Illustration/ Ravi Jadhav

This week, a batch of students that I had mentored at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), had their convocation ceremony. They were participants in the Prime Minister's Rural Development Fellowship (PMRDF), coming from all over the country. I had conducted a journalism workshop for 60 Fellows, and edited a book of their reports, with insights from the field, for TISS in 2015. The batch has just graduated with a Master's in Development Practice. (Yes, I have a rich life outside the movies, working with development issues).