Where I Come From Was Always Enough
The story of Vivo, a Nature Guide from Khonoma, Nagaland, who learned to see the extraordinary in the ordinary, and returned home with a new way of understanding where he came from. In the hill village of Khonoma, Nagaland, surrounded by forests, medicinal plants, and ancestral knowledge, Vivo grew up without realising just how rich his home was. Forests were for foraging, snakes were to be avoided, and caterpillars were just pests. It wasnʼt until his elder brother told Vivo about a government-sponsored opportunity through the Skill Development initiative by the Government of Nagaland, that things began to shift. Fresh out of a masterʼs degree in...
A Part of the Whole, and the Whole in Every Part
The story of Chandrashekar Koira, a Nature Guide with a childlike curiosity for learning from the land. In a quiet village at the foothills of Nandi Hills, where mist settles over the trees and birds greet the morning, Chandrashekar Koira grew up feeling deeply at home in nature. For him, the forest wasn’t an escape. It was his habitat. But over time, even the places that raised us begin to change. Koira Lake in his village is a subjoin of the Arkavathi River catchment It feeds into the veins of south Indiaʼs water network, eventually joining the Kaveri, one of the regionʼs lifelines. What was once...