangiri. It seems the only time the Indian state takes an interest in these regions is when it wants to tap its minerals. Recently, the Modi government has even sanctioned air strikes on India’s Adivasi belt, copying the Pakistani government in Baluchistan.

It isn’t only the Indian state that displays a medieval level of callousness towards its own citizens. India’s influential city dwellers – who have the power to get the state to act – are also quite unconcerned with the shocking levels of depredation in their midst. The story of sexual molestation in Bengaluru appeared at about the same time as the National Human Rights Commission issued its order about the Chhattisgarh mass r**e. Yet, only one story went viral in the English-language media. The double standard could hardly be starker.
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Source: Scroll - http://buff.ly/2ijb3Vt

10/01/2017

The NHRC indicted the government and security forces for gross human rights violations.

The NHRC indicted the government and security forces for gross human rights violations.

https://scroll.in/article/826176/chhattisgarh-must-identify-and-prosecute-policemen-who-r**ed-16-women-demand-activists