As city dwellers, we would have noticed how the summers have gotten hotter than what they were ten years ago and how it sometimes rains much more than it used to in the past. But do we know how climate change impacts the lives of people in India's villages? What is the impact of the climate crisis on farming and the farmers of India?
The People's Archive of Rural India (PARI), has published a series of stories on climate change from multiple climate and agro-ecological zones across the country – through the voices and lived experiences of ordinary Indians - nomadic pastoralists, farmers, fisher folk and others.
For about 25 years since 1987, two social scientists from Pune and their team collected over 110,000 grindmill songs that rural women sang as they worked every day at the stone mill. This huge jatyavarchi ovi collection is being published on PARI alongwith the stories of women who sing them under the Grindmill Songs Project (GSP). The collection speaks of the diversity and depth of this form, through which the women sing of everyday life, patriarchy, caste, poet-saints, historical events, Babasaheb Ambedkar and more.
