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Pankaja Srinivasan

Coimbatore

Journalist at Freelance

Consulting Editor at Gaon Connection

Independent journalist

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  • 2 weeks ago | thehindu.com | Pankaja Srinivasan

    These trees came as immigrants, made friends with the locals and now are upstanding inhabitants of Coimbatore providing priceless service to the city and its people. Architect, Jayashree Raman says trees offer a wealth of natural solutions to various design challenges.

  • 2 months ago | thehindu.com | Pankaja Srinivasan

    We are at the Kolkata Centre for Creativity where I am trying to sneak a picture of a block print of cultural icon Begum Akhtar on a blouse. Its wearer, Mamta Varma, runs Bhairavi’s Chikan in Lucknow, with 300 women who do fine chikankari embroidery. Noting my interest she reveals that the unusual blouse was made by Meeta Mastani, co-founder of Delhi-based printmakers Bindaas Unlimited, to commemorate the singer’s 100th birthday.

  • Aug 14, 2024 | thehindu.com | Pankaja Srinivasan

    Twenty-five years before India got her Independence, a market town in the United Provinces (now Uttar Pradesh) shot into infamy because of a grisly incident. In February 1922 , a police station in the small town was set on fire and this led to Gandhi suspending his non-cooperation movement that he had launched about two years earlier. No more than a paragraph or two was devoted to this incident in my school history textbook.

  • Jul 3, 2024 | livemint.com | Pankaja Srinivasan

    My first response to reading The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai was envy. Why can’t I write like this? Simple, heartwarming and unputdownable even to me sitting in Coimbatore, thousands of miles from Kyoto where the book is set. Two non-fiction books I fell in love with this year are also this alphabet soup of food, culture, trade and history.

  • Jul 3, 2024 | htsyndication.com | Pankaja Srinivasan

    New Delhi, July 4 -- My first response to reading The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai was envy. Why can't I write like this? Simple, heartwarming and unputdownable even to me sitting in Coimbatore, thousands of miles from Kyoto where the book is set. Two non-fiction books I fell in love with this year are also this alphabet soup of food, culture, trade and history.

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7 Sep 23

A labour of love.

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Neelesh Misra @neeleshmisra

Gaon Connection has released a new book dedicated to the nearly 10 million teaching workforce of the country. Here is the link, in case you wish to flip through it, or share with someone. Free download link: https://t.co/EDkTV8ci5f @GaonConnection @GaonConnectionE https://t.co/NLJ1jOf8yk

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4 Jan 23

RT @JamwalNidhi: 📣 ANNOUNCEMENT 📣 @GaonConnection launches a special project — Teacher Connection — to document stories of teachers from a…

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pankaja srinivasan @pankajasrini
1 Dec 22

The women in rural India...things we did not know about them.

Nidhi Jamwal
Nidhi Jamwal @JamwalNidhi

Tomo, Dec 2, @GaonConnection is turning 10! And we have two important releases scheduled to celebrate its tenth anniversary. 50 Success Stories of Rural Women in the Pandemic - an e-book. A Slice of Rural India - 10 Themes. 10 Stories. 10 Days. Visit https://t.co/2MyRrLqRPD https://t.co/WazL4JSwp0