Chikkamagalur

Ranganatha SR


Project Period: One year and three months

For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA that engages forty students from fifth, sixth and seventh grades of the Government Higher Primary School in Kudregundi village in Chikkamagalur district, to study Kuvempu’s Malegalalli Madumagalu, a novel written in the landscape that the students inhabit. The students will explore the landscape of the novel through guided field visits, meet elders, and bring the learnings into their creative writing. The outcome of this project will be a publication with the writings of the children. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be photographs, the publication and video documentation of the entire project. Project funds will pay for honorarium, printing, exhibition, stationery, workshop, professional fees, travel and documentation.