Him Jo Goonje

काशो िकन्नौिरंग मुखांग शारे दु कातिल जादू कते दु!

काशो िकतांग, बतांग, शतपे कता शारे पठांग दु! काशो टोपांग, काशो शेखै!

काशो िकन्नौिरंग वाले धम दु!

HIM JO GOONJE

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Introduction

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This Thesis project has left an indelible mark on my life. It has not just changed and facilitated a new way of seeing a landscape and engaging with the communities but has also nurtured my mental faculties only to look and understand the world more differently.

This project will always hold a special place, as it has provided me with innumerable learnings, and has inspired my ambitions in life.

Endless gratitude to Rustam Vania and Sanjay Barnela, who efficiently and brilliantly mentored me through this project. Thank you for motivating me, believing in my work and for seeing what it might become. A heartfelt gratitude to Vivek Singh Sangwan and Himanshu Bilochi, whose effervescent presence, informative discussions and passionate participation helped me broaden my project as well as my thought processes.

Deepest gratitude to the seminar panelists, Ridesh, Girish, Ajai for their invaluable feedback. Their comments, critiques and suggestions were highly enriching and helped in shaping the project.

A heartfelt thank you to Mr Bir Singh, Mrs Radhika Negi and Mr Haresh Kumar Sharma who relentlessly guided me through the enchanting Kinnaur and shared their knowledge and insights with the class. This project wouldn’t have been possible without them.

I also thank Soukarni Barai, whose constant presence, motivation, reassurance allowed me to breathe calmly throughout the project.

My delightful friends and fellow classmates, Charmaine Sah, Aniket Godbole, Soumya Jain, and Sudhanshu Dabral for constant feedback and collaborations. A big thank you to all of them for making the field trip and the project months extremely memorable.

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I am highly indebted to, Vikrant Mishra who pulled me every time I feared failure and constantly encouraged me. Soukarni Barai for enduring endless rants, for being a patient listener and for being my sunshine on the darkest days. A big thank you to Aniket Godbole for his kind words. A warm word for my great friend Priyanka Shah, who always managed to make me feel special and who believed in me and my work. Thank you Charmaine Sah for inspiration and constant strength. Jishnu Bandopadhyay and Aayushi Bharadwaj for always spreading cheer around. Niladri Mukherjee, for lending his voice to my radio segments and the technical help. They are an inseparable part of this project with whom I have shared moments of deep anxiety but also of big excitement.

Some special words of gratitude go to my mentors, Mamta Sagar, Vipin Bhati, Ravi Mani, Aastha Chauhan, Deepta Sateesh, Mrs Vijayalakshmi Kumar, and Mrs Rashmi Kapoor who have always been a major source of support when things would get a bit discouraging.

My deep appreciation goes out Mr Sreekanth, Mr Rajiv Ranjan Srivastava, Mrs Madhu Manjari, and Mrs Shalini Bharadwaj for supporting my project and providing finesse to my English-Hindi translations.

A big thankyou to my codwellers and friends, Nithya Balakrishnan, Swetha Ramachandran, Pragya Sinha and Saishree Bandekar for the constant encouragement and support.

Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology has provided me with a very stimulating environment in what concerns the extraordinary quality of its faculty, and that experience will leave marks beyond this project.

Last but not least, I would like to pay high regards to Mummy, Papa, Vanshi and Dadi for their sincere encouragement and inspiration throughout my project and lifting me uphill this phase of life. I owe everything to them. Besides this, several people have knowingly and unknowingly helped me in the successful completion of this project.

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INTRODUCTION The Trans-Himalaya region of Himachal Pradesh is a mystical land comprising arid high altitude desert. This absolutely magnanimous landscape is a breathtaking panorama of high snow-capped peaks and bare multi-hued hills sculpted by the forces of nature. The vast rugged, arid high Himalayas is the home range of an elusive, solitary and endangered apex predator- the Snow Leopard, also known as the “mountain ghost”. The total habitat of the snow leopard in India is around 75,000 km2. With its wide distribution, precarious conservation status, immense aesthetic appeal, and elusive character, the snow leopard is considered as the flagship species of the high altitudes and an indicator species for Asia’s high mountain ecosystems.

With a keen interest to conserve this flagship species, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) with support from the Global Environment Facility(GEF), have joined hands to develop a project in the high altitude Himalayas entitled “Secure Himalayas.” The project aims at securing livelihoods, restoration of high range Himalayan ecosystem, conservation and sustainable use and development. The ‘Secure Himalaya’ project, is a landscape approach to the sustainable management of alpine pastures and forests in the high range Himalayan ecosystems to secure conservation of globally significant wildlife, including endangered snow leopard and their habitats.

The intensity and occurrence of threats varies throughout the region, but significant amount of degradation and loss of natural alpine meadows and sub-alpine habitats due to anthropogenic pressures, like excessive livestock grazing and retaliatory killings.

The project aims to safeguard India’s unique natural heritage of high altitude wildlife populations and their habitats by promoting conservation through participatory policies and actions. By bringing in creative and comprehensive campaigns and communication strategies, it focuses on the vast landscape of the Trans Himalayan range as a cornucopia of rituals, practices, traditional knowledge, myths, communities, teeming flora and fauna.

The Trans Himalayan tracts remained locked behind formidable mountains connected to the outside world by barely penetrable passes and narrow mountain paths. Despite this isolation and the harshness of the climate and environment, the people are endowed with a hardiness of character and natural gaiety. While local communities do come into conflict with wildlife, their relationship with wildlife and the landscape is far more complex and includes positive dimensions. Inorder to understand what is landscape ecology and conservation it is imperative to engage all stakeholders at all stages.

One of the key components of the project is to establish knowledge advocacy, communication and information system for both local and global audiences. Communication design, to engage and conduct dialogue can range from branding, publicity, awareness, interactive mapping systems, education and toolkits. By bringing together local communities, the Forest Department, local NGOs, educational institutons, design intervention can lead to new findings and understanding of possible areas of collaborations those lead to sustainable development and conservation.

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Explore and Immerse A Weekend at Bannerghata National Park Understanding the Field The Field (Immersion) Project Proposal Seminar 1 Feedback

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A Weekend at Bannerghata National Park Toolkit for A Rocha Foundation

Collaborators - Soukarni Barai and Vedika Lall

Two day stay at the Elephant County was a segway into conversations based on conservation, biodiversity, communities and human-animal conflict. Surrounded in the serenity and echoes of nature, John fed us with innumerable stories about the landscape alongside a hearty chicken curry. The Bannerghata National Park has a 285 km long boundary which makes it easily susceptible to high anthropogenic pressures on its fringes that is leading to increased human-wildlife interaction and conflict. There are close to 130 settlements that lie within 5km of the protected area. These tribals and locals have been heavily dependent on the forest for their livelihoods. Rapid urbanization and development has taken a toll on their survival as it is now illegal to poach animals. The visit to the Bannerghatta Biological Park was quite disappointing. More than animals, I could see trucks and tractors running helter-skelter in the park. The people were more interested in selfies rather than engaging with the animal. Can zoos and biological parks can be considered as a conservation practice?

How can these public places instil new ways of engaging with the animals? These questions led us to A Rocha foundation who work relentlessly in the field of conversation. A highly intriguing man, Mr Avinash Krishnan, introduced us to core threats and conservation practices, and a dire need for students and enthusiasts to come up with interventions and ideas.

After the conversation, Soukarni and I realised that we were thinking on the same lines, and we had an interesting conversation, where we shared our thoughts, questions and brainstormed few ideas. Soon, we realised it would be great to collaborate and create something useful for the A Rocha team. We spent two sleepless nights working towards creating a tool kit based on the lenses of Quantitative, Qualitative, Temporal, Spatial types of information. This toolkit is mainly for spreading awareness and bringing stakeholders together.

Through this toolkit we aim to address these threats to Bannerghatta and create a dialogue between all the primary stakeholders involved in its ecosystem. We hope that the interaction this generates empowers the local communities by sensitizing them to their endemic value and the burning need for its conservation. It encourages conservation and ecosystem protection by bringing all the stakeholders on a planar platform for communication and exchange.

It was an intense and highly informative assignment. The cherry on the cake was that I got to celebrate my birthday at the homestay where I found some great friends.

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The CHART As a group of six, an information mapping was done in the first week to understand the landscape and the project primary site better. Geography, flora, fauna, folklore, economic practices, and industries were recorded on the map.

Actor Network Theory map led us to make several connections and form links those were derived from the Snow Leopard.

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Actor Network Theory Map

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Understanding the Landscape Home of the sacred Kinner Kailash, Kinnaur lies in the east of Himachal bordering Tibet.

It is the secondary site for the Secure Himalayas Project and thus becomes an important area of study. The field study was done on contexts ranging from culture, traditional knowledge, Tibetan influences and religion, flora and fauna, cuisine, festivals, grievances, agriculture and economy. Kinnaur is booming with increasing level of literacy rate, rapid digitisation, apple cultivation, and with hydel power industries coming in.

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The State capital, our field visit began with official meetings with the State Forest Department and visit to historical sites and buildings.

The administrative headquarters of Kinnaur was the base of our field trip. Although the town and it’s major activities were shut due to harsh winters, we met a number of intersting people.

Meetings and Interviews -DR Savita(PCCF) -Mr Aneesh(DFo) -Dr Lal Singh(Head of Himalayan Research Group) -Mr Anil Verma(Programmer,AIR Shimla) -Dr.O.C.Handa(Scholar of History and Archeology) Locations Visited -The Gaiety Theatre -Indian Institute of Advanced Study -The Shimla State Museum -All India Radio Station, Shimla -Himachal Emporium

Interviews -Mr Angel Chauhan(DFo, Kinnaur dist.)

-Sonu Negi(Trek guide) -Anamika(school girl) -Gyan Prakash(shopkeeper) -Rohit Negi(Shopkeeper) -Gurkiran Negi(Housewife) -Bir Singh(Trek Guide and a warm host) -Shyam Lal Mehta(Gunsmith) Locations Visited -Forest Depatment -Kothi Temple -Bhairon(Shiv) Temple -Market Place -Craft Emporiums

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A closer look at the sacred Kinner Kailash, the locals believe that they have seen Shiv and Parvati reside in the Kailash. Snow covered apple orchards, the locals were found discussing the need of quality fodder for the cattle.

Sangla is located in the Baspa valley, close to the Tibet border.

There were men playing carrom while soaking the winter sun, while women walked on the icy pathways to offer their daily prayers.

Interviews -Kalpa’s Pradhan Rajesh -Shyam Saran Negi -Shephard’s Family

Interviews -Nikita -The Khaddi Woman

One of the most lively place, Ribba will always be etched in my fondest memory. From witnessing Lohsar festival, to being a part of a mourning cermony, to understanding the origin of the Buddhism, and dancing and eating the local cuisine with the community, three days in Ribba filled us with so much warmth and stories and information.

