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Dear Reader,
As we celebrate 75 years of India’s ‘tryst with destiny’, it is an auspicious time as any for looking back at the making of India - its trials and tribulations, its triumphs and trophies - to inquire if we have redeemed the pledge that the country collectively took at that magical midnight hour many years ago.
The India Forum indulges in this journey, the “little histories” that tell a tale about our collective experience as a nation, as we have stepped out from old to the new. The series begins with the story of India’s cinema halls – a platform for a medium that has broken social barriers, ushered in social reforms, and created new identities.
Waving the Indian flag to mark the moment are over two thousand, mostly Muslim women, in Punjab’s Malerkotla, who have their hands full this year making the tricolour for ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’. ThePrint brings you their story of this “no common tailoring job”.
In a series to mark the occasion of “75 years of people’s power”, Down To Earth chronicles villages where the power of the community has been unleashed to find solutions for drinking water and sanitation. Among these, is the story of Ghugwa and Patora, two villages in the Durg district of Chhattisgarh, where the villagers have innovated to find solutions to the perennial problem of grey water.
And, Mojo Story brings you a re-telling, from Punjabi to English, of the trauma of partition, which tragically accompanied India’s freedom – the anguish and the lessons – but ultimately also a narrative of humanity and humaneness.
On behalf of the Foundation and its trustees, I wish you a very happy 75th year of Independence.
For more such stories from the grantees this week, please read on.
Warmly,
Sunil Rajshekhar
IPSMF
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