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This Dussehra, add another reason to celebrate by bringing more play, laughter, and learning into a child’s life.

Your contribution of ₹250 supports a child with learning materials, hands-on STEM activities, and opportunities to make sense of the world around them for a whole year.

Help reimagine childhood in Bastar. Donate now by scanning the QR. by @ashishshrivasta

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8 hours ago

What if every child could grow up surrounded by love, joy and possibility? 💛

In Bastar, years of conflict have shaped the childhoods of many children. Today, we have an opportunity to imagine something different — a childhood filled with play, discovery, learning and belonging.

I believe every child deserves that chance. And together, we can help make it possible.

Join me in reimagining childhood in Bastar.
Your contribution of ₹2,000 can support one child for an entire year.
💛 Contribute today by scanning the QR by @ashishshrivasta

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4 days ago

✨ **Happy @daanutsav !** ✨

May you celebrate the kind of giving that brings you the most joy. 💛

Give time. Give care. Give kindness. Give a child a happier childhood.

Join us at **Shiksharth** and experience the **Joy of Giving**.

#DaanUtsav #JoyOfGiving #Shiksharth #childhood by @ashishshrivasta

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18 days ago

Before any programme, childhood comes first. 💛

At Shiksharth, our work with children in Bastar keeps reminding us of the power of human connection.

Sitting beside a child. Listening without rushing. Joining a game whose rules only they understand. These small moments build trust and tell a child: you matter, and I want to be here with you.

That’s why Bachpan is Gr8 Hour feels so close to our hearts.

This DaanUtsav, 2–8 October, gift a child an hour of undivided attention.

📱 Put your phone away.
🌿 Let them choose what you do.
🎨 Play, wander, draw, listen.
💛 Follow their lead.

We believe everyone with a child around them should experience this—as a parent, teacher, caregiver, neighbour or friend.

Afterwards, pause and ask yourself: What did I discover when I let the child lead?

Sharing is optional. Being present is the point.

Clear an hour. A child has plans for you. ✨

Take the pledge:
bachpanmanao.org/bachpan-is-gr8-hour/

#BachpanIsGr8Hour #DaanUtsav #Shiksharth #BachpanManao #CelebrateChildhood JoyOfGiving by @ashishshrivasta

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18 days ago

The EOI is closed. The journey begins.

Over the past few weeks, people from different places, professions and experiences have written to us with one thing in common - a curiosity to understand Bastar by coming closer.

Thank you for trusting us with your questions and your reasons for wanting to be here.

We now begin the difficult part: bringing together 20 residents with different starting points, different perspectives and a willingness to listen.

And alongside that, we begin putting together the people, places and encounters that will make the Residency what we imagined it to be.

Nirman Residency - Bastar Chapter
28 November–3 December 2026
South Bastar

Missed the EOI but feel strongly about being part of it?
7828581841 | hello@nirmanyatra.com

The applications may have closed.
The questions are just beginning. by @ashishshrivasta

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18 days ago

What if you came to Bastar without trying to understand it too quickly?

A haat. A forest. A shared meal.
A conversation that stays with you.
A story you agree with. Another you don’t.
And perhaps, somewhere between them, a better question.

Nirman Residency is Five days of listening, experiencing, questioning and learning alongside people who live and shape the many realities of Bastar.

Not to arrive at one version of Bastar.
Not to leave with easy answers.

Come curious. Leave with better questions.

28 November–3 December | South Bastar
EOI closes 30 September.

Apply through the link in bio. by @ashishshrivasta

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21 days ago

Who gets to tell the story of a place?

Perhaps the better question is: why should there be only one?

For Nirman Residency, we want to come closer to Bastar through people who experience its changes differently - those who live here, build here, question things, preserve things, leave, return, remember, and imagine what comes next.

Not to find the story of Bastar.

To listen to enough of them that a single story no longer feels sufficient.

Nirman Residency | Bastar Chapter
28 Nov–3 Dec 2026 | South Bastar
EOI closes 30 September.
(link in Bio)

Illustrations are based on reference photographs and are used for representational purposes. by @ashishshrivasta

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25 days ago

Everyone has an hour. 🕐

It is already sitting somewhere in your day, waiting to be spent with a child.

Swipe through for exactly where to find yours, and give it this DaanUtsav, between 2 and 8 October.

Pledge your Bachpan is Gr8 Hour: https://bachpanmanao.org/bachpan-is-gr8-hour/?clock=true
For more ideas: https://bachpanmanao.org/bachpan-is-gr8-hour/

Link in bio.

#BachpanIsGr8Hour #BachpanManao #DaanUtsav2026 by @ashishshrivasta

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25 days ago

We opened the Expression of interest for the residency with a question.
The responses are giving us many more.

That feels like a good beginning for Nirman Residency, different people arriving with different curiosities, without needing to arrive at the same conclusions.

EOI closes 30 September.

Nirman Residency
28 Nov–3 Dec 2026 | South Bastar | 20 residents

#NirmanResidency #NirmanYatra #Bastar

PS: Images used are for illustrative purposes only. Copyright belongs to the respective rightful owners. by @ashishshrivasta

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a month ago

There is a difference between travelling through a place and allowing a place to unsettle what we think we know.

Nirman Residency is being shaped around that difference.

We are not entering Bastar to explain it, romanticise it, or search for a convenient conclusion. We are creating time to listen - to people whose experiences may not agree with one another, but are all part of the region’s present.

The residency will ask participants to stay with complexity: to notice what is changing, understand what different people wish to protect, and examine the assumptions they themselves bring into the room.

The aim is not to return with one definitive story about Bastar.

It is to return more attentive, more responsible, and perhaps a little less certain than before.

Expressions of Interest for Nirman Residency: Bastar in Transition are now open.

28 November–3 December 2026
South Bastar, Chhattisgarh
20 residents

EOI link in bio.

Visuals are representational.

#NirmanResidency #BastarInTransition #NirmanYatra #SouthBastar #ImmersiveLearning by @ashishshrivasta

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a month ago

The dates are set.

28 November — 3 December 2026.
Five days in South Bastar.

Staying in the region. Meeting people who call it home. Listening to those living and shaping its transition.

If you’ve been following Nirman Residency and wondering when you can be part of it - save the dates.

Applications opening soon.

Tag someone you’d want to experience this with.

#NirmanResidency #NirmanYatra #SouthBastar #Bastar #Chhattisgarh by @ashishshrivasta

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a month ago

What kind of person belongs in Nirman Residency?

We do not have one fixed answer.

You may work in development, public policy, education, ecology, livelihoods, media or community action. You may come from an entirely different field, carrying questions that do not fit neatly into any category.

What matters is how you arrive.

With the willingness to listen before forming conclusions. To meet people whose experiences and viewpoints may differ from your own. To question familiar narratives and your own assumptions along with them.

For five days, 20 residents will travel, learn and reflect together in South Bastar.

If this feels like a journey you would enter with openness and attention, we invite you to express your interest.

Expression of Interest form: link in bio.

Please share this with someone whose questions may belong here.

#NirmanResidency #NirmanYatra #Bastar #SouthBastar #Chhattisgarh ImmersiveLearning by @ashishshrivasta

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