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Haathigaon: A Unique Feat In Sustainable Indian Architecture

Haathigaon: A Unique Feat In Sustainable Indian Architecture

by The Daily Eye Team April 10 2014, 2:50 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 47 secs

In a country as chaotic as ours, it’s always a distinct pleasure to witness architectural feats that lean towards sustainability. This is exactly the ethos that Rahul Mehrotra’s project ‘Haathigaon’ embodied and thankfully, even received admiration for. In fact, this government-organized project that saw them create a housing project for 100 elephants and their Mahouts (care-takers) actually won the urbanist/ architect/ educator’s firm RMA win a gold medal for sustainable architecture which is annually organized by the Italian university of Ferrara. A mahout starts as a boy in the ‘family profession’ when he is assigned an elephant early in its life. They remain bonded to each other throughout their lives. thanks to skill and a cultivated, longstanding relationship, the mahout is the sole person the elephant will obey; however, the keepers are not well paid– their salary totals about 5,000 rupees ($100) per month

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Former Director Ideation at Zee Network, filmmaker and writer Vinta Nanda is the editor of The Daily Eye, and has recently directed a feature-length documentary on feminism in India titled #SHOUT. Vinta produced, directed and wrote television serials including Tara, Raahein, Raahat, Aur Phir Ek Din and Miilee. Her film, White Noise (2004), was screened at international film festivals. Her Edutainment work includes the serials Sheila and Kasbah, feature film Anant, and Documentary, The Distant Thunder and she led The Third Eye program from 2013 to 2018 in partnership with Hollywood Health and Society, Norman Lear Center, USC Annenberg, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which built platforms for interactions  between creative communities and specialists, experts, social scientists and activists to initiate the idea of conscious storytelling.


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