It all started last year when I had first got to know about grassroutes.I wanted to apply for a couple of reasons .. a) a road trip with friends during holidays to some remote village would mean revisiting  old childhood memories of camping in tribal villages and b) rediscovering myself in different space time coordinates..a lot had changed since my last trip to the villages which was 5 years back  in standard 1oth.Also, the program was initiated by people I have  always admired and respected.However I could not apply for …

Just a little background:   Our mini campaign was “ NO FOOD WASTAGE TODAY“. We conducted the campaign in a mess in our college, BITS Pilani. After two issues that we were keen to work on misfired, we decided upon this concept because a) we were sure it would bring about a visible and documentable change and b) because all of us had witnessed this problem and genuinely felt about it.
We felt that the best way to make people realise the impact of wasting food was by making them feel …

Was reading through spokes post on how they met up.  Your teaming up was  quite incidental and I guess that is what makes it so exciting for you guys as you will discover so much about each other during the road trip.
As for us “Sepians”, Shruti was keen on applying for the winter edition last time but couldnt find a team and so this time round was determined to pull people. She teamed up with Shailee and that followed with Phani (he is a wonder with the cam). Where did …

Sepia is one among the three teams to have become grassroutes fellows for summer 2009. The team comprises Shruti Shah,Shailee Jain, Phaneendra and Abhimanyu- all fourth yr BITSians(Pilani).
It has been an exciting journey so far..and it has only just begun. We realise that there is enormous responsibilty that comes with becoming a grassroutes fellow. As was told in our confrence call with Keki and Shravya in the coming two-three weeks our focus will be on understanding the mapped NGO well and discussing how best to use the ten days of …