Swajana - our people.

Sonya - The Bull

The bullock cart is one thing you will find as a major means of transport in the rural areas of India. But can you imagine a bullock cart moving around in the fast moving traffic in the cities; well you can watch this video then.

The Tailor

Sudhan Sarvoday is a tailor in Pune, India .He is running this business for past thirty years. At the same time he also conducts various side businesses with the help of his wife. HHHHe sells leftover pieces of clothes to paper producing industries. His wife sells utensils in exchange of old clothes. Then they mend the clothes if necessary and then Sudhan sells them in a market where old/secondhand items are sold .He sells old jeans, shirts, sarees in the secondhand markets.

Ganpati Festival

Ganesh Festival is a day on which Lord Ganesha (also know as Ganpati or Ganesh), the son of Shiva and Parvati, is believed to bestow his presence on earth for all his devotees. Ganehsa is widely worshipped as the supreme god of wisdom, prosperity and good fortune. Traditional stories tell that Lord Ganesha was created by goddess Parvati, consort of Lord Shiva. Parvati created Ganesha out of sandalwood paste that she used for her bath and breathed life into the figure. She then set him to stand...

Share Auto Rickshaw

Auto rickshaws, or small motorized three wheeled transport vehicles which run on a motorcycle or scooter engine run all over India .Auto rickshaws have been modified in India to carry more passengers and are called share-autos. Office commuters find this version more economical since the fare is shared by more people. Competition among 'share' auto-wallahs has led to the virtual standardization of fare per passenger based on their destination.Shared autos play an important role in transporting...

Cyclewala-the bicycle doctor

Pravin Swaminathan Pillai (35),a bicycle repairer ,conducts his business at a lane in Koregaon Park ,Pune. Because of his family’s bad economic condition he had to quit his school in the fifth standard .Since then he started repairing bicycles. He has been doing this job for the past 15 years and with the savings of 15 hardworking years;he is all set to buy his own shop and conduct the same business on a larger scale.

Dahi Handi

Khilonewala - The Toyseller.

Every day lots of people from India's rural parts land in the metro's in search of Jobs. Each one has his own dream to live for. Some are Educated and some or not. The Educated half gets a job but the other half has no options. The only option they have is to do something on their own and to do that they set out on the streets selling stuff which is of dailty use. This hawkers sell anything such as eatables,utensils,stationery,clothing in short they sell everything at the cheapest of rates...T...

Girni - A flour Mill

In India people usually eat a lot of wheat and other foodgrains in the form of chapatis, bhakaris, bread or idlis etc. All this items are made of flour, the best part is that people don't buy this flour readymade from stores; instead they grind foodgrains at home using a GIRNI, a machine with 2 stone wheels placed on each other. The grains get grinded in between this stones to give out flour. Now a days this Girni's are replaced by their electrical counterparts which almost work on the same me...

Soum and Ankit discuss Video Blogging in India

Soumyadeep Paul (aka Soum) is a graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology(IIT) in Computer Science and is currently working with Mixercast. A film maker at heart and a tech vizard he was the first one in India to start video blogging. Soum's channels His Master's Toys and CSFVLOG on Blogger hosts a lot of interesting videos from India. Soum has also made a movie on Rickshaw, to get a glimpse of it visit Rickshaa - A film on three whells

Dindy - A Spiritual Journey

Dindy or Wari is a journey that thousands of devotees go for every year. It’s a journey from Alandi to a holy place called Pandharpur, which is near Kolhapur. Saint Dnyaneshwar started this tradition where all along this journey worshippers used to sing traditional songs called Abhanga. He used to walk barefoot with a flag in his hands, keeping his fast throughout the journey. Even after so many years have passed, worshippers from all the corners of Maharashtra go for this holy journey which i...