Locations Visited -Chandika Fort -Weavers House

Locations Visited -Bering Nag Temple

Interviews -Priya Negi -Sanam Degi -Sempa Dorje(Monk) -Radhika Negi(wife of Pradhan) -R.D.Negi -Tenzing Siwan Negi -Tanzin Nargu Negi - Dharma Devi -Krishna -Chandrika Negi Locations Visited -Dev Mandir -Bodh Mandir -Tanzin’s M.I room and clinic -Radhika Negi’s house

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THE FIELD The field trip to Kinnaur, the secondary site of the Secure Himalayas Project was an extensive immersion in the dynamic landscape. Walking is an evocative medium to witness and live the reality. It also helps in experiencing the landscape in new and more nuanced ways.

The inquiry in the field was conducted by being completely immersed in the process of walking and trekking. A highly ritualistic process, led to several discoveries, encounters, excavating stories and conceptualisations. Oral traditions which revolve around the the locals and which are a represtation of their consciousness and the landscape .

A combination of sketches, digital photography,sketches, journal entries, voice recordings, were used for documenting the landscape. It was imperative to understand how landscapes are meaningful and are involved in choreogrpahing of identities, and gathering of cultural and traditional knowledge.

Journal Entries

Meet the Community/People

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Meet the monk from Ribba, Sempa Dorje, who enlightened me with a short greeting narrated in Tibetan language, and the origin of synchretic culture and creation of Bhoti language. The story of Lotsa Rinpoche and how he played a seminal role in the transmission of Buddhism in the land of snow. One of the first monastery was created in Ribba.

Rohit Negi of Kothi welcomed us with a warm heart and hearty cup pf tea. He narrated his childhood encounter with the snow leopard and the legend of Chandika Devi.

With urbanisation and growth of hydel power plants, acid rain had dirty snow have reduced the quality of apples. He is an ardent listener of radio to keep in touch with the outside world.

Her mellifluous voice captured our hearts as she sang a tragic love song about a girl. Gurkiran Negi, opened her home and heart to fill us with immense joy and information about marriage practices of Kinnaur, “KhuKhu�(bride abduction) and the new ages marriage practices.

One of the most dynamic women I have come across, Radhika Negi and her vision to bring eco-tourism to Ribba was very well projected. She does care for her people and takes initiatives like Cleaning Days for the prosperity of Ribba. She took pride in talking about upliftment of women, equal rights, no caste discrimination, marriage outside community, compulsion for women to marry, respect for single daughters and Ribba being an open minded society.

Women of Kinnaur are extremely hardworking and proactive. On the day of Lohsar they gathered to discuss community grievances like frozen pipelines, preservation of Kinnauri language, the need of better fertilisers for crops, care for livestock and went ahead to practice their Bhoti language.

Determined and extremely caring, they fed us the specialies of Kinnaur and shared some kitchen secrets as well.

Tanzin Nargu Negi was a bank of traditional knowledge. He had spent his whole life practicing Tibetian medicine, using mecinal plants and indigenous herbs and curing ailments using the power of Yantra,Mantra and Tantra. Quite and eclectic fellow, he took us around his quaint house and mystical clinic. His red jacket matched with his talkative demeanor as he guided us through the snowbound Ribba.

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a peek into all india radio, shimla ALL INDIA RADIO, is not just the soul of the trans Himalayan Region but also the whole country. It has a vast and an extensive coverage and maximum population reach. Mr Anil Verma, the Programming Head at All India Radio, Shimla, gave a fluent introduction to this glorifying institution and also gave us a guided tour around the station. The information and content disseminated is thoroughly scrutinised and made sure to be credible. Dedicated to 18 hours of broadcasting, the segments range from news, infotainment, entertainment, women based, children based, labour/farmer/industry based

knowledge, science, health care and many more. With transmitters of the highest strength, radio acts as a suitable source of information dissemination as it can pass through the vagaries of rough topography of the Himalayas.

Highly localised, it creates content in 12 major dialects of Himachal Pradesh. Nowadys, it is also keeping up with the Social Media tools, and avaible on various platforms.

With 8% working force at the moment, All India Radio works extensively to keep up with the quality, credibilty and reliability of news and information.

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Why did I choose to work with audio? “I have aleays been intrigued by the sound and the power it holds.

With my practice as an artist and deisgner, I take immense care and effort to engage with the interview the communities I meet. With the power of listening and the approach of recording sounds and voices, I aim at giving voice and power to the local/ traditional knowledge and instilling the key idea of integrating human dimensions to improve and build conservation strategies as well as awareness.�

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PROJECT PROPOSAL The Landscape & the project The trans-Himalaya region of Himachal Pradesh is a mystical land comprising arid high altitude desert. This stark landscape is a breathtaking panorama of high snow-capped peaks and bare multi-hued hills sculpted by the forces of nature. The biodiversity here thus has a larger connotation and hence varies from simple genetic level to higher complexities of various species associations and their interrelationships. This landscape is also home to a magnificent yet elusive species of the Snow Leopard. With a keen interest to conserve this flagship species, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) with support from the Global Environment Facility(GEF), have joined hands to develop a project in the high altitude Himalayas entitled “Secure Himalayas.” The project aims at securing livelihoods, restoration of high range Himalayan ecosystem, conservation and sustainable use and development. The vast landscape of the Trans Himalayan range is a cornucopia of rituals, practices, traditional knowledge, myths, communities, teeming flora and fauna. As the threat to snow leopard survival is growing a lot due to anthropogenic activities, this species has been listed in the Red list of threatened species by the IUCN. With the current situation of the environment and its components, one cannot afford to lose another endemic species of fauna to uncharted negligence. Snow Leopards are the top carnivores of their ecosystem and hence, their importance to the ecological balance can’t be undermined. The threats to the endangered species of snow leopards range from climate change, illegal poaching and hunting, habitat encroachment and fragmentation, and retaliatory killing by livestock owners.

The key components1 of the project are• Conservation of key biodiversity areas and their effective management to secure long-term ecosystem resilience, habitat connectivity and conservation of snow leopard and other endangered species and their habitats • Securing sustainable community livelihoods and natural resource management in high range Himalayan ecosystems • Enhancing enforcement, monitoring and cooperation to reduce wildlife crime and related threats • Establishing knowledge advocacy, communication and information system Context Himachal Pradesh has 2/3rd of the geographical area as designated forest land and 90 per cent of the population is dependent on it for livelihood. The primary site for the Secure Himalaya Project are Lahaul and Spiti in Himachal Pradesh along with Upper Kinnaur being an additional monitoring site for further baseline studies. A multitude of tribal and pastoral communities reside in this region. Thus it is imperative to empower the inhabitants and the locals to work towards conservation and govern their natural resources. Conversation with the Principal Chief Conservator of Forest, Himachal Pradesh, Dr Savita led to a better understanding of this project and its needs. To fight the threats, forming a holistic conservation system and creating Snow Leopard as the mascot of Himachal Pradesh would promote tourism and awareness. Along with it developing well-defined books and brochures which amalgamate the communities, practices, wildlife and traditional knowledge, would aid in educating the tourists. Advertisements, signage and exhibitions would be an interesting way to engage the onlookers. A new range of supplementary education material for schools both locally and globally, can help in the better understanding of the overlying problems and can trigger conversations on conservation.

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Mr Anish Sharma (DFO Publicity, Ministry of Environment, Forests, and Climate) spoke highly of how media is an effective way to spread awareness in these Trans Himalayan regions.

Aakashvani, Doordarshan, local T.V. channels, press and publications, tableaus, trade fairs, periodicals are some of the on-going measures taken to spread awareness about the scheme’s progress and declarations made by the Forest Department.

Aims and objectives Each indigenous community showcases distinctive identities. There are areas of vast traditional knowledge that might be disappearing. UNDP aims at the baseline studies of 28 villages in Pangi and 7 in Lahaul which aim at more nature-scientific approach that delves into cultures and livelihoods. Through primary research and excavating stories, the aim of the project resonates with gathering, recording, and preserving a diverse range of personal experiences and histories which are passing on of a community’s knowledge, memory and experience by word of mouth.

Oral histories are vehicles of folklore, myths and stories interspersed with livelihoods, human – animal relationships, rituals, practices and therefore uphold strong cultural identities.

Why Radio?

The All India Radio, Shimla opened its doors with the words of Gandhi, “Main Radio mein Shakti dekhta hu.” Following these words, All India Radio has been paving its way to enlighten minds, spread awareness, educate the masses, entertain and create dialogue and interactions over myriad topics. With powerful transmitters over three major regions of Himachal, Shimla, Kullu and Kalpa, this government organisation reaches the masses in 12 major dialects. Across the tough topographical region of the Himalayas, Radio emerges as the most reliable and credible source of information.

‘Pradeshik Samachar’ aired on channel no 103.7 delivers news and local happenings all across Himachal. Interspersing folk media with mass media can prove to locate one’s cultural identity.

It also is a true carrier of culture among people both locally and globally. Himachal Pradesh harbours numerous ethnic groups with valuable characteristics and conservation of these practices is of high importance.

‘Preservation of Folk’ is another strategic and significant segment which allows discussion and creates awareness about the different communities and their specific folklores.

Mr Anil Verma, the Programme Director, provided an informed tour of All India Radio and claimed that every bit of information passed is thoroughly scrutinised. In conversations with the local shopkeepers and hotel attendants in Reckong Peo one realised that when T.V. signals and newspapers suffer the treacheries of harsh winter, radio keeps them connected with the outside world. With 8% working force at the moment, All India Radio works extensively and stands for credible information. The challenge lies in understanding how All India Radio can benefit from audio narratives and outsourced inputs, new content and collaborations as it merges with the new media and claims to be available on any digital and social platform.

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Approach, the Process and Immersion The area of study and research were villages and towns of the Upper Kinnaur arid Himalayan Region. Basking in untimely heavy snowfall, sauntering through the field and traversing the landscape, making acquaintances and recording stories and voices of several indigenous communities was an enriching experience.

The walking interview, thus emerged as a core practice along the trip as the study was based on understanding the culture, identity of place and urban change. Furthermore, the process of interviewing and building conversations created a connecting mobility of its own. Reckong Peo, Kalpa, Kothi village, Sangla and Ribbaunfurled innumerable stories on various themes like local cuisine, practices, the local deities, human-animal relationships, myths and folklore, folk songs, language upliftment, and personal stories. These stories fill in the gaps and give us history which includes everyone’s oral testimonies. Recording oral history can help one understand how culture and communities experience the forces of history and trace their growth and development. Oral history tool can be an effective and an evocative method to capture personal histories and traditional knowledge which don’t often make it to written or material history and thus give rise to appreciating of cultural identity amongst the communities and awareness about them globally.

