It was 12 years ago, in 2008, that I set out on a walk across rural Karnataka. Spread over 30 days, the walk covered 420 km and we passed through 120 villages located in five districts of Karnataka. I had worked over 20 years till then in remote tribal and rural locations, and found myself wrestling with the question of what development is and whose development I was engaging in.
Struggling to seek answers, I decided that this walk would help me reconnect and re-engage with India’s rural realities and possibly help me find. . .