Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Collecting Rural Women Narratives

As of now, there are no rural narratives of wives and daughters of suicidal farmers up on the blog :

http://www.zubani.blogspot.com/

Some people have offered to collect some of the narratives. One hopes there can be many more people who begin to collect them, translate them to English, and to other languages, and put them up on the Internet and build up the the Zubani Blog as a resource for all who are concerned and affected.

The process of collecting narratives, is absolutely open and will continue to be so for many years, because one can see no end to more and more such narratives. There is no concept of an editor for these narratives.

Everyone who contributes, is a self moderated editor. We will keep learning from the narratives, and hopefully these narratives will point a way forward for the future of science and technology innovations, sustainability and creativity, in Indian farming and agriculture and indeed rural life, in coming years.

Anyone with basic Internet access, can post the narratives, from anywhere in India. Feel free to experiment, and there is no need to be afraid of anyone on this earth.

Without fearlessness and without openness there is no future. Find your inspiration from these women and daughters, whose husbands have consumed a can of pesticides, and left them alone, to fend for themselves, and everyone will begin to ask questions of themselves.
What are we doing, Where are we going ? Are our actions of any help to those who are living in the villages of India ?