With heart-warming gestures and over a few cups of warm tea, the locals opened doors to their culturally rich personal journeys. The upper Kinnaur region is a harmonious example of evolved syncretic cultures of Hinduism and Buddhism. Gompas (Monasteries) serve as a melting pot of prayers, learning new language (Tibetan), celebration, and community gatherings. Sempa Dorji, a monk in Ribba, traced the story of Sambhota who gave birth to the Bhooti language while Dharma Devi narrated her brave story of snow leopard attack while cooking some Thuk-pa. With the art of listening, such stories have been collected carefully. With the concept of hosting a marmara, the women of Ribba gathered on the eve of Lohsar festival (Buddhist New Year) to indulge in community cooking and mundane discussions. Radhika Negi and Priya Negi were two dynamic ladies, who showed utmost pride in their village Ribba and spoke about women, their status in the society and interventions for their upliftment.

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Research Questions • How can folk media which include folk songs, chants, conversations in local languages can be interspersed with emerging new media (internet) with the aim of creating awareness and uplifting cultural identity?

• In these trans-Himalaya region, where harsh winters do not allow print media to reach the households, how can radio and other interventions influence and impact the lifestyle and bring up awareness amongst the locals and also globally?

Target Audience This proposal aims at creating outputs that would be a cohesive, theme based collection of oral histories and personal narratives aimed at the local communities of the region. This would enable a collision of cultures and strengthening and preservation of identities. With the help of this project the local communities can voice their opinions and it can empower them to make informed and sustainable decisions about their lifestyle and development. Alongside the locals, the transcribed oral history collections can help researchers, scholars, authors working in a particular landscape. Globally, the audience can learn and become aware about nuanced systems nestled in different cultures of various landscapes.

Similar Work Done • http://storymaps.esri.com/stories/2018/eden-walk-milestones/ A Story map is created which can navigate and allow one to read and view personal stories along the trail of the walk.

• https://storymaps.esri.com/stories/2018/sounds-of-the-wild-west/index.html Sounds of the Wild West is an audio tour of Montana’s four ecosystems. These soundscapes are as rich and diverse as the natural spaces in which one will find them.

Possible Project/Research Outcomes As a creative practitioner, my intent is to understand the methodology of this studio, acknowledge the material, engage directly in contexts and continue to learn as my mental faculties get rewired by the experiences in the field. Through data collection, conviction and insight I want to look at audio narratives as a medium that boosts the exchange of cultures.

My aim through this project is to look at memoryscapes through which the landscape can be interpreted and imagined using the memory of inhabitants and to be able to create an informed, critical and reflective intervention that tell the story of the landscape and create awareness. Initial ideas range from• Oral history recordings that can be used to curate an oral history walking trail along the landscape. These ‘sound walks’ that invite you to experience the hidden history of a place by listening to the memories of inhabitants, both historical and contemporary, as you walk through it • Self published podcasts could play a major part in Secure Himalayas project. These series of podcasts can be used to share information and create awareness about several themes and everyday practices of the region.

• Radio plays can be broadcast on All India Radio which can be scripted for a global outreach • An audio narrative along with an interactive map which allows the audience to understand the ongoing changes in the landscape and its culture

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“The core idea was to look to record the cultural / memory scape of Kinnaur through songs and audio narratives for radio. With correctly identifing the medium of radio as being the most appropriate for the region the approach had been proactive when it came to collecting material for the audio based narratives. Therefore it is important to look into translation of the content and audios gathered into Hindi, because of lack of familiarity with the local dialects. The challenge will be to keep it within the cultural framework of the region and at the same time make it interesting.�

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Research and Conceptulization Visualising the Content Interviews Case Studies Facts from the Field Media Landscape of Kinnaur Approach and Concepts Understanding a Media Plan What is New Media?

Understanding Sound Why Hindi and local languages/dialects?

Vocal Print Community Radio Guidelines Proposing the System Visualising the System

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VISUALIZING THE CONTENT The first step to understand and segregate the data collected on the field was to collate it under several themes. Since the medium of data collection was in the for of audio recordings, an audio log was made to keep track of the 140 audio recordings. Later I used the free hand drawn map of Kinnaur and listed down the themes collected from different locations.

Using Adobe Indesign I then created an interactive digital magazine layout to bring forth the themes and sound recordings.

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KINNAUR SPEAKS

THE SYNCRETIC KNIT.

played a seminal role in the transmission of Buddhist doctrine in the land of snow. Since oral traditions have helped The great Himalaya since ages has been in the creation of biographical accounts, the meeting place of many civilizations. folksongs suggest that Rin-chen bzangIt has given rise to many spiritual po went to Ribba and constructed a traditions with differing social belief that monastery. A hefty mark of his footprint has sprung up from a common origin of in Ribba is also an evidence of the start unknown past and created a syncretic of syncretic cultures at Ribba/Rarang. cultural legacy amongst the Himalayan communities. Kinnnaur can be seen as a place of harmonious blend of Hinduism and Buddhism. Rin-chen bzang-po (also known as lotsa rinpoche

IND O-TIBETAN Origin of Bhooti INTERFACE Language In 6th century Tibet, a king named Tsongten Gumpo sent a scholar named Sambhota to Central India inorder to learn Sanskrit.

With his learnings, he later on went to invent Bhooti grammar.

Kinnauri is a dialect that has borrowed words from Sanskrit, Tibetan and Kirata.

CLASSIFICATION Sino-Tibetan, Tibeto-Kanauri ORTHOGRAPHY No written script ETHNIC POPULATION 84,298 SPEAKER ATTITUDE Strong positive language attitudes among older and middle aged speakers. Younger speakers feel less strongly, but still hold positive attitudes towards the language.

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS Kinnauri is a trade language.

SCRIPTS (WRITING SYSTEM) Devanagari script

YANTRA! MANTRA! TANTRA! ‘LOHSAR’ Tibetan New Year

This festival is commemorated with chants in the air and prayer offerings are made to His Holiness called Dalai Lama.

WHO ARE THE LO CAL DEITIES? Chandika Devi KALPA & KOTHI

Kasuraj RIBBA

Snow leopards in Himachal Pradesh are usually found at an altitudes between 9,800 to 17,000 feet in high and rugged terrains. Extremely shy and with superior camoflaging skills, these elusive species are now a part of the Red List by the IUCN. Kinnaur holds a multitude of stories and myths abounding this grey ghost.

Chandika Devi Temple belongs to the reigning deity of Kalpa and you can see the skin of snow leopard here that is supposed to be the vehicle of the goddess.

THE SILENT ROAR

Maati Devi SANGLA

WONDER-WOMENFOLK OF RIBBA

SOUNDS OF THE LANDSCAPE

“The women of Ribba are extremely hardworking and welcoming.”- Radhika Negi They gathered on the eve of Lohsar festival (Buddhist New Year) to indulge in community cooking and mundane discussions. Radhika Negi and Priya Negi were two dynamic ladies, who showed utmost pride in their village Ribba and spoke about women, their status in the society and interventions for their upliftment.

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Interviews In order to begin my research about the Media Plan, system and communication design, I discussed the project with experts from various fields.

These interviews and discussions helped me enrich my research and gave a substantial ground to my concepts.

Mr Sandeep Pandey Creative Head, Radio Mirchi Patna

Aastha Chauhan Faculty,Srishti Institute of Design, Bangalore

Mr Rajiw Ranjan Shrivastava Programme Executive Prasar Bharati

“People consume different media differently. With the idea of interspersing the idea of conservation with communication, it is important for an RJ to make an emotional connect with the listeners and bring out consistent hard hitting punchlines which stay with the public.”

“It is imperative to understand the mandate of the project brief. After the field visit, one has to now find the position and look at content and how it is relevant for the local audience.”

“Radio is one of the effective, low cost, easily accessible, portable form of mass media. At the time of disaster, it the one of the main mode of communication. It is important to gather feedback from the listeners and at Prasar Bharati we do it via SMS. “

Mr Amitabh Pandey Communication Designer

Mr Ravi Mani Faculty,Srishti Institute of Design, Bangalore

Mr Samir K Sinha Conservationist Wildlife Trust of India

“The system has to be well communicated, preferably graphically. It is of high importance to identify the stakeholders.”

“Look at the economical, ecological and cultural aspects of the landscape. Understand how locals will consume the content produced under these themes.

What kind of content and themes are of deep interst of both local and global audience? The system created should go through a full circle.”

“How do the locals perceive Snow leopards and how those perceptions have shifted over time?” In a landscape there will be both positive and negative interactions between locals and animals. It depends on different stakeholders and when next on the field, the triangulation technique of more than one way of finding data is important”

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Case Studies Founded by Subhranshu Choudhary, CGNet Swara belongs to the Central Gondwana Region and caters to the community in local languages and dialects of Hindi, Gondi and Kudukh. CGnet Swara gives platform to people with mobile phone, which is now almost an ubiquitous communication tool, to tell their stories in their mother tongues. Villagers use their mobile phones to record these songs and reports. They call 08050068000 to record.

What is it’s role?

•Connecting the tribal and the non tribal community •power of user generated content to amplify their voice that can be disemminated on website/social media platforms, which will allow journalists/NGOs and other organisations to revert back for help •freely accessible via mobile phone, that allows anyone to report and listen to stories of local interest •Callers can record stories and listen to other recordings by navigating a simple interactive voice response system(IVR) The Quint’s strategy is mobilefirst and social-first and while some of its content is crossposted on the website and social media. The Goals are•Innovate the storytelling experience.

•Increase video consumption to drive engagement.

•Grow overall traffic and shares.

The Quint emphasises mobile discovery and sharing and aims to provide a blend of video, audio, and text for a quick, visual, and social experience.

CGNet Swara aims at•Share of Power/ Decision Making •Accountability •E-governance •Democratic Journalism •Local Ownership •Boosts Community voices •Problem Solving •Entertainment-Radio •Community informatics •Citizen Journalism

It is a Digital broadcast sytem which can be called as Future of Storytelling and communication.

The Quint also encourages its reporters to record audio versions of stories, which can be included in Instant Articles as SoundCloud embeds. This solution gives readers multiple entry points into stories and serves readers in situations where listening to a story is more ideal than reading it.

•Quirky/Innovative Punchlines/ Taglines •Invokes Citizen Journalism

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FACTS FROM THE FIELD To understand the media landscape of Himachal Pradesh and dynamic nature, I went through several statistics and reports to gather information and data. It was done to achieve a better understanding of the field, the mobile and internet usage and give a richer base to my concepts.

Here are the significant facts and figures from the field.

Media Landscape of kinnaur The field trip to Kinnaur, was highly beneficial to understand the media landscape of Kinnaur. With the locals having first hand access to internet through their mobile phones, it has now become an integral part of their routines.

From shring of businesss to consuming entertainment and information, the Kinnauris can be seen sipping tea alongside

listening to their favourite radio channel or Youtube video on their phone. They also maintian whatsapp groups to discuss local news and share it with field journalists which later goes on various media platforms. There is growing culture of apps like Youtube and Like where Magic Music Video Editor is a free video creation and editing app that lets users star in their own music videos and share them online.

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Approach and concepts Audio can be looked as a tool for Awareness, Celebration of cultural Identity and local and global education. Research also suggests that radio is the most effective method of spreading information in the Trans Himalayan region. Radio can also be considered as a powerful medium for the spoken word and an evocative format for the publication of oral history.

