Tag: India
People who live in the desert dream about water
“People who live in the desert dream about water.” That’s what my friend said, anyway. I just got back from a short stay in my friend’s small desert village in northern Rajasthan, India. It is a village covered in sand, far from any town–a village so remote that it took three phone calls and three hours to get me a paracetamol (aspirin) for a fever I was having. One night…
Our Micro-Grid Safari
Even though they have been around for decades, microgrids have become a buzz word among energy folks lately, especially in the rural electrification world.
Notes Off the Field in India – from food and culture to climate and reality
Farming pushes forward using alternate irrigation sources (wastewater and borewells) during a weak monsoon season in Southern India in 2012. Photo Credit: Sharada Prasad CS Pre-monsoon days in the city of Dharwad are peppered with the rhythmic honks, beeps and stops of barreling buses, autos, cars, motorbikes, parades and swarms of people rushing to work or to the market. Spending three months last summer for field research in central Kannada,…