Daybreak in Real Time
I am but a bystander to the history being written.
Sahitya Poonacha
'Literature' is my name and I am living up to it. I am a writer and journalist always in search of the next story I can tell. Whether it be for mainstream media, companies, or through poetry, my work strives to make a difference where it really matters. My biggest learning yet? There is no story too small to tell as long as we tell it with integrity and passion.
That said, here is a map of my work. If you like what you read, let's collaborate!
Home: From a Distance
A poem in Kodavatakk, transcending borders through poetry.
#1 From Coorg, With Love
Maybe Coorg is not a search engine optimized enough but it matters to me. If you were to search the web and not find answers to your questions one day, would you be surprised? For a Kodava or ‘Coorgi’ as most dub us, we grow up often not being able to relate to our culture within the mainstream constantly struggling to explain ourselves to the majority.
Plastic Action in Rural India with the Alliance to End Plastic Waste
What will it take to solve the global plastic waste crisis? In a world where 3 billion people still lack access to waste disposal systems, waste is often dumped or burned. One way to start tackling this is by enabling communities to manage their plastic waste better. Doing so requires collaborative action and strategic partnerships as powerful catalysts for change. Building strong partnerships underlines all that we do at rePurpose Global. We constantly seek out organizations, innovators, brand...
The Pause by Sahitya Poonacha
Ijtihad '17
Ijtihad | Vol.4 | 2017
IJTIHAD '16
The annual academic journal of Department of History, Lady Shri Ram College. Editors – in – Chief: Aishwarya Upadhyay Sahitya Poonacha Sub-Editors: Aditi Kumar Trishla Bafna Irandati Pal Jhilam Roy Cover Art-Bhavya
Yakshagana
By Sahitya Poonacha & Ram IAS
This piece "Yakshagana: The Celestial Beauty of Dance" was published in Macmillan's English Brook Reader for class 7 students in India.
Sahitya Poonacha
Just an eager student who has an insatiable thirst to be aware and to make people aware.
Sahitya Poonacha | | Citizen Matters, Bengaluru
What happens when a community becomes aware of the problems of generating excess waste and hoarding unwanted things? Renting, selling, upcycling – there are many ways to deal with it, and they will all be explored. An enterprising story from Whitefield.
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Nepal’s tattoo artist John Ma, who made his own tattoo machine when he was 15, talks of how South Asia, specially India, is a growing market
No Left No Right, Just in between
Cambodia is a historian’s playground. With its dynamic history of conflict and religiosity that goes back to the ancient, makes for an interesting tourist’s experience. It’s not your average tourist destination with flashy malls, well-marked roads, and great connectivity. But more than being home to the famous ‘Angkor Wat‘, home to a population that has seen some of the worst times in history. When we talk of genocide how rarely do we talk about the Khmer Rouge? But the people of Cambodia an ex-
Where It All Began
Delhi is more than just the capital of India. In our case more than just a city with the country’s best options for a good education in Humanities. For us it was home for three years, it was the hottest and the coldest city that frustrated us to the point that our love for Guwahati and Bangalore respectively grew in paramount proportions. But weather and academic pressure aside, that’s where our journey began.
We stumbled the first few days (months), took our time not only to adjust to the idea
