office te waadi | office to hamlet_ 🌱

it was the drizzly morning of 9th august 2016. my field co-worker abhinav and i were supposed to visit pen city for the first time. we had prepared to take an early train from panvel to reach on time. the pen city is two and a half hours far from mumbai. unfortunately, we missed the first train because we couldn't figure out the distance between the institute and panvel and got late to reach like two of the afternoon.

the day was as cloudy as typical of western maharashtra's rainy season. we went to the office and saw three people were working. we had an introduction with all. including two of us, everyone was non-adivasi until one activist entered the office. sanjay works as a hostel super-wiser and is a crucial leader of the katkari adivasi community in organizing rallies and advocating rights. we couldn't talk much with him because he was in a bit rush and went back immediately. we asked a person sitting in the cabin to let us see the city first. then we could also visit an adivasi wadi. he talked to his colleague wasanti taai to be accompanied us.

📑 in the mountains of sahyadri_
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