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Anubhuti Announcements

Presenting our Anti Discrimination Committee 2021!

Honored to announce our Anti Discrimination Committee members! All of them belong to marginalized communities and identities, and have lived experiences of discriminations due to social hierarchies. Do go through their profiles, we are truly privileged to have them. Many a times Bahujan representation remains tokenist. We strive to dismantle such practices, and are privileged … Continue reading Presenting our Anti Discrimination Committee 2021!

Anubhuti Uncategorised

IDR covers our Youth-led research in 3 languages – Toilet facilities at Maharashtra’s Bus Depots

https://idronline.org/bn/article/water-sanitation/the-missing-piece-in-sanitation-access-for-nomadic-and-denotified-tribes/ https://idronline.org/gu-in/article/water-sanitation/the-missing-piece-in-sanitation-access-for-nomadic-and-denotified-tribes/ https://idronline.org/mr-in/article/water-sanitation/the-missing-piece-in-sanitation-access-for-nomadic-and-denotified-tribes/

Anubhuti Youth Leadership

Support for a free Library for rural & Adivasi students

In the suburb of Badlapur, about 2 hours from Mumbai, for a cluster of close to 10 villages and Adivasi Padas, there is not a single public library.  For girls and boys living here, this means no access to books, newspapers, computers or the internet outside of school or college. Anyway, the schools and (only 1) … Continue reading Support for a free Library for rural & Adivasi students

Anubhuti Announcements

Mann Boli Book Published!

https://yourstory.com/socialstory/2025/05/deepa-pawars-book-is-contextualising-mental-health-for-marginalised-communities Mann Boli is a grassroots attempt to look at mental health from the perspective of Justice and Equality. It has examples from the grassroots, that remind us of the commitment to Constitutionalism and Human Rights while moving towards Mental Health. Mental health is a matter of human dignity, respect, and leadership along with health. This book brings forth this concept, through stories, … Continue reading Mann Boli Book Published!

Anubhuti Awareness and Advocacy, Stakeholder Sensitisation

At the Counter Narratives Conference

We had a powerful experience few days before at the Counter Narratives Conference by Mariwala Health Initiative in collaboration with KC College and HSNC University, Mumbai. It was an honor to have a role in setting the context for the two-day Conference, as our Founder Deepa Pawar was the Opening Plenary Speaker . With panels … Continue reading At the Counter Narratives Conference

Anubhuti Youth Leadership

Developing Scientific Thought in Adolescent Girls

This event was designed to support and encourage scientific thinking in adolescent girls and young women from Nomadic Denotified Tribes, Adivasi and rural communities.  We feel an organizational and constitutional responsibility to facilitate scientific, critical, investigative, experimental, observation and questioning skills within youth.  As part of our commitment to the next generation, Anubhuti co-ordinated a … Continue reading Developing Scientific Thought in Adolescent Girls

Anubhuti Announcements

Mental health justice: How philanthropy can lead to systemic change

The need for culturally rooted and community knowledge led interventions in MentalHealth, in context of historical, intergenerational criminalization and trauma that communities like the Nomadic and Denotified Tribes have experienced, is highlighted in this piece.  As Deepa Pawar says, “Mental illness in our community is a systemic consequence of criminalisation, social injustice, and marginalisation. It … Continue reading Mental health justice: How philanthropy can lead to systemic change