Some of the few concepts that I adhere my project to are defined as follows:

Memoryscape- Landscape intepreted and imagined using the memory of inhabitants- integrating their oral history and local

Concepts

Citizen Science- The collection and sharing of ecological data by the locals/general public.

This allows them to create a more inclusive network for conservation, where locals can provide fundamental contributions to science with their cultural/ local/ practical Ethanography- The methodology knowledge. which involves working within the community and recording/ Citizen Journalism- The studying their cultures or facet collection of stories/ of a culture based on more of a information/ data and also participant observation.

Oral History- A method of collecting/preserving/ interpreting of historical information/memories. It fills in the gaps and gives us history and understanding of how individuals and communities experienced forces of history.

it’s dissemination using blogs/social media is termed Cultural Anthropology-The branch of anthrology concerned as citizen journalism. It’s with the study of human societies participatory and it’s an opportunities to be active and cultures(beliefs, practices, cognitive and social organisation creators and critics. of human groups).

Medium of Dissemination

Channel of Dissemination

Effects

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Understanding a media plan Media planning is the process of identifying and selecting media outlets – mainly newspapers, magazines, websites, TV and radio stations, and outdoor placement – in which to place advertisements/ awareness/campaigns.

WHAT IS NEW MEDIA? New Media is anything that can be accessed through mobile over a broadband connection, which lead to new interactions.

•All forms of new media strive to add an element of participation in order to engage audience and give them a sense of membership.

There are several distribution platforms to allow content producers to disseminate messages to end-users. Some examples of new media include digital reality technology, social networking and media,consumer-generated contents, high-definition television, Internet, mobile phone, etc.

•The new media network has appeared with the transformation in communication technologies and used the infrastructure of the internet.

•New trends and structural changes around the internet, digital television, and mobile devices, which lead to the portrayal of a communication platform.

•Media premised on older/traditional methods that now serves similar purposes via implementation of newer technologies.

•Different forms of electronic and interactive communication like the internet, web sites, computer games, e-mail, social networks, blogs.

•Any media content that is designed to by consumed by end-users on the Internet and can be accessed on multiple digital platforms.

•New Media channels are highly blended and immersive.

Traditional channels are common way of interation with the users.

Digital platforms are extensions of analogue platforms, example website, social media. A touchpoint in a system is an interation that might alter the user approaches and feels about the service or brand. It should be appropriate, relevant, meaningful and endearing.

In this project one of touchpoints proposed is a community radio webportal which engages the listener and provided a more audiovisual radio experience.

What is a Social Media Aggregator Tool?

Social network aggregator tool collects content, feed and posts from multiple social network services, such as Instagram,Facebook YouTube, etc. into one unified presentation/ portal.

•Social media aggregator tools provide you with unique user generated content.

•Allows in the moderation and filtering of content.

•Helps in bringing in the real time content •Display of the aggregation social wall depend on the management committee.

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Understanding Sound Sounds are embedded with both cultural and personal meanings.

Voice in its multiple registers gives particular insight into the intimate, affective, and material/ embodied dimensions of cultural life and socio-political identity.

An individual’s particular speech patterns, vocabulary, language, volume, pace and habits. The aim of content creation is to not mutilate the originality of the voice and preservation of interviews/traditional knowledge in its’ original form. With the approach being anthropological, linguistic, and based on memory, it is poignant to record stories of interactions within the community and with the landscape. Therefore, creation of content is a highly crucial step and some proposed forms of content are- Radio diaries, Radio Plays, Audiowalks, Soundscapes, Soundportraits, Audio narratives.

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Radio is the power medium for the spoken word. Audio becomes the most intimate forms of media because one constantly building one’s own images of the story in the mind.

Aurality means relating to the ear or the sense of hearing in radio technology. It means acoustic landscape being broadcast and innately intimate way to absorb it. We understand orality to be a subset of aurality. Curating, creating, and/or shaping custom

For a field recorder it is important to captures voices or other sounds in the field, outside of a studio environment. The choices should be carefully made to optimize towards the cleanest possible source recording.

Sound design itself can include different tasks including editorial and creative side beyond the many technical facets of sound engineering and editing. For a sound designer, and a creative practitioner these technical skills act as a toolset to realize broader storytelling goals.

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Why chose hindi and other local languages and dialects?

The concept revolves around community radio which raises the prestige and heritage of a language and instills pride in the population, solidifying the fact that one’s language/ dialect is relevant, living, and useful. When we look at New Media, reports and several studies show that social media activities which are expected to get maximum returns are in Hindi or regional languages and dialects because around 45% of online users consume regional language/dialect content. Today low costing smart phones are available which along with low data plans have made internet available in almost all rural areas.

Thus it is now imperative to use Hindi or other regional languages in social media.

•It can reach to the interior most part of the country where English is not spoken.

•It will lead to development and growth of internet and the spread of knowledge as only 10% Indians speak English while the remaining literates are well versed in a local language.

Kinnaur’s professional language too is Hindi while they take alot of pride in their sweet sounding dialect of Kinnauri. Inorder to create content for the locals which will serve the global audience as well, my project would aim at creating content in Hindi.

Vocal Print & Cultural/ Traditional Knowledge System What is a Vocal Print?

An individual’s particular speech patterns, vocabulary, language, volume, pace and habits. Not mutilating the originality of the voice and preservation of interviews/traditional knowledge in its’ original form.

Cultural mapping involves a community identifying and documenting local cultural resources/traditional knowledge systems. Giving voice to tangible and the intangible. It is therefore, is used in both a literal and metaphorical sense, where it

goes beyond cartography to include not only topographic, but also other cultural resources and information recorded various techniques Recording stories of interactions within the community and with the landscape with the approach being: Anthropological Ethnographic Linguistic Topographic Memory

Voice is both a set of sonic, material, and literary practices shaped by culturally and historically specific moments and a discourse about personal agency, communication and representation, and political power.

COMMUNITY RADIO RESEARCH A community radio is usually short range, locally based, nonprofit radio station catering to the information needs of the community, in the language and formats most adapted to the local context. As community radio derives its strength from its close connect with communities it has proved itself as an effective and empowering tool for addressing the issues of community.

What are the Programming policies?

Programmes should be about community news, issues relevant to them, awareness raising shows, regional music which have a direct impact on the listeners. It is an essential platform for internal discussion and discource which henceforth becomes a tool for social change and development. One of the common policy is OPEN DOOR POLICY The community radio must be an open and accessible.

Following the Open-Door Policy, the locals must have access to the station, not just to listen, but also to speak, to be content producers, even with little or no training.

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Advantages of a Radio: •Reaches wider audience than any other medium •Cheap to make compared to other media •Motivates people by building on oral tradition •Radio receivers are widely available, comparatively cheap and portable •Reaches people isolated by geography, conflict, illiteracy, poverty •Helps create demand for services, conveys vital information •Gives listeners the opportunity to make informed choices about decisions, gives them greater self-determination •Listening as group activity, encouraging discussions

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Community Radio can usher in change at the deepest and local levels. It is one of the most effective tool for creating knowledge and communication owned by the communities themselves. That’s where our thinking around community radios and the importance of enabling communities to own and run their own radio stations came from. Capacity building training workshops for the communities and the local people in partnership with local organizations to record voices, to understand what it is that they want to say, to enter into engagement programs within their communities, etc is highly important in order to make setting-up of radio stations low cost and locally managed.

What innovations can be brought in Community Radio systems ?

• Collaborative Programming with two or mre community radio stations or with other community organisations.

• With the rapid digitisation, use of mobile technology in community broadcasting.

• To make the Community radio more user friendly and have a wide reach irrespective of geographic boundaries, one can have web portals and mobile applications.

• Webportals and mobile applications for feedback and grievance redressal mechanisms.

• Tecnologies need to be setup to measure listenership and also make digital submissions to add content for the radio.

Representation of Community Radio Station in Kinnaur

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What are the Government laid guidelines to setup up a Community Radio Station?

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PROPOSING THE SYSTEM The proposed community digital How does the System Work? radio system brings forth the •The volunteers,individuals, groups gather information, local purposeful interventions to enhance the seminal experience tales, folk songs, grievances, of the community radio structure. ecological findings, oral history It showcases a multiplatform from their specific locale. approach where public and •At the Community radio station, a group of local and democratic discourse is shifting from analogue to digital professional participants work as Publishers/ Moderators to platforms. Integration of interactive ways of staying in generate tailored content for touch with the local community the radio. The content makers radio stations. Thus, the local can range from different ethnographic groups. The community radio station transforms into platform for creation of content will follow locals to build relationships both a certain regulations/ code of ethics which abide by the locally and globally. government laid guidelines and does not hurt the sentiments of any individual or communities.

Proposed set of content makers

•From the four proposed Community Radio Stations the content will be disseminated to an online web portal which acts as a dynamic database for the archival of content and also allows the locals to locate themselves on larger media platforms.

•Indigenous people have had a long tradition of storytelling, and with this method it continues on the Internet. With upcoming tools like the “Social Media Aggregator tool,” it allows driving traffic to the web portal and can boost awareness and sensitization about the landscape and cultural diversity of the Trans-Himalaya Region.

•Citizen journalism offers a vital avenue for telling on-theground and under-told stories.

Both the local and global voices can find a space to share their stories, comments, feedback on the web portal through methods like- report writing, Geocoding via images, and with an IVR (Interactive Voice

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VISUALIZING THE SYSTEM The intial system map was broken down to simpler terms and for a clearer representation and the keywords were extracted. Later to graphically represent the system icons and symbols were added. The initial system complete a full loop, showcasing it be a continuous and dynamic system. Therefore the visual of an infinity sign comes in, showing a continous flow of information and feedback.

Community Radio Station

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Explorations and Iterations Building the Community Radio Conceptualising the Logo The Final Logo Him Jo Goonje - The Proposal Creating Content Illustrations Inspiration Board Workshop Ideas for Upcoming Field Visit The Web Flow Website Mockup Seminar 2 Feedback

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BUILDING THE COMMUNITY RADio “Him jo Goonje,” proposes the initiation of community radio stations at the four project sites that are Pangi, Lahaul, Spiti and Kinnaur. The mandate of the project is to invoke the new age practices of ‘Citizen Journalism’ and ‘Citizen Science’ amongst the local communities and also encourage them to actively participate in cultural conservation, archival and documentation of traditional knowledge. It aims at promoting the niche idea of conservation through participatory policies and actions. The main purpose of community radio is to provide communities with access to a voice through the broadcasting channel of radio so they can express their concerns, interests and needs, promote and protect their cultures, traditions and heritages and determine their own development.

There were some iterations for the names for the commnity radio proposal.

CONCEPTUALIZING THE LOGO Him Jo Goonje Stands for the echoes of the Himalayas. The logo was to be designed in keeping in mind the concept of bridging of tradional community radio and their voices with the digital world. The iterations were done on paper first and then digitized. It was important to keep the visuals of the hills and the wifi symbol and play with their arrangements.

