On 17th Nov a team from Avani went to Jhuni to install solar panels and batteries. Thanks to YOUR donations the first 24 Jhuni families now have light in their homes! 15 more will receive...

On 23 Aug, in three towns across India: Bangalore, Gurgaon and Kochi, all five short films of ‘Smiles From Off The Road’ were shown during a Movie & Music Festival organised by the book and music stores Reliance TimeOut.

June 1st 2011: WE HAVE ‘TIL NOW RAISED Rs500,000 and more than fifty homes are solar lighted. May 15th 2011: I HAVE JUST RETURNED FROM A LOVELY VISIT TO JHUNI, WHERE WE DISTRIBUTED 100 ROBUST SOLAR FLASHLIGHTS (DONATED FROM USA) AT A NOMINAL COST OF RS80 EACH. THE RESULTING RS8000 WILL BE USED TO PROVIDE ONE SOLAR LIGHTING SYSTEM FOR THE VILLAGE TEMPLE. I AM NOW CHANGING THIS APPEAL FOR FUNDS. THOSE VILLAGERS...

Watch video SMILES FROM OFF THE ROAD 3 -TRAVELS WITH A HAT My film “Smiles From Off The Road 3 -Travels With A Hat” was shot in Juni village in the Kumaon Himalayas, India in May 2009. Juni sits on the edge of Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve; due North there is nothing but thick forest and a jumble of 22,000 ft peaks up to the Tibetan border. The village is three hours steep walk from the nearest rough road,...

Osho talking about the adivasis (tribals) of Bastar in central India: “ They are some of the most beautiful people in the world, they should be preserved. They are the only happy people, they know how to dance and how to sing, how to love and how to enjoy life. They don’t philosophize, they don’t know arithmetic, and they don’t know history and they don’t know geography and they cannot write, but they still...