After living in Narayanpur District, Bastar Division of Chhattisgarh for the past one and half year, and wasting away precious time and moments which i should have documented in the past, i am now going to start putting my thoughts together.
Why this sudden decision you ask? Because now i have more time at hand than ever in the last year, i am free from file-work, i am mulling over when to call it quits and more importantly, there is so much to share!
Since i don't want this to be just a routine blog post sharing my experiences about my work, i am developing a USP for this blog. It is quite easy to get a USP, considering that i am living in the remote corner at the centre of this country and working here as a Prime Minister's Rural Development fellow. But then, there are over a hundred other young committed fellows out there who have better documentation and writing skills than me. So, what makes my blog special?
Simple - it will give a lot of information about this district, something that we can't yet find on the world wide web, but intermingled with my experiences. That way, i can get you to read through my journey too ;-). More importantly, most of the information will be collected by me through official documents, material in hindi, newspaper articles, heard anecdotes, stories, etc. With it, i will attempt to create a picture of the web that Narayanpur is. Numbers and statistics used here will turn stale in no time. So, i will try to mention the date on which the data held true. So, if in future a different number is obtained, we will already have two points on our trend-line.
Why is this called the Narayanpur trials? Because, it is, at the core, a documentation of whatever i am trying out in Narayanpur, of my experiments here, of my thoughts and whatever little fruition our combined efforts have had here. Living, working and surviving in Narayanpur is also no less than a trial of the other kind.
Most importantly, it has a nice ring. To my ears.
Why this sudden decision you ask? Because now i have more time at hand than ever in the last year, i am free from file-work, i am mulling over when to call it quits and more importantly, there is so much to share!
Since i don't want this to be just a routine blog post sharing my experiences about my work, i am developing a USP for this blog. It is quite easy to get a USP, considering that i am living in the remote corner at the centre of this country and working here as a Prime Minister's Rural Development fellow. But then, there are over a hundred other young committed fellows out there who have better documentation and writing skills than me. So, what makes my blog special?
Simple - it will give a lot of information about this district, something that we can't yet find on the world wide web, but intermingled with my experiences. That way, i can get you to read through my journey too ;-). More importantly, most of the information will be collected by me through official documents, material in hindi, newspaper articles, heard anecdotes, stories, etc. With it, i will attempt to create a picture of the web that Narayanpur is. Numbers and statistics used here will turn stale in no time. So, i will try to mention the date on which the data held true. So, if in future a different number is obtained, we will already have two points on our trend-line.
Why is this called the Narayanpur trials? Because, it is, at the core, a documentation of whatever i am trying out in Narayanpur, of my experiments here, of my thoughts and whatever little fruition our combined efforts have had here. Living, working and surviving in Narayanpur is also no less than a trial of the other kind.
Most importantly, it has a nice ring. To my ears.
