Haryali Handi: new signatures of sustainability from grassroots to Global
Saatvik 2010 is the eighth edition of tradition Food Festival organised by SRISTI in collaboration in collaboration with National Innovation Foundation ( NIF), Grassroots Innovation Augmentation Network( west) GIAN, and a large number of colleagues form IIMA . While there are variety of traditional and nutritional foods and other products from Karnataka, Kerala, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttrakhand, Haryana, Rajasthan, Orissa etc., , there are several new innovative products in the central section of innovation exhibition at new campus of IIMA.
Dhanuk community, ambala, chhota Udaipur, Vadodara has brought non stick-clay pots completely natural. While mansukh bhai was the pioneer of non stick clay pot ( who also has a stall in Sattvik) but he still used food grade chemical to make the plate non stick. The one by Dhanuk community is based clay polished by a lac which grows on a ‘phoim’ tree found in that region. The quality of this lac for cooking has been tested in SRISTI lab also. The community has been cooking on it for ages and Sadhana has been using it at my home for months. This is unique contribution from Gujarat to the wt to iron clothes at home. Dhramaveer from Haryana has made machine for processing various fruits and vegetables while jaydeep and abhishek from Suryansh group from uttrakhand have made products based on aloe vera juice pith. Dharamveer does not feel that his products are getting competition by people whom he has sold machines, he feels happy that better quality products are coming to market. Collaborative, distributed and horizontal markets will change the polity of the nation as well. More than ten thousand people have voted through their purchase decision that markets for sustainable products and services exist. We have to now create a permanent place where such things are also sold round the year. May be some social entrepreneurs will come forward to join hands for Innovation exhibition, sales points and collaborative learning labs for various kinds of products, including food.
Anil K Gupta
