Almost thirteen years ago — shortly after I’d moved to Mysore — a group of us cycled to visit local community projects.

I wrote about it in the local paper ‘The Star of Mysore’

Organised by Sham Sunder from the National institute of Engineering here in Mysore we met activists to learn about their strong social and environmental conscience and the active projects they’d created.

One of the places we visited was Kaliyuva Mane — a school FOR children. A free residential alternative to traditional schools.

This was going to come back into my life in a very satisfying way.