Him Jo Goonje’s logo is a holistic representation of the voices of the Trans Himalayan communities. The hills symbolise their dynamic landscape. The small hill personifies the power of discourse that rises like the sun, enlightening and empowering the communities. An image of a person with rising arms along with the coming of digital age can also be read in this logo.

It’s an amalgamation of the community radio and the New Media, which intends to make the community voices heard globally. The harmony of colours used, portray the harmonious relationship the communities have with the Himalayan Landscape.

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THE FINAL LOGO

Fonts:

Devanagari Sangam MN and Josefin Sans

Colours:

#485675

#567dbf

#9ccaed

#275731

HIM JO GOONJE- THE proposal One of the key goals of the Secure Himalayas project is to safeguard India’s unique natural heritage of high altitude wildlife populations and their habitats by promoting conservation through participatory policies and actions. After an extensive research and conceptualization, the, I tried deriving the system and creating a new project proposal.

The Key roles of Him Jo Goonje, project are: •Knowledge, Advocacy, Communication and Information Systems established.

•Awareness and sensitization •Reinforcing Cultural identity, traditional Knowledge •Enlarge the plurality of opinion of decision making, opinion in local space •Invoking citizen journalism and citizen science by bringing in inclusion and participatory approach •Education and Training

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Creating content : snow leopard Advertisement In order to create content for the radio segments, a lot of research was involved. The segments were also made richer by adding interviews and recordings form the fields. First a flow of the narrative was made, then the narration was written in English and later translated to Hindi. The style of writing was report and journalist like and the sentences were kept simple and easy to comprehend by the listeners.

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Creating content : Women folk of kinnaur How do we inspire/empower local women as agents of change to build new pathways to conservation?

• Historical stories/Evidences- The Chipko MovementWomen Participation- Inspire-ECOFEMINISM • Set up local radio in villages- Community Forums- urge dis course and conversation • Community Initiatives(like Cleaning Days in Ribba) • Campaigns that tweak popular myths and folklore which integrates woman and nature/biodiveristy (Sita/Shakuntala) • Recording grievances/local stories/traditional knowl edge-global reach allowing intervention • Training and tutorials over internet-podcasts/radioshows (latest technology on horticulture/farming/arts/crafts ) • Local businesses/arts/small cottage industries/tourism- audio advertisements for the world to know- Direct selling through radio/social media

Character Sketch of a Kinnauri Woman

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ILLUSTRATIONS

Adobe Illustrator Vector Drawing

Adobe Photoshop Drawing

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The journalistic approach Jornalism is a community centric yet a global perspective. A journalistic approach begins with research, interviews and fascinating stories. A comprehensive approach to content, writing, curating, editing and publishing. With the creation of web sites and the onset of digital publications, it has been possible to create content for the community radio and listen to it outside a geographical area. The web radio portals have contributed the emergence of new forms of civic expression and participation, and how do they contribute to a reactivation of a public sphere which extends significantly beyond local and national boundaries. My methodologies involved alot interviewing, research, collaboration, content writing and curating. To keep the web portal holistic and true to the community it was meant to cater to, the language of writing was Hindi. There has been a use of illustrations and photographs which tell their own story and add more flavour to the content. Out of several themes gathered from the field visit, the challenge was to find the most relevant, interesting and engaging ones for the radio segments.

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INSPIRATION BOARD In order to create a web portal and understal various levels of interativity, I delved into creating a collection of hindi websites that could inspre my own website. It was necessary to study the font, the colour, types of content and taglines, and layout before I could start creating my own.

https://hindi.thequint.com/elections

https://www.gyandarpan.com

https://vivosrecuerdos.cl/en/

http://radio.nymoon.com

https://www.allinhindi.com

https://khabarlahariya.org

workshop ideas for upcoming field visit The Pangi workshop planning was done to increase the pertinence of locally generated content and programming and to identify the stakeholders. It was planned in collaboration with the CEVA organisation and was aimed at including all the demographics including children, young population, women, old age groups and skill holders in media, computers etc.

Some of the other collaborators identified were, Aganwadi Kendrs, GSSS Killar Secondary School. Collatrals like stickers, posters would be given to them to ask them to name their own community radio station and fetch ideas. Get them to narrate anecdotes written during the workshop, and send them an edited finished piece to give them a glimpse of how content for the radio could be created.

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WEB FLOW To understand the flow of events on the web portal, I created a user flowchart to understand how the system and the web would work together.

WEBSITE MOCKUP With some audios and illustrations in place, I wanted to explain my idea of bringing the community radio and the web portal together in a better way. Aiming at creating a web portal, this mockup had several problems.

I experienced problems like the Hindi font and spellings not working out. The web ratio of 16:9 didnt look appealing. The web portal mockup had started looking like a government website and feedback from my peers was to improve it and make it look more aesthetic and authentic. The colour palette had to be more clean. Rather than aiming to make an entire web portal, I had to focus on Kinnaur, where the content was being generated from.

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SEMINAR 2

“The research done to propose a community radio and the iterations for the web portal were highly appreciated by the panelists. The concepts derived from understanding the need for community radio in the Trans Himalyan regions and merging it with the New Media came across really well. However, it was imperative to look into the tecnical aspects of sound design and radio rather than reinventing the wheel. With the number of ideas, concepts and mockups, there was a tension between creating content for the locals as opposed to catering to the global audiences that was important to be resolved.

There was a hanging dilemma between going to Pangi or Kinnaur for the second field visit and the panelists suggested that I visit Kinnaur to build better relations with the community and gather more locally produced content.�

FEEDBACK

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THE FINAL PRODUCTION Mapping the Content Meet the CEVA Foundation, Pangi The Interview Radio Segments Digital Illustrations for the Web Portal Kinnauri Elements for the Web Portal Hindi Type Explorations Hindi-English Font Pairings Songs collected for Web Portal Scripts for Audio Recordings Web Portal Layout Translations from Kinnaur Making and Flow of Stop Motion The Concept Book- Him Jo Goonje Understanding the Digital Space(UX/UI)

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The Dilemma After the second seminar, I had too many ideas and concepts to deal with. With the feedback given, I was sure that a return trip to Kinnaur would provide me with good amount of content but in the same time, I was worried about the production time. I had to narrow down my concept, enrich it more, and create a web portal in support of the proposed community radio station. With two weeks of absolute anxiety, ambiguity, phone calls, I mapped out a pro and con list to give clarity to my overwhelming thoughts and decided to stay in the studio to work extensively on a concept book and with the content I had already collected from the first field visit.

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Mapping the content The final production phase started with revisiting the content and audio files collected. Based on the four areas of study, Kalpa, Sangla, Ribba and Reckong Peo, I mapped out the themes collected and the people met from the respective places. With this method of spreading the map on a large sheet, it was easy to comprehend and make connections. Bringing out the narratives, it gave me more clarity to derive my radio segments.

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Meet the ceva foundation, Pangi CEVA is an NGO, founded by the social worker Mr. Haresh Kumar Sharma in the mystic Pangi Valley. Ceva aims at the overall development of tribal areas and its people in all spheres without corrupting the traditional ethos and the fragile ecosystem of the valley. Their work ranges from improved access to basic health, education, employment, agriculture, food security and environment etc and they work together with communities of the Himalayan region by responding to their needs. I stumbled upon their website during my research and immediately tried to contact them.

Mr Haresh Pangi has been a great source of help, encouragement and has shown deep interest in this project.

Conversations and discussions with him have helped me understand the field better. On being asked that what were his comments on the idea of bringing in a community radio station to the trans Himalayan regions, he replied by saying“I would say one could well understand the challenges of these trans Himalayan communities. It is a very good platform for getting their voices heard. It will help in empowering and mobilizing the communities which is the key to positive social change.�

THE INTERVIEW

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What is the population of Himachal Pradesh?

Approx. 68.65 lakhs What is the literacy rate in Himachal Pradesh and the four districts?

HP literacy rate 83.78%. In Lahaul Spiti- 77.24%, kinnaur- 80.77%, Chamba- 73.19% How is information consumed by the locals? Over internet? Radio or newspapers?

No facility of internet or newspaper . Generally they consume it through All India Radio.

What do the community like listening to Over the radio? Songs? News?

Generally regional music , news, informative shows, interviews, phone in programs, trending issues etc.

Community radio means a radio engaging the community and giving them the voice. What kind of content would the locals would want to create?

Community news, community issues relevant to them, discussions and debates, awareness raising shows, regional music.

With an average coverage area of 15kms how many villages can be catered through this community radio ?

Around 45 villages How will the community radio benefit the locals in the trans Himalayan region?

It will reach to the communities where communities cannot reach. As we all areaware of the fact that trans Himalayan communities have very few or limited resources due to tough topography. It will deliver wide benefits and give a voice to the communities. It will help in fostering communication and collaboration within the community. It will keep communities informed regional and national happenings. Its an excellent way to communicate with the communities whose main language is not the official national language.

How can community radio lead to making the local voices reach the global audience?

Community people can be trained as professionals who can address their culture, issues ,needs and concerns through diversity in programs and present the content in more refined way to reach the global audience.

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Radio Segments KINNAURI ZUBANI

Kinnaur ke Kisse is by the community and for the community. We Kinnauris indulge in a citizen weekly programme to promote and strengthen the local voices. Here we encourage our community radio, Kinnaur Ke Kisse to be an open and accessible. Following the Open-Door Policy, we believe our community must have access to the station, not just to listen, but also to speak, to be content producers, even with little or no training. Thus the station serves an invaluable purpose in airing cultural histories, memories, stories, achievements, businesses, issues and spark discussion. Therefore, reflecting the warmth of our culture, Kinnaur Ke Kisse brings to you Kinnauri Zubani.

‘िकन्नौर के िकस्से’ समुदाय के द्वारा, और समुदाय

के िलए ही हंै । हम िकन्नौरी, समुदाय के िलए एक

साप्तािहक कायर्क्रम चलाते है जो हमारे समुदाय की

आवाज़ को बढ़ावा देती है और सक्षत करती है। ‘िकन्नौर के िकस्स’े हमारे समुदाय को मज़बूत और पारदशर्क

बनाने का एक रेिडयो प्रोग्राम है। खुले विचार के आदानप्रदान के िलए ये ज़�री हैं िक ना हम िसफर् सुने, बिल्क

यह� बोलने का भी अवसर होना चािहए। प्रिक्षषण हो या ना हो, अवसर सब को सामान प्राप्त होना चािहए। इस

प्रकार स्टेशन एक बहुत ही महत्वपूणर् मंच बन जाता हैं,

हमारे सांस्कृितक इितहास, धरोहर, कहािनय�, उप्लिब्ध, मुद्दे और विचार- विमशर् करने के िलए। इसिलए,

‘किन्​्नौर के िकस्स’े हमारे समुदाय के अपनापन और संस्कृित मंे िलप्त, िकन्नौरी ज़़ुबानी आप तक पहुचाता है।

AISE AISE KINNAUR MEIN Our Kinnaur presents a variety of enchanting spectacles of the wildest, sublimest scenery of the Himalayas. There are green hills, beautiful small valleys and vast alpine meadows, native to lush green nutritious grasses and a plentitude of colourful flowers. Kinnaur is a place which thrives in its pristine excellence embedded in both Hindu and Buddhist culture. Kinnaur, home to a warm and hospitable people, and nature’s most spectacular work on earth, has for centuries lured sages, adventurers and travellers, all of whom inspired by the bewildering diversity of its people have glorified both the land and its people. In this segment of Aise Aise Kinnaur mein, we bring to you all the glories of Kinnaur.

