by Shazar | Mar 6, 2020 | India, Mother Earth, Water Conservation
The heat is intense. She is flat on her back – the fan is on 3 .. whirring and clattering a little as it labours its way around its age. Stretched out on the striped floor mat, her sari loosened for the night – she cluthces a damp cloth in her hand used to...
by Shazar | Jan 19, 2019 | India, Mother Earth, Water Conservation
If you are reading this it is more than likely that you will have woken up this morning and found as you usually do that the taps turn on and water flows to clean your teeth or take your shower. This morning I woke early as a friend arrived on the early train. All was...
by Shazar | Jul 6, 2018 | consciousness, Environment, India, Mother Earth, Water Conservation
It’s time to create a tribe.. A tribe of Water Warriors. It wasn’t that hard when I was working with the kids at the Shikshangram Shelter.. they created a tribe just in themselves and then whoever came to visit joined with the full open hearts. All it...
by Shazar | Feb 3, 2017 | India, travel, Water Conservation
I’m not going to say ‘only in India’.. but sometimes that phrase does feel appropriate and today.. well – I had interesting experiences at the carpentry shop! We are in a big town called Nizamabad – staying at a lodge right in the middle...
by Shazar | Oct 19, 2016 | consciousness, Environment, India, Water Conservation
Pathoda Village in Maharasthra India – has experienced miracles. And while there yesterday I was privileged to witness three of them. The first and most astounding happens nightly in a small corrugated iron house in this remote village. Here there is an altar...
by Shazar | Oct 13, 2016 | consciousness, Environment, India, Mother Earth, Water Conservation
I am taking the liberty of offering these words of wisdom from a friend and exceptionally well informed and thoughtful person Vishwanath Srikantaiah. His writing and photography documenting the situation with the water crisis here in India is profound – please...