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In Rajasthan, il teatro dei burattini vanta una lunga tradizione. Come in molte culture, narra le storie di Re e Regine, Demoni e Dei, ma anche eroi vicini the traditional culture of the village. A
Tilonia, the Barefoot College , puppets, however, play a special role is to give voice to people's problems: the disputes between families on issues village, problems related to economic hardship, work, debts incurred by the heads of families, early marriage, environmental degradation, the rights are not recognized.

Ram Niwas, the head of the theater, built himself, with his aides, the papier-mache puppets that are made for all events. In a small laboratory and some women sew the costumes.
The characters are those of the local: the same Bunker Roy (pictured below), Aruna, his wife, and all the leaders of the Barefoot College, but also the Wise, the usurer, the midwife, the schoolmaster, the redshank, and so on.


The small theater company will move from village to village, collecting during the day the testimony of people (adults and children) who want to put before the public a problem or address an important issue. Ram Niwas then wrote together with the other actors in the film company, discussing the various aspects of the issue to try to bring the topic to the audience effectively.


the evening, finally, in front of the whole village, is staged representation, preceded by an introduction of the most famous puppet of Tilonia: Jockim Cha Cha (pictured above, Ram Niwas is painting the face of Jockim), the wise uncle who opened the evening, explaining to viewers that will happen during the play, talks with them and reap the moral at the end of the show.
His words are held in high regard: Ram Niwas tells us that once, for example, was through him that the women of a village who were working to build a stretch of highway, you convisero on strike for higher wages and fair a more dignified way.
Power of Theater!

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Solar barefoot

"even a single Deepest lamp dispels the darkness " - MK Gandhi
(even a single lamp can illuminate the darkness deeper)



Another very interesting and particularly relevant to the travel-related reportage Tilonia to document the various aspects of the Barefoot College is the development of electrification by solar energy.
In fact, the College began many years ago to take an interest to solar energy as a viable alternative to the chronic lack of electricity in Indian villages. In 1984 a Danish development agency installs Tilonia in the early solar panels, refer servicing to an engineer who had to return shortly after, leaving the College to wonder how we could do to ensure its effective functioning. Thus was born the solar laboratory, which soon turned into a school whose purpose was and is to train barefoot solar engineers able to independently manage the assembly and maintenance of solar energy equipment.
This decision is well within the policy of the College which aims to demystify the technology and decentralize the power and ability to manage independently. It is then a position rather close to that of Gandhi, who certainly did not look favorably technological progress takes away jobs for people and the delivery into the hands of pochi che lo possono controllare. Lo stesso Bunker sostiene che la tecnologia può essere introdotta nel villaggio solo se lo stesso è in grado poi di gestirne ogni aspetto senza dover dipendere da esperti venuti dalla città.
Fin dagli anni '80 quindi il Barefoot College iniziò a formare persone analfabete o semianalfabete, soprattutto donne, alla costruzione e alla manutenzione di lampade, batterie, pannelli solari e fornelli solari. La scelta ricadde all'inizio sulle ragazze del villaggio perchè si mostrarono molto interessate e motivate ad imparare e, grazie alle nuove competenze acquisite, poterono poi lentamente guadagnarsi una posizione migliore nell'ambito della società (e persino uno stipendio!).
Una delle scommesse most important of the College was then to export the system barefoot solar engineers in backward rural areas of India and the world.
In the early '90s a number of solar panels were installed in some villages of Ladakh, where the remoteness and difficult access to some areas made it almost completely excluded from procurement of electricity and where the long cold winters caused many difficulties for the villagers.


The Barefoot College and also arrived in Afghanistan, improving the de facto system of life of many villages. And then, Africa and Latin America.
E 'Bunker personally visiting the areas most backward in the world, talking to village leaders to convince because they send a few people, preferably female, to learn this craft. So
90s over a thousand people have gone to college and remaining 6 months of training before being able to return home bringing with them new technologies and new perspectives.
Women are very proud to contribute to the development of their villages, not counting the economic benefits of the use of solar energy. It is estimated a huge savings in kerosene, coal, wood (which are normally used for cooking and lighting homes) in addition to environmental benefits.
As Gandhi suggested to spin cotton in India daily to ensure its independence from the systems 'official' market which required imported products and to exploit and exhaust the resources of the Indians, the Barefoot College is proposing the system of learning by doing where also the implementation of technological tools such as those at solar energy, there is the opportunity to regain independence and freedom.