हमारा िकन्नौर , सृि� के अद्भुत �प और रंग मंे िहमालय

Listen to Usha Negi as she takes you through Kinnaur, highlighting our supreme heritage and practices.

िलखने के िलए।

की हरी-भरी सौम्य गोद और वादी को दशार्ता हंै। यँहा

ऊचंे हरयाली से भरे पहाड़, छोटी- छोटी घािटँया, लम्बे बाँह फैलाए घास के मैदान, रंगो की चादर फैलाए वो

फूल-पित्तय�- सब कुछ तो हंे। िकन्नौर की सुंदरता यँहा के सिम्मिलत और एक दूसरंे मंे गुथ,े िहन्दु और बौध

धमर् की कहानी बताती है�। एक प्राचीन कथा है�, जो हर

कणर् मे� मौजूद है। यँहा के लोग, सीधे- सादे, खुले-मन के

मालिक है िजन्होनंे सिदयों से ॠिष-मुिनयों को आकर्िषत िकया है। सृि� के एक अद्भुत चमत्कार की िनशानी है िकन्नौर िजसनंे हर आने वाले को सम्मोिहत और प्रेिरत िकया है यँहा के सरल लोग और संस्कृित के बारे मे

आज के “ऐसे-ऐसे िकन्नौर में” के खण्ड मंे आपके सामने िकन्नौर की कीर्ती को प्रस्तुत करंेगे।

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AAJ KI CHARCHA

As Kinnaur ke Kisse derives its strength from its close connect with communities it has proved itself as an effective and empowering tool for addressing the issues of community. Our radio thrives in the spirit of the spectrum over which the message is transmitted as a common for public good. It provides a platform for us Kinnauris, to tell our own stories, share our experiences and thus become active contributors and participants of the media. In this way, people become creators of their own community specific media.Information on traffic and weather conditions, information on academic events, public announcements pertaining to utilities like electricity and water supply, disaster warnings and health alerts are also made available by means of community radio.

‘िकन्नौर के िकस्से’ की नीव अपने समुदाय के जड़ो से

जुड़ी होने के कारण बहुत मज़बूत है। इसकी पहचान और संबंध ही िकन्नौर के समाज के मुद्दों को उजागर करने मंे सफल हुए है। हमारा रेिडयो समाज के हर पहलू को

दशार्ता हंै, िजसकी नीव समुदाय के भले के िलए ही रखी गयी है। ये िकन्नौिरयों की कहानी बताता है, उन्हीं की

बुानी। ये वो कड़ी है जो हमंे, खुद से जोड़ता हंै। एक साझा मंच देता है अपनी बात, राय और अनुभवों को एक-

दूसरों के साथ बाटने के िलए। ये हमारे सामान्य जीवन, मौसम, यातायात, शैिक्षक, जन- साधारण से सम्ब�िधत घोषणाओं जैसे िबजली, पानी इत्यािद,

आपदा की चैतावनी और स्वास्थय सम्ंबिधत जानकारी भी प्रदान करता है।

KINNAURI LOKGEET There is something beautiful and deep about communities, landscape and their songs.

Songs are one of the many ways through which communities establish themselves and grow. In our segment of ‘Kinnauri Lokgeet,’ we Kinnauris cultivate and maintain our continuous tradition, without any external influence. In our social panorama they form an integral part of all joyous and not so happy occasions; with a view mostly to enliven fairs, festivals and other secular celebrations. Our song draw the line sketches of the superstitions, social customs, scenic charms, Social customs fair and festivals, folk theatre and the life and work of the illustrious sons of the soil.

Widespread themes of love, romance and pangs of separation too have inspired our song.

स्थानीय समुदाय के रीती- रीवाज़, गीतों और वािदयों

में एक अद˛श्य आकषर्ण और खिचाव होता है । गीत

वो माध्यम है िजसे ना भाषा से मतलब है और ना बोली से। ये वो ज़िरया है िजससे समुदाय ना िसफर् जन्म लेता है, पर बढ़ता भी है और एक आकार और पहचान भी

मिलती है। ‘किन्नौरी लोकगीत’ मंे हम हमारे गीतों को

िवकिसत करते है, उसे बाहरी हस्तक्षेप से परे भी रखते

है। ये हमारे सामाजिक जीवन के हर पहलू , सुख- दु:ख, के अवसर का अिभन्न अंग हंै, जो ज़्यादातर मेलो, पवर्, त्योहारों के रंग को और बढ़ाती है।इनमे हमारे

सामाजिक नीयमों, आकषर्क रीितयों, त्योहारों और

अन्य जीवनशैली की प्रितिबम्ब छाया मिलती ह˙ै। हमारी िमट्टी की पहचान, यह� के लोगों की कहािनयों में

सुनाई देती है। प्रेम-प्रेिमयों का िमलना, िबछड़ना और ना जाने िकतने भावनओं की झलक िमलती है।

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illustrations for the web portal

Sonu Negi

Rohit Negi

Tanzin Nargu Negi

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Ratan Manjari

Radhika Negi

Gurkiran Negi

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kinnauri elements for the web portal

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For the web portal, I felt that it was important to be true to the feel and essence of Kinnaur. I had aimed at making the website a cornucopia of illustrations, images, and elments that would make it more collage like. Before starting the layout, I assembled the essential elements those resonate with the different themes of the content ranging from Kinnauri cuisine, the craft, locally produced CDs, newspapers etc.

Kinnauri Shawl

Teacup stain

Chilta Dried apple

Newspaper from Rampur Snow Leopard paw print

Buckwheat flower Fonts from the field FIRE grey WATER white EARTH black ETHER brown SKY

Local Kinnauri Music CDs

Colour Palette from Kinnauri Shawl

Walnuts

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hindi TYPE explorations The challenge was to find an appropriate Hindi typeface which would serve the purpose of accurate readibility, should be clean, and work with the aesthetics of the website.

An “.otf�(Open Type Features) format of font was searched for which the users can open from any part of the worls. I also tried digital hand lettering which resonated with the fonts and typefaces seen in the field.

Devanagari Sangam MN

Kadwa

Calligraphic Art Brushes on Adobe Ilustrator

HIndi-English Font Pairings

रेिडयो

Kadawa Bold Heading(54pt)

रेिडयो

Palanquin Header(20pt)

रेिडयो

Palanquin Sub Header(14pt)

रेिडयो में शिक्त

Palanquin Bodycopy(16pt)

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Songs collected for the web portal

Poster to promote local artist

CD Illustration

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सोम बेला डोलमा �हू सर

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तेते रंग आिप

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खागो चु चित्तकुल

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चुन्गी बान्थी

CD cover illustration inspired from local Kinnauri covers

SCRIPTS FOR AUDIO RECORDINGS

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AUDIO RECORDINGS Audio and sound play important roles in my project. The scripts and content creates was therefore needed to be narrated for the radio segments. Since the project was about the community radio station, I had the challenge to find voices similar to the Kinnauri folks. Sweet sounding, with their specific diction and tone, I had to find voices those who had clear hindi prounciation.

Fortunately I found the voices which highly resonated with the ones I had heard in Kinnaur.

For the segment, “Aise-Aise Kinnaur Mein,” I approached my aunt, who delivered the narration with utmost care. Her voice was mellow and sweet sounding which added the Kinnauri touch.

For the segment, “Kinnauri Zubani,” Niladri Mukherjee was approached, who brought in an All India Radio zeal and touch to the script and the narration.

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WEB PORTAL LAYOUT

Colour palette for the website

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Artboards of size A4 each was created on photoshop and based on the number of elments the length of each panel was determined. The layout was first done on photoshop. Dealing with web designs in photoshop the layers, smart objects, makes it easy to add adjstment layers and edits within a seprate file/ layer rather than tweaking the source image. It also allowed me understand the importance of white space which makes the user easy to navigate through the website. All the panels followed different layout as each of them had a narrative of it’s own.

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The second round of layout was carried on Adobe Indesign. A document of size 1920x1080 was created keeping in mind a regular web screen size and then it was further divided into a 6 grid system, in which an A4 panel was made to fit centrally.

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RADIO SEGMENT PANELS लाइव

हमारे बारे में

हमें सब्सक्राइब करें

अपनी कहानी प्रस्तुत करें

िकन्नौरी ज़ुबानी

सेक्यौर िहमालय संगठन से जुड़े

ऐसे-ऐसे िकन्नौर में

िकन्नौरी लोकगीत

लाइव

िहन्दी | अं​ंग्रेज़ी

हमें सब्सक्राइब करें

हमारे बारे में

आज की चचार्

सेक्यौर िहमालय संगठन से जुड़े

अपनी कहानी प्रस्तुत करें

िकन्नौरी ज़ुबानी

ऐसे-ऐसे िकन्नौर में

िकन्नौरी लोकगीत

िहन्दी | अं​ंग्रेज़ी

आज की चचार्

ऐसे-ऐसे िकन्नौर मे˙

िकन्नौरी ज़ुबानी

हमारा िकन्नौर , सृि� के अद्भुत �प और रंग मंे िहमालय की हरी-भरी सौम्य गोद और वादी को दशार्ता हंै। यँहा ऊचंे

हरयाली से भरे पहाड़, छोटी- छोटी घािटँया, लम्बे बाँह फैलाए घास के मैदान, रंगो की चादर फैलाए वो फूल-पित्तय�-

‘िकन्नौर के िकस्से’ समुदाय के द्वारा, और समुदाय के िलए ही हंै । हम िकन्नौरी, समुदाय के िलए एक साप्तािहक

सब कुछ तो हंे। िकन्नौर की सुंदरता यँहा के सिम्मिलत और एक दूसरंे मंे गुथ,े िहन्दु और बौध धमर् की कहानी बताती

कायर्क्रम चलाते है जो हमारे समुदाय की आवाज़ को बढ़ावा देती है और सक्षत करती है। ‘िकन्नौर के िकस्स’े हमारे

है�। एक प्राचीन कथा है�, जो हर कणर् मे� मौजूद है। यँहा के लोग, सीधे- सादे, खुले-मन के मालिक है िजन्होनंे सिदयों से

समुदाय को मज़बूत और पारदशर्क बनाने का एक रेिडयो प्रोग्राम है। खुले विचार के आदान-प्रदान के िलए ये ज़�री

