DV Sridharan | Wisdom – from the Sea to the Farm
- DV Sridharan was born four years before the independence and has witnessed three or life phases, all about migrations.
- He comes from a small village and has seen Indian civilization drifting from the villages to now move overseas.
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Overview
In an attempt to live the social-media famous good life, we often tend to plan to migrate to metropolitan cities of India or overseas as well. In this race, the young generation migrating away from their land are losing connection to their motherland and culture. In this episode, we discuss the importance of connection with the grassroots and also attempt to understand the meaning of environmentalism.
[00:41] – About DV Sridharan
- DV Sridharan was born four years before the independence and has witnessed three or life phases, all about migrations.
- He comes from a small village and has seen Indian civilization drifting from the villages to now move overseas.
[06:19] – You state you “groped for his misplaced identity, and found an agreeable one after travelling across India”please help me understand
- It was at the age of 30 that I decided to leave the sea for good. I relocated to Chennai and secured a job, but tragedy struck as my wife passed away within a few years.
- Seeking solace, I made the move to the countryside, living alone and indulging in my passion for reading.
- Surrounded by villages, I witnessed homes seamlessly blending with the land, deeply rooted in Indian soil. I, on the other hand, felt like an outsider, disconnected from the essence of the country.
- Prejudices formed through literature started shaping my perception of India, but upon seeing the people and their way of life, I realized that India couldn’t possibly be as negative as portrayed.
[15:37] – Restoring a 20-acre wasteland into a thriving natural habitat with a school for 125 children. The goal is to expand it into a high school, fostering a love and respect for nature. Tell me about the project, its development, and the learnings and challenges you’ve encountered.
- I am not a scholar, I’m not an intellectual, I’m not a much published author.
- What I can do is to be closer to the villagers, work with my hands and do the things that they do.
- I decided to work on a piece of barren land and make it useful for the public.
- I call it the orphaned piece of India that nobody wanted, no food had ever grown there, had no topsoil, water, or electricity.
- The owner was trying to sell it for 40 years. I took it up as a challenge.
- I’m a marine engineer, and we like to do things with our hands, so I said I’m not a rich man, but I have enough money for it.
- I decided to put trees there and make it very pretty. So, I began that way. I turned it around with a water-rich place now with extensive rainwater harvesting and I bought myself an excavator and dug the swales myself.
- Slowly the bees started to come, then bushed. Then, I planted the trees never for income but mostly to build a habitat where animals and birds can come.
- Just to ensure that this land doesn’t fall in somebody else’s hand, and they vandalize what I have done and start building a wedding hall or a hotel, I gave it to a school. I said you run a school there, teach children the environmentalism that it took for us to come this far. I go and talk to the children too.
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- DV Sridharan was born four years before the independence and has witnessed three or life phases, all about migrations.
- He comes from a small village and has seen Indian civilization drifting from the villages to now move overseas.
