The Hakki Pikkis are an entrepreneurial community. Theirs is an economy of subsistence and the marginalised. Their trade networks do not conform to the known notions of the ‘poor’.

It is a communal practice with the water shared among families and an integrated form of farming comprising forestry, horticulture, agriculture, fishery and animal husbandry.

Through the exchange of concerns, brainstorming solutions, and emphasising citizen-authority cooperation, the event demonstrated how hypothetical ideas can become a reality.

Urban foraging of edible plants in Bengaluru.

प्रकृति को निहारना, पक्षियों को देखना, उनकी आवाजें सुनना सुकून व शांति देता है।

Through barley, the mela projected an inter-connected web of life and how the death of any one of those nodes disturbs the entire web leading to ills and illnesses of many kinds. 

Conservation of traditional Himachali designs, and promotion of rural and women development through skill development, employment generation and independence

This regenerated, natural ‘forest-farm’ with its pristine, unpolluted environment, is ideal to pick up lessons in biodiversity and sustainable living

पेड़ लगाने, जल संरक्षण, जैविक खेती इत्यादि काम करने से यह विस्थापित गांव आत्मनिर्भर बन रहा है|