Stories

23 posts

What kind of stories have you been reading about millets this past year? Through these stories, we want to bring you diverse and nuanced narratives featuring growers whose work we believe in, and underrepresented accounts of relationships with millets. We explore how complex the millet system really is, and their role in a fulfilling future for everyone.

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  • 6 min

Spending Sowing Day with Elubai and Govind Bhaiyya

  • Laxminarayan Devda
Elubai and Govind Bhaiyya—a farmer couple from Devasiya village in Madhya Pradesh—talk to Laxminarayan Devda about preparing for the Kharif sowing season, why they practise chemical-free farming, and how more farmers in the region can be encouraged to plant jowar.
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  • 6 min

बुआई का दिन एलुबाई और गोविंद भैया के साथ

  • लक्ष्मीनारायण देवड़ा
मध्य प्रदेश के देवसिया गांव के किसान दंपत्ति एलुबाई और गोविंद भैया ने लक्ष्मीनारायण देवड़ा से खरीफ की बुआई की तैयारी, रसायन मुक्त खेती क्यों करते हैं और क्षेत्र के अधिक किसानों को ज्वार की खेती के लिए कैसे प्रोत्साहित किया जा सकता है के बारे में बात की।
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  • 6 min

How to Catch Luck in a Pot

  • Mukta Patil, Shirin Mehrotra, Smit Zaveri, and Taiyaba Ali
What can make a day luminous? What can make millets fun, easy even? Friendships, and a little bit of faith, it seems. Mukta Patil, editor at the Millet Revival Project gathers some girlfriends, and perspectives, at this joyous millet-centric potluck in Delhi.
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  • 7 min

Demystifying Millets: A Beginner’s Glossary

  • Climate and Policy Lab, MRP
With the onslaught of online and offline content, we are inundated with words that we might be familiar with, but do not always understand the context in which they are used. This glossary attempts to demystify some of these terms used around millets.
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Reimagining the Future of Food, Comic-style

  • Quicksand and University of Dundee
Future of Food, a comic produced in English and Kannada, is set in 2035. An exercise in imagination, it asks what hopeful, localised futures look like for communities—especially rural and indigenous farmers in India—who are often excluded from these imaginations because of the nature of innovation and technology.
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  • 7 min

‘अभी भी, मैं आँखें बंद करता हूँ तो मुझे लगता है कि मैं ज्वार की आत्मा को देख रहा हूँ।’

  • Mukta Patil
किसान और फ़िल्म निर्देशक लक्ष्मीनारायण देवड़ा मुक्ता पाटील से बातचीत करते हुए बताते है कि उनकी दादी ज्वार कैसे बनाती थी, अच्छी फिल्मों का बोली और बेझिझक होने से क्या रिश्ता हैं, और ज्वार का पॉपकॉर्न लोगों को कैसे एकजुट करता है।
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