Khula Manch

Khula Manch Khula Manch is a platform to discuss critical, sensitive, controversial issues people can't discuss otherwise. What is Khula Manch? What do we do at Khula Manch?

Khula Manch is a platform for all and a platform for everything. You may call it a platform to discuss critical, sensitive, controversial issues people can't discuss otherwise. Under Khula Manch we do various activities based on the burning issues that need your immediate attention. It originated with an idea of making paid workshops available for free to people who cannot afford such workshops. B

ut over a period of time it has evolved to work towards bringing issues out in public, making ourselves more informed and equipped with information to make right choices in our lives. Unfortunately we have become very busy in the fast city life with very little or no time to pause and look at what's happening around us. This is an attempt to make you pause and realize where we are headed. We are doing a lot of things at Khula Manch :p
We screen documentaries/short movies on various issues and aspects of life. We try to get someone from the documentary team if possible, else experts from relevant fields to conduct a discussion post screening to give us a direction and possible next steps we can adopt to bring some change. We conduct talks/interactions with experts from various fields who have spent a significant amount of time working on issues or for a cause. We conduct various workshops to make you familiar with certain subjects, best way to get some hands-on experience. We also conduct Books Exchange Mela with every event. You can pick any of the available books and put one of your books in the Book Bank, which will be available with others to exchange. You keep the mela alive. How do we work? We are not for profit organization and organizing these events require some expenditure for logistics. We believe on gift culture and that way we manage to keep our expenditures to the minimum. All the events we organize are pay it forward. We do not charge you for any of our events. However if you want us to continue doing this, it will be really nice if you can pay for the next event, just like how someone else paid for the event you would attend. How do I get involved? This is a community initiative; anyone can conduct these activities by making the required arrangements. As long as you don’t charge for the events and adhere to our ideology it’s all good. Please write to us at [email protected] if you would like to conduct an event and we can discuss how it can be taken forward.

15/09/2017

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

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

Cowspiracy screening at Koramangala 3rd block by Eco Warriors group in partnership with Khula Manch.Looking forward to a...
11/06/2017

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

Looking forward to a good discussion.

  Please Watch and Kindly spread the word.
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...

  Especially considering the times today...
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?

Madhavji taking a session on Spinning and Kirigami
05/03/2017

Madhavji taking a session on Spinning and Kirigami

City of burning lakes: experts fear Bangalore will be uninhabitable by 2025 | THE GUARDIANThe illegal dumping of waste m...
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

After the screening of those films on health if one feels lost about health there is an option to equip oneself with kno...
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!

Kindly visit and also spread the word!
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/

  The Daily Fix: Why do reports of mass r**e of Adivasi women by the police fail to elicit outrage? http://buff.ly/2ijb3...
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

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