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Grassroots Nation, is a series in which we deep dive into the life, work and guiding philosophies of some of the country’s most great leaders of social change.

The podcast is co-produced by Vaaka Media.

Part personal narrative, part oral history, each episode gives you, the listener, a chance to revisit watershed moments in India’s past through the eyes of the country’s social architects and find out how they were the catalyst for their life’s calling.

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Mari Thekaekara: I cannot bear it when people say they come to uplift someone

In the 20th Episode of Grassroots Nation, Mari Marcel Thekaekara,  writer and co-founder of ACCORD – the Action for Community Organisation, Rehabilitation and Development is in conversation with Dr. Roopa Devadasan, a Public Health expert and school teacher.

This conversation was recorded at the Bangalore International Centre in Bengaluru.

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Stan Thekaekera: How do you strategically plan to eliminate fear? (Part 1)

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Dr Darshan Shankar: Traditional knowledge has contemporary relevance

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Maja Daruwala: Prisons are the dumping ground for all the dysfunctions in the justice system

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Vijay Mahajan: The engineer who showed India that the rural poor are credit worthy

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Dr Yellappa Reddy: The Trees Must Always Come First

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