Bhoomi Utsav 2022

A celebration of simplicity with the community, on October 2, 2022. A special kind of celebration indeed, celebrating simple joys of life that we may otherwise take for granted. Be it playing with natural colours we made, or clay, enjoying a concert with plants and being in their presence, exploring treasures of nature, seeing Gandhiji’s…

Is water simple?

The idea of simplification is idealised to an extent where we often tend to simplify what is purely complex. Take emotions: we think there is logic to it. The logic being simple and linear, we tend to think emotions follow the same rule too. Emotions are associative to a large extent. But how does simplicity…

Wells Talk to Us, Taps Don’t

In a small town called Vijaywara in Karnataka, farmers are using untreated wastewater and fecal sludge to grow mulberry leaves. On these leaves, silkworms thrive producing silk yarn, which is then woven into beautiful handloom silk sarees by the local weavers. Can there be a more productive use of city sewage water, which is a…

Bhoomi Senior Fellowship Awards 2019

Bhoomi Senior Fellowship Awards was created about 2 years ago. The aim was to honour and recognize the work of extraordinary individuals who are working tirelessly in areas of ecological living and holistic education.

In Search of Well Being: Guide to the Speakers

As leading activists, public intellectuals, practitioners, and community leaders, the distinguished speakers at the Bhoomi International Conference ‘In Search of Well-being’ have been among the prominent voices calling to question the current social, economic and environmental models. In their life’s work, they have put together a concrete vision for a future that continues to guide…

Helena Norberg-Hodge: The promise and pitfalls of localism

The fact that the language of localism is being increasingly co-opted by authoritarians around the world is itself a sign of localism’s appeal. Left uprooted and adrift by the globalized economy, people are desperate for a sense of connection: to one another, to the living world, to a place and culture that’s familiar to them….

When Bhoomi College students turned Guerrilla Gardeners

Two months of internship period for Bhoomi College students turned out to be an opportunity for a few of us to get our hands dirty. A 2500 Sq.Ft. empty plot in the neighbourhood has become our land for experimentation and learning. We started with the objective of trying out different farming concepts which we learned during our…

Can local markets put an end to farmer suicides?

Farmers are not people who need hand-holding or patronising, they deserve the highest respect in our society and we should ensure they get it in loads. We cannot have 12000 farmers commit suicide a year and just not talk about it. But the problems leading to farmer suicides never get highlighted. One of the many…

Can I make my daily cosmetics at home?

As part of our real life project, we were asked to work on something that we relate to and something that we felt would bring a sustainable change (albeit in small ways). Our group felt strongly about the amount of chemicals we happily apply onto our body, without even thinking about their long term side effects. The eye…

So what’s the Bhoomi Utsav all about?

Oct 2nd – A student led 1 day festival where hundreds of people come to buy organic products like farm produce and clothes and other necessities. This is what was told to us on the first day of our college. Since then we’ve heard of this day multiple times around various references. We wondered what this…