In The Field

Aug 20, 2020

Kaalavastha - It starts with a drought

Kerala has been marked by devastating floods in 2018 and 2019. But the state has been experiencing the effects of climate change for much longer. Scientists talk about 2015 as a sort of turning point. In this e...

26 mins

Aug 14, 2020

Kaalavastha - trailer

Welcome to Kaalavastha. A word which conjures so many things in Malayalam: clouds, climate, the weather. In this 6 part series, we dive deep into God’s Own Country, past romantic ideas about rivers and mountain...

5 mins

Aug 11, 2020

Announcing a new miniseries on the environment and resilience

Announcing a new series on In the Field. The story of a state, the story of the weather, and the story of a people, chronicled over six episodes. Kaalavastha drops later this week on this feed. Subscribe now to...

2 mins

Jun 04, 2020

"We want to hear from you."

ITF is back! In this mid-series episode we want to talk about how non-profits are dealing with the pandemic and we ask a few of our friends and colleagues about what they’ve been experiencing. Right now we have...

21 mins

Jul 02, 2019

“You get scale and pace at the price of building decision making structures and trust.”

The past decade has seen a proliferation of movements all over the world. Fighting for everything from racial equality, to end authoritarianism and corruption, for struggling farmers, for climate action, for ne...

38 mins

Apr 05, 2019

"The five-year old will say OK, let’s stop eating seafood."

In part two of our two parter on sustainability, climate change and consumption, we’re going find out about our relationship to the things we love - Like fish, coffee, travelling. These are things that are freq...

36 mins

Feb 28, 2019

"The hardship takes a toll, you know."

Worklife in India has many elements to it, and we see the whole gamut of experiences in India from workers working with little or no welfare to more privileged workers, and increasingly all of us are working mo...

41 mins

Feb 18, 2019

Bonus Episode: Education as a right in India

Welcome to this very special bonus episode of In the Field. Stay tuned for our next In the Field episode, coming very soon. This episode is brought to you by Indus Action (www.indusaction.org), an organizatio...

15 mins

Jan 31, 2019

"We were people who were defined by these achievements in social development."

Development work is full of models. And a famous one originated in Kerala - it was so famous it defined the state’s identity in so many ways; it was credited for producing a literate, educated population, for e...

34 mins

Apr 26, 2018

“There is history in all our aspirations.”

The youth are a prized population, for they represent the much talked about demographic dividend and so countries are supposed to nurture and help them develop. However, most approaches are instrumentalist, and...