ॠिष-मुिनयों को आकर्िषत िकया है। सृि� के एक अद्भुत चमत्कार की िनशानी है िकन्नौर िजसनंे हर आने वाले को

हैं िक ना हम िसफर् सुने, बिल्क यह� बोलने का भी अवसर होना चािहए। प्रिक्षषण हो या ना हो, अवसर सब को सामान

सम्मोिहत और प्रेिरत िकया है यँहा के सरल लोग और संस्कृित के बारे मे िलखने के िलए।

प्राप्त होना चािहए। इस प्रकार स्टेशन एक बहुत ही महत्वपूणर् मंच बन जाता हैं, हमारे सांस्कृितक इितहास, धरोहर,

कहािनय�, उप्लिब्ध, मुद्दे और विचार- विमशर् करने के िलए। इसिलए, ‘किन्​्नौर के िकस्स’े हमारे समुदाय के अपनापन

आज के “ऐसे-ऐसे िकन्नौर में” के खण्ड मंे आपके सामने िकन्नौर की कीर्ती को प्रस्तुत करंेगे।

और संस्कृित मंे िलप्त, िकन्नौरी ज़़ुबानी आप तक पहुचाता है।

“थार का खाल िनकालते थे, और घास भर के सारे ग�ाव में नचाते थे, और मेला लगाते थे” अब ऊषा नेगी को सुिनए जो आपको िकन्नौर के गौरव और प्रथाओं से आपका पिरचय कराएंगी।

“स्नो लेपडर् की प्रजाती काफ़ी रेर जैसा है। िहमाचल में िपछले साल 36 पाया गया। ”

सुंदर देवी के अनुसार “ चाह के िलए, एक बड़े से फ़ानदेल मंे पानी भर कर उस्मंे जंगली चाय पत्ती, नमक, दूध, मक्खन, अखरोट, बादाम, और मसाल�े डालकर उबाल लंे । ये चाह, ितब्बती नमकीन चाय की तरह आपकी प्यास बुझाता हंै, और स्वास्थय के िलए भी पोषक हंै।

“पूरे िहमाचल में, हाईडल प्लाट्स के वजह से िमट्टी वाला बािरश होता है। उससे सारा सेब तबाह हो जाता हैं।” हम फापरा से िचलटा बनाते है, जो की कोिलस्ट्ररोल को संतुिलत रखता है। ब्लड प्रशर बढ़ता नहीं, और चीनी भी िनय�ित्रत रहता है। ये हमारे उपवास का भी भोजन है।”

“मैं मदर्स से यह कहना चांहूगी िक वे अपने बच्चों को िकन्नौरी ज़�र िसखाए, क्योिक, िकन्नौरी ना सीखा तो वे अपना घर और �ट्स भूल जा�एगे।”

“एलोपैथी का जो बुरा असर पड़ जाता है, उसके बारे में लोगो को जानकारी नहीं होता हैं। एलोपैथी और हमारे ितब्बित अायुवेर्द में िदन- रात का फकर् है। इसमें फ़ायदा ही फ़ायदा हैं।”

हमसे संपकर् करें

हमसे संपकर् करें

खोज

िकन्नौर के िकस्से

वोलयुम

मेन पेज पर जाए

खोज

िकन्नौर के िकस्से

वोलयुम

मेन पेज पर जाए

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लाइव

हमें सब्सक्राइब करें

हमारे बारे में

अपनी कहानी प्रस्तुत करें

िकन्नौरी ज़ुबानी

सेक्यौर िहमालय संगठन से जुड़े

ऐसे-ऐसे िकन्नौर में

िकन्नौरी लोकगीत

लाइव

िहन्दी | अं​ंग्रेज़ी

आज की चचार्

हमें सब्सक्राइब करें

हमारे बारे मे˙

िकन्नौरी लोकगीत

अपनी कहानी प्रस्तुत करें

िकन्नौरी ज़ुबानी

ऐसे-ऐसे िकन्नौर मे˙

सेक्यौर िहमालय संगठन से जुड़े

िकन्नौरी लोकगीत

िहन्दी | अं​ंग्रेज़ी

आज की चचार्

आज की चचार्

स्थानीय समुदाय के रीती- रीवाज़, गीतों और वािदयों में एक अद˛श्य आकषर्ण और खिचाव होता है । गीत वो माध्यम

‘िकन्नौर के िकस्से’ की नीव अपने समुदाय के जड़ो से जुड़ी होने के कारण बहुत मज़बूत है। इसकी पहचान और संबंध ही

है िजसे ना भाषा से मतलब है और ना बोली से। ये वो ज़िरया है िजससे समुदाय ना िसफर् जन्म लेता है, पर बढ़ता भी है

और एक आकार और पहचान भी मिलती है। ‘किन्नौरी लोकगीत’ मंे हम हमारे गीतों को िवकिसत करते है, उसे बाहरी

िकन्नौर के समाज के मुद्दों को उजागर करने मंे सफल हुए है। हमारा रेिडयो समाज के हर पहलू को दशार्ता हंै, िजसकी

ज़्यादातर मेलो, पवर्, त्योहारों के रंग को और बढ़ाती है।इनमे हमारे सामाजिक नीयमों, आकषर्क रीितयों, त्योहारों और

खुद से जोड़ता हंै। एक साझा मंच देता है अपनी बात, राय और अनुभवों को एक- दूसरों के साथ बाटने के िलए। ये हमारे

है। प्रेम-प्रेिमयों का िमलना, िबछड़ना और ना जाने िकतने भावनओं की झलक मिलती है।

की चैतावनी और स्वास्थय सम्ंबिधत जानकारी भी प्रदान करता है।

नीव समुदाय के भले के िलए ही रखी गयी है। ये िकन्नौिरयों की कहानी बताता है, उन्हीं की बुानी। ये वो कड़ी है जो हमंे,

हस्तक्षेप से परे भी रखते है। ये हमारे सामाजिक जीवन के हर पहलू , सुख- दु:ख, के अवसर का अिभन्न अंग हंै, जो

अन्य जीवनशैली की प्रितिबम्ब छाया मिलती ह˙ै। हमारी िमट्टी की पहचान, यह� के लोगों की कहािनयों में सुनाई देती

सामान्य जीवन, मौसम, यातायात, शैिक्षक, जन- साधारण से सम्ब�िधत घोषणाओं जैसे िबजली, पानी इत्यािद, आपदा

पैतृक संपित्त के अधिकार पर चचार्

ये मिहला सशिक्तकरण, उनकी सुदृढ़ िनणयर् लेने की क्षमता का भी मंच है। इसकी िविशष्टता है कायर्क्रम

जैसे “आज की चचर्ा।” ये सामान्य मिहलाओं के स्थानीय

“ बहुत प्यार और भावनाओं से

मुद्दे को उजागर करने का एक उत्कष्ट माध्यम बन

ओत-प्रोत, स्थानीय गायक अथवा

गया है। हमारा उद्देश्य है, िकन्नौिरयों को सिक्रय �प से

संगीतकारों के िदल से िनकले ऐसे गीत

सामािजक जन-जीवन से जोड़ना। एक परीवार की तरह

जो िकन्​्नौर के रग-रग मंे बसा है, जन्​्म

अपनापन और सक्षत बनाना ही हमारा ल�य है।

से सुना गया है, आपके िलए लाए है, ‘िकन्नौर के किस्से’ के स्​्टुडियो से। ”

सोम बेला डोलमा �हू सर

नई शादी की कहानी!

“नई नई शादी हुई शाम को

सोये थे तो जब रात खुल गई

तो बहार सुबह कौवे की बच्चे

आवाज़ दे रहे थे तभी भी

सोये हुए हैं उठ नहीं पा रहा है!”

तेते रंग आिप

दादा-दादी की पालन-पोशण की कहानी! “नीचे से ऊपर

जायेंगे तो रिदांग गाँव उसके नीचे

संरक्षण अभियान में शामिल हो ।

सिकिब्बा गाँव में दादी ने अंगुरी का

बगीचा लगाया दादा ने पालन-पोशण िकया!”

खागो चु चित्तकुल

“देवी लोक की कहानी!

बहुत पीछे िचत्तकुल गाँव है

क्या आपने एक िहम तंेदुआ देखा है?

वह� देवी लोक है!”

जािनए और! आपने जो देखा,

उसे शेयर िकिजए।

अब आपके िलए, गुरिकरण नेगी, ग�व कोठी से अपनी मधुर आवाज़ मंे एक अित सुंदर, द्दर् से

भरा गीत, जो एक ग�व तेलांगी की लड़की की कहानी सुनाता हंै।

‘ये लड़की अपने घर से मेले देखने भागी पर अनदेखे पिरिस्तितयों मंे फ़स जाती है।’ गाना सुनने के िलए नीचे प्रेस करंे।

हमसे संपकर् करें

हमसे संपकर् करें

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िकन्नौर के िकस्से

वोलयुम

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Translations from kinnaur Mr Bir Singh of Pangi, who was our humble host in Kinnaur plays a huge part in this project and without his constant help this project would have been incomplete. With his utmost passion, he was ever ready to help. A lot of information and data gathered was exchanged through the blessed application of Whatsapp. The content for the web portal, incuding meanings of songs, poems in hindi and several other word translations were translated in and from Kinnauri by him and his fellow aquaintances.

MAKING OF the stop motion To make the landing page of the website, my dear friend Vikrant Mishra took the initiative of making a stop motion inspired by the paper-cut artists, Hari and Deepti. The concept was have a metaphic representation of the community in the Himalayas coming together for the community radio station.