But the usefulness of this system is also to be able to build trust the most vulnerable and seemingly without prospects: women in particular have the opportunity to improve their lives and those of the village community despite without licenses or without education. Also in this area, therefore the most important job is the most difficult is to change the mentality of individuals to open to possibilities never seen before.

Saturday, October 2 you are invited to see my documentary on the Barefoot College in the International Festival Ferrara 2010. At room
Boldini, via G. Previati, 18 in Ferrara (in the center, just steps from the Teatro Comunale). At 18.00

the photo of the monks carrying the solar panels is Mr. Bhurji photographer died prematurely in service at the Barefoot College for many years. It 's a picture-symbol of the College.

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Shelf healthy ... or what purports to be?

We are in times when the ability to communicate becomes a decisive weapon in many industries and also, of course, the products sector oven. Often, however, the "substance" will clash on the entire system of communication that is made of so-called healthy product. We then made a tour of the various supermarkets the area of \u200b\u200bRome and province and we have had first hand experience that the market segment of "healthy" is growing. The spaces inside the stores, have undoubtedly multiplied during the last 7-8 years. But the quality of these products reflect the concept of "healthy" as advertised? And, among other things, certainly justify such high prices per kilo? certainly will not mention brands because I certainly have the economic interest. But what I would do with this post, and raise doubts and also push the consumer a bit 'lazy to read the label always looking to buy a mark, what promises to be there so you do not find yourself in the cupboard, just a bunch of gibberish.

Shortbread Organic No added sugar: undoubtedly interesting to monitor the intake of sugar daily. They are used to sweeten, apple juice concentrate and rice syrup. But it's also used a mysterious vegetable oil. Clearly we should expect, if not mentioned, the worst talking healthy vegetable oil (even olive oil is a vegetable oil ... why not specify it on the label then ?!?!). We ate and we found poor in flavor and truly difficult to swallow too much of the blame ... leavening agents? O fat used very unhealthy, and called in a very enigmatic?

Biscuits Organic puffed rice, unleavened: coming from a very traditional school in terms of production of bakery products can not deny that the biscuit without yeast is one thing that fascinates me. We put him there: a pinch, but we'll put it (0.15% on the total mass of the dough, very little). They, however, the rise by advertising its high digestibility. I feel I have to say though, that put 0.15% or not to put no longer affects di tanto l’effettiva digeribilità, tanto pubblicizzata, del prodotto . Anche perché i fattori che influenzano la digeribilità di un biscotto non sono riconducibili unicamente al lievito, ma anche e soprattutto al grasso utilizzato . E non facciamo neanche in tempo a parlare di grassi che rispunta l’olio vegetale non specificato . Però mettono lo zucchero di canna … Sapore non definito e inconsistente al palato.

Frollini al Kamut con Gocce di Cioccolato, Bio: questi frollini che abbiamo assaggiato sono i più interessanti per quanto riguarda la lista degli ingredienti. Farina di Kamut, e olio extravergine Olive . No doubt an excellent choice of fat. Yet there is something else again: the chocolate chips are not well , or beyond the cocoa butter and other fats are various emulsifiers. There is also an ingredient in biscuits, I do not understand much: salt. The confectionery industry uses it in many recipes. Likely to enhance the flavor of a product that does not have much taste. We absolutely do not use: make a cookie with more raw materials on the one hand increases the calories, but the other gives you more flavor. So better eat as much and eat poorly or less, but with Goduria?

We tasted and bought more. But the result is always the same. We see a considerable standardization in these products: maybe change the characteristic ingredient but the refrain is always the same. In terms of fat there really is a very low level of quality, which clashes violently with a concept that's healthy now, the industry has reinterpreted his own way. How often has already happened.