Season 2: 07–Samanvay: coming together with a shared purpose

"Samanvay" is a Hindi word with a translation into English: "to come together as a group to work for a common purpose."

This episode features perspectives from Megha from Ajmeer, Rajasthan (a state in India), and the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. In this episode, Megha and Amy discuss access to education, self-directed education, and Megha’s journey as an industrial design student at the Srishti Institute of Art Design and Technology.



Megha completed her master’s thesis while working in the handicraft sector across several different NGO (non-governmental organizations) projects in different states in India.

The word "craft" to Megha is a practice where a group of people share a similar process to create something useful and necessary. Crafts originated from a person within a community contributing to the needs of the community with something they are able to create through their material of choice. This is how the exchange of handcrafts was done in healthier times.

Her main motivating factors for her work are what affects people's livelihood, happiness and identity. Looking at all the factors that impact an artisan, Megha feels that anyone can be an artisan, as long as they are informed by the importance of the “Why."

Megha’s passions are rooted in sustainability and functionality. She aims to be involved with creating systems that serve the highest agenda: symbiotic relational-systems rooted in values of serving each other,  appreciating different products and techniques as art forms, and doing all that through the lens that the practice of using any resource must be sustainable.

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Question in the outtro from Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower (Earthseed #1)" Reader's Guide

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Intro music by Binho Manenti

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Background Tabla music from a musician in Ramana’s Garden, Rishikesh India (recorded February, 2019)

Outro music by /jazzyrobot/ (Ana Gomulka and Taylor Greenshields)

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Produced by Taylor Greenshields of Fundamental Sound Co.

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