Tools/Materials required: •Imperial sized cartridge sheets •Sunboard strips •Yellow LED lights •Human figurine

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Audios chosen for the soundscape •Bells ringing •Women speaking in Kinnauri •Crowd chatter from Reckong Peo •Wind blowing

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FLOW OF the stop motion

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लाइव

हमारे बारे में

हमें सब्सक्राइब करें

अपनी कहानी प्रस्तुत करें

िकन्नौरी ज़ुबानी

ऐसे-ऐसे िकन्नौर में

सेक्यौर िहमालय संगठन से जुड़े

िकन्नौरी लोकगीत

िहन्दी | अं​ंग्रेज़ी

आज की चचार्

हमारे बारे में हम यह� ‘िकन्नौर के िकस्से’ पर समुदायों और उनकी आवाज़ों को सुनने और बुलंद करने में िवश्वास रखते है ।

‘िहम जो गूंजे’ के िहस्से के �प में , यह समुदायीक रेिडयो स्टेशन, इस समाज और समुदाय के हर तबके के लोग,

उनकी समस्या�ए, उनके मुद्​्दों को जोड़ती ह ै। लिक्षत दशर्क के िलए हमारा रेिसयो- उनकी बातें, उनकी खबरों,

उनके समस्त जो भी समस्या�ए है, जो भी चीज़ उनसे संबंिधत है, जाग�क करने वाली खबरें, चचार्�ए, क्षेत्रीय संगीत इन सब को आपके घर और कानों तक प�हुचाता हैं।

हमारा अपना रेिडयो, सशक्त रेिडयो, सब से जुड़ने में मद्द करता है। इस एकता और चेतना की धुन देने वाला एक खास माध्यम है, जो समुदाय के बीच से उठता है, बनता है, और उसी के काम आता है। हम िविभन्न तबके के लोगों को वचनबुद्घ करने की क्षमता रखने है। साथ चलकर, सामािजक एंव न्यायीक दायरों में रहकर, स्थानीय संवेदना के प्रित आदर रखते हुए, समुदाय के प्रगित के िलए काम करते है।

‘िकन्नौर के िकस्से’ सामािजक और सांस्कृितक आंदोलन का केन्द्र िबंदु है और हमारा ल�य है िक िकन्नौर का हर आवाज़ कहे - “ हमारा िकन्नौर तो बेस्ट है।”

हमसे संपकर् करें

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लाइव

हमें सब्सक्राइब करें

हमारे बारे में

िकन्नौरी ज़ुबानी

अपनी कहानी प्रस्तुत करें

ऐसे-ऐसे िकन्नौर में

सेक्यौर िहमालय संगठन से जुड़े

िकन्नौरी लोकगीत

िहन्दी | अं​ंग्रेज़ी

आज की चचार्

लाइव

पहाड़ो की गूंज और वािदयों की धुन मे खो जाने के लिए,

हमारे िदलो से जुड़ जाने के लिए,

आइए हम िकन्निरयों को सुिनए। हमारे साथ नाचे-गाए और उसमंे खो जाए।

हमारे सुर से, आपना सुर िमलाए।

सुिनए ‘िकन्नौर के िकस्स’े लाइव !

हमसे संपकर् करें

िकन्नौर के िकस्से

खोज

वोलयुम

मेन पेज पर जाए

Live Page लाइव

हमारे बारे में

हमें सब्सक्राइब करें

िकन्नौरी ज़ुबानी

अपनी कहानी प्रस्तुत करें

ऐसे-ऐसे िकन्नौर में

सेक्यौर िहमालय संगठन से जुड़े

िकन्नौरी लोकगीत

िहन्दी | अं​ंग्रेज़ी

आज की चचार्

सबिमट करें

हमसे संपकर् करें

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वोलयुम

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The concept book- Him jo goonje The book is a collation of facts, research, and concepts that would lead to the intiation of Community Radio in the Trans Himalayan region. It is to throw light to the stakeholders, the local design, programming policies and the community radio and new media system. It aims to be a part of the pitch along the website making the project idea clear and understandable.

Him Jo Goonje’s role in communication when working with rural groups is of a facilitator and a catalyst in encouraging people’s own voices and findings. These are thus responsive to the needs of the community. The book also holds conversations and interviews form the primary site(Pangi), which gives the concept more ground on why the people of the Trans Himalayan region need better and effective communication tools.

Further Research Questions: •How can the system be made more flexible?

•Why would someone want to share his story and come to the station?

•What are the follow up systems?

Are there any prevalent local systems those can lead interventions?

•Who and how is the community radio going to sustain?

•In order to setup community radio stations it is imperative to start campaigns, initiatives and identity champions and collaborators.

•With a diverse range of communities living in the region how does a community radio station bring out and nurture interdependencies?

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Understanding the Digital Space(UX/UI) One of the most challenging part of this project was to decode the nuances and technicalities of UX/ UI. It was imperative to create a layout that would be effecient and cater to the Web Responsive Design. A Responsive Web Design is the approach that suggests that design and development should respond to the users behaviour and environment based on screen size, platform and orientation.

This would help in future proofing the work with modular and elementary programming.

Understanding ‘Bootstrap Framework’ was integral because it is an open source framework that combines HTML,CSS and JavaScript and help coders develop web applications. There are available built in capacities that automatically resize the application from website to mobile app.

In a mobile layout, it follows a single column grid, where images and other elements become centrally aligned for the reader/ user to access it effeciently.

For the website to be a localised interface, the coders and developers make different versions of the same website in different languages, suitable for the user. So while designing a website one has to be liberal with blank spcae, for same bodycopy/ message takes different amount of space in different languages.

Shorter text has more space reserved for translation dependign on information density.

Thus the proposed system calls for a Human Managed system to keep all the technicalities in check.

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Translation of the webpage

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हमें सब्सक्राइब करें

हमारे बारे में

सेक्यौर िहमालय संगठन से जुड़े

अपनी कहानी प्रस्तुत करें

िकन्नौरी ज़ुबानी

ऐसे-ऐसे िकन्नौर में

िकन्नौरी लोकगीत

िहन्दी | अं​ंग्रेज़ी

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ऐसे-ऐसे िकन्नौर मे˙

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AISE AISE KINNAUR MEIN

AAJ KI CHARCHA

Our Kinnaur presents a variety of enchanting spectacles of the wildest, sublimest scenery of the Himalayas. There are green hills, beautiful small valleys and vast alpine meadows, native to lush

सब कुछ तो हंे। िकन्नौर की सुंदरता यँहा के सिम्मिलत और एक दूसरंे मंे गुथ,े िहन्दु और बौध धमर् की कहानी बताती

green nutritious grasses and a plentitude of colourful flowers. Kinnaur is a place which thrives in its

ॠिष-मुिनयों को आकर्िषत िकया है। सृि� के एक अद्भुत चमत्कार की िनशानी है िकन्नौर िजसनंे हर आने वाले को

Kinnaur, home to a warm and hospitable people, and nature’s most spectacular work on earth,

pristine excellence embedded in both Hindu and Buddhist culture.

है�। एक प्राचीन कथा है�, जो हर कणर् मे� मौजूद है। यँहा के लोग, सीधे- सादे, खुले-मन के मालिक है िजन्होनंे सिदयों से

has for centuries lured sages, adventurers and travellers, all of whom inspired by the bewildering

सम्मोिहत और प्रेिरत िकया है यँहा के सरल लोग और संस्कृित के बारे मे िलखने के िलए।

diversity of its people have glorified both the land and its people.

आज के “ऐसे-ऐसे िकन्नौर में” के खण्ड मंे आपके सामने िकन्नौर की कीर्ती को प्रस्तुत करंेगे।

In this segment of Aise Aise Kinnaur mein, we bring to you all the glories of Kinnaur.

अब ऊषा नेगी को सुिनए जो आपको िकन्नौर के गौरव और प्रथाओं से आपका पिरचय कराएंगी।

Listen to Usha Negi as she takes you through Kinnaur, highlighting our supreme heritage and practices.

“For Cha, a big container full of water is put to boil with wild tea leaves, salt, milk, butter, walnut, almond and spices. This tea, similar to Tibetan buttered salty tea, is supposed to quench the thirst and be good for general health.”

सुंदर देवी के अनुसार “ चाह के िलए, एक बड़े से फ़ानदेल मंे पानी भर कर उस्मंे जंगली चाय पत्ती, नमक, दूध, मक्खन, अखरोट, बादाम, और मसाल�े डालकर उबाल लंे । ये चाह, ितब्बती नमकीन चाय की तरह आपकी प्यास बुझाता हंै, और स्वास्थय के िलए भी पोषक हंै।

हम फापरा से िचलटा बनाते है, जो की कोिलस्ट्ररोल को संतुिलत रखता है। ब्लड प्रशर बढ़ता नहीं, और चीनी भी िनय�ित्रत रहता है। ये हमारे उपवास का भी भोजन है।”

खोज

KINNAURI LOKGEET

िकन्नौर के िकस्से

Hindi | English

Aise-Aise Kinnaur Mein

हमारा िकन्नौर , सृि� के अद्भुत �प और रंग मंे िहमालय की हरी-भरी सौम्य गोद और वादी को दशार्ता हंै। यँहा ऊचंे

हरयाली से भरे पहाड़, छोटी- छोटी घािटँया, लम्बे बाँह फैलाए घास के मैदान, रंगो की चादर फैलाए वो फूल-पित्तय�-

हमसे संपकर् करें

Go to Secure Himalayas Website

“We make Chilta from Phapra which maintains the cholesterol level in our body. The blood pressure doesn’t rise and sugar remains controlled. We use such dishes in our fast also,”

वोलयुम

मेन पेज पर जाए

Contact Us

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MY LEARNINGS

SKILLS PRACTICED/HONED • • • • • •

Research/ Conceptualization/Mapping Narrative Building Writing Illustrating Visualising Content Collecting Stories

SKILLS ACQUIRED • • • • •

Branding/ Logo Making System Designing Audio Recording and Editing Understanding UX/UI Typing and Translating in Devanagri/ Hindi • Media Systems • Editorial

Him Jo Goonje Project

PERSONAL/SOCIAL SKILLS • • • • • • • • •

Collaborations Networking Interviewing Patience Responsible Empathy Inquisitiveness Punctual Always Pushing boundaries

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REFLECTIVE STATEMENT “Mein Radio mein shakti dekhta hu,” this quote by Gandhi has stayed with me through all the phases of the project and contributed to my motivation. This project, Mountain Ghost Trail, based in the Himalayas, was an insightful journey which I undertook. The joy of seeing the landscape, excavating stories, building relationships through umpteen different lenses allowed me to grow emotionally and academically. Being a client project, the core idea was to look at the ethos of the dynamic landscape and find creative opportunites to bring forth better communications systems. It opened several new areas of design research and data collection, and use of design methodologies to witness and experience the field.

Working and experiencing ‘the field’ is highly rewarding. It’s an opportunity for diverse conversations, excavation of multi-cultural layers and heritage. In my practice, there is a sheer enthusiasm of building a narrative through dialogues, interviews, local and traditional knowledge. This project unfolded various ways of recording the field. Walking, interviweing , audio recording became evocative methods as we traversed through the rugged landscape of Kinnaur. With snow upto our knees, trembling, falling while we trekked, looking for the hero of our stories, as the project unfurled, it made me stronger everyday.

These four months have been an extensive journey, where thought processes were nurtured and my outlook was changed. I let the project carve its’ own path, as it changed conceptually and visually, with the guided feedback of seminar panellists and my facilitators.

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This project, “Him jo Goonje,� proposes the initiation of community radio stations as the epicentre of cultural and social movements and we aspire to be the echo of the voices those transcend from the Himalayas. We at Him Jo Goonje believe in strengthening communities and their voices. This community radio serves an invaluable purpose in airing cultural histories, stories, achievements, businesses, issues and spark discussion. It is Amalgamating both the traditional radio and the new media, the proposed system gives an opportunity to the locals to assert cultural identity and selfexpression in another realm, that is the digital space.

During this phase, I gained innumerable learnings. With serveral readings, conversations, skill development and collaborations, I realised the scope of this project and the innumerable possiblities it has now uncovered. These four months brought in some deep anxieties, sudden changes, rewards and failures. As a creative practicioner, I honed my research and concept bulding abilities and also found new interests being journalism and editorial and sound design.

Therefore it has been a unique, relentless journey where several paths collided and at that moment possibilities were vast.

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