Winter has finally come, it's time to take the morning off and enjoy the #earthly #pleasure of #heavenly #pristine snow," reads one post with a photo of snow-clad fields on the Instagram channel @voicesofmunsiari. This is no holiday post by a visiting city-dweller, but the musings of a villager in Munsiari, a Himalayan settlement in Uttarakhand near the India-China border. With more than 100 posts, the channel already has close to 1,000 followers.
@voicesofmunsiari could easily be the country's first community-run Instagram channel. Here's where young people from the villages of Munsiari block of Pithoragarh district upload photos and share stories with the world — of their lives, forests, colours of seasons and mountains — limited mobile connectivity and basic English notwithstanding.
Such efforts by youth can bring people even in such remote area so close to all and join the mainstream, courtesy the modern technology. Read more of this story by Arpita Chkrabarty in Sunday Times.......
