Amir Chand
2017/2017
Project FUEL
India
“I was working in Dehradun around the freedom struggle. When the partition was announced, the riots broke out in the country. I saw people being killed in front of my eyes. We were 7 boys from the same village working there and over night we decided that we have to go back to our village to save our lives. We trekked for two days, hiding in several spots to make it back. After the situation improved, I wrote a letter to the Deputy Director I was working with before escaping and requested him to send my salary by money order if possible. He actually did send Rs. 36 as the sum total of my salary. I couldn't believe someone could be so kind and generous amidst such hatred. That was a defining moment of my life.”
Life Lesson: “Look for the light amidst the dark”
-Amir Chand, 93
- Title: Amir Chand
- Date Created: 2017/2017
- Location: Saur, Tehri Garhwal, Uttarakhand
- Contributor: The initiative in Saur, sponsored by RoundGlass and supported by Due North uniquely addressed the problem of migration to urban spaces. Saur is now the first village in recent history to have a documented database of life lessons from an entire community exhibited on the exterior of every house wall including the abandoned ones.
- External Link: RoundGlass, Due North
- Project: The Wise Wall Project is an initiative by Project FUEL and FUEL Foundation to document the rural wisdom of our villages and celebrate it through art murals. The initiative transforms villages into living classrooms, turning the walls of the same onto blackboards and canvases that uncover striking yet simple life learnings. The project aims to ignite a movement of transforming the long forgotten villages into open-air galleries, exhibiting human wisdom for anyone and everyone in the world to see and benefit from. The Wise Wall Project in rural Uttarakhand's Saur village in Tehri Garhwal documented the life lessons of an entire village and then showcased the collective wisdom through art on the walls of the village. This initiative in Saur was sponsored by RoundGlass and supported by Due North. We envisioned The Wise Wall Project to be a statement in and of itself. And Saur is now the first village in recent history to have a documented database of life lessons from an entire community exhibited on the exterior of every house wall including the abandoned ones. A village has now been transformed into a big classroom with each wall being a blackboard that uncovers striking yet simple life learnings.
- Photography: Vibhor Yadav
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