One could not ignore the effects of the pandemic, including that of the lockdown on the people in the village. [...] The pandemic has paradoxically been a window of hope, one that has shown the world (especially the rural and the poor) the consequences of dependence on the State, the market and the cities. [...] He believed the answer to the majority of the challenges he observed in the modern world — concentration of wealth and power, inequality in access to resources, degradation of natural ecosystems, hoarding of knowledge and information, centralized systems of operations, class struggles, and more — was in Swaraj. [...] Due to the pandemic the fellowship was put on hold in 2020 and this gave the team the opportunity to rethink, reflect, redesign and reinvent the fellowship. [...] However, the strong connection of the Beejotsav community with the farmers and the consumers of Nagpur led to an on-ground initiative during the lockdown.
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