This is my Vedanthangal. How many times have I stared at the outline of palm trees and the infinite rice fields... How many sunsets, how many dreams... How many plans, how many smiles...in the warmth of the end of the day, when the pots start clinking in the huts in preparation for dinner and the last farmers follow their cattle back home... In the distance, the laughter of children, the chatter of adults and, meanwhile, I continue to stare into space, getting lost, so lost..

So, at the end of our first week, what has Thomas learnt...? What have I learnt...? I guess we could answer those questions in so many different ways. The learning process is ongoing (like it always is) and it's hard to put all those experiences into words. Our senses are being fed all the time, the colours, the sounds, the flavours... There's no place like India for that. The videos below will tell you more about us, not necessarily in a professional sense but perhaps you'll

In the last few weeks, we've been preparing our trip to India in lots of different ways. One of them was by asking two teachers in Barcelona, Merche and Judit, to help us organise activities for the after-school support centres in Vedanthangal. There were three conditions: the activities had to involve creativity, playfulness and last a maximum of two hours. Merche and Judit came up with lots of ideas and sent us a lovely video explaining them to us. On our first day at SCI T

We're so happy to be celebrating the beginning of a new year in Vedanthangal… We took our first full day in the village to explore the surroundings, took a little walk to the birds' sanctuary and wandered aimlessly along the happening intricate streets of Vedanthangal. A few surprises along the way that we wanted to share with you... The Indian Futures team wishes you all a year full of happiness, love & peace

Arrival in India. Chennai airport. The heat. The people. The smells. All of a sudden, you're submerged. There isn't a choice. In India you're in India. You can't be halfway in India. Fully in, we made our way towards our final destination: Vedanthangal. After an emotionally charged day -the last day of 2018-, when we finally had time to sit back, and think, we decided that rather than putting words to the indescribable we would publish the next month's blog in the form of vid

Two weeks ago we informed you of the beginning of an exciting brand new project called Futuraula. The project is being run by a very proactive group of students from Euroaula, Barcelona University of Tourism, whom we're proud and eager to introduce to you straight away... Here they are, and they're here to stay! This awesome group of people have taken upon themselves the challenging and labourious task of organising fundraising events for Indian Futures through the whole acad

Hello dear blog readers! It's been a long time since we last posted anything on our blog… This doesn’t mean we’ve done nothing. On the contrary, the IF Team have been so busy we haven’t had time to blog anything! But we’re here now, happy and excited to tell you about a brand-new project that’s just started in Barcelona. Our project is called Futuraula which is the (witty!) result of a combination of Euroaula and Indian Futures. And what’s Euroaula, you’ll wonder…? Well, Euro

Thursday 12th April; I was traveling from Barcelona to Brighton to perform for Indian Futures. The venue, the Rose Hill. It couldn't have been a better place. Such a personality; warm and varied lighting, low tables covered in brightly coloured cloths, and on the toilet doors, paintings that resembled the pop art style of the 50s. Homely atmosphere; friends, familiar faces, friendly faces. So easy to feel at ease. Anna and Tom were at the door, welcoming people, selling cards

Writing about an event, or anything for that matter!, after a few weeks tends to be a bit of a memory challenge. I try to avoid it as much as I can, particularly as I’ve never trusted my memory, but there are times, like this one, when there is just no way around it. Today, I discover with great delight, that despite the weeks gone by, I remember Indian Futures night at the Rose Hill with unusual clarity. I remember the preparation, the excitement, almost fear, and that last

Which popular board game, originating in India, was invented to teach about Karma? I thought that was a good question. The answer to which I of course didn't know until a couple of weeks ago. We've never planned a quiz before, not the whole thing anyway. Last year when we had our first quiz at The Windmill we had help and someone else came up with the questions. This time around it was down to Anna, Anita and me. I'm fortunate in that I have the head space while at work to le

Dear all It's been a while since the last time the IF Team posted a blog which doesn't mean we haven't been working hard... On the contrary! This blog is both a tribute to two very special people who have given their whole selves (almost literally...) to support our cause, and an update on the exciting IF adventures planned for this new fresh year. Indian Futures cannot thank enough Shawn and Nick, our two runners, inspiring athletes with a social commitment that defies all b

Dear all 2017 was an exciting year for us, Indian Futurers. After years of juggling ideas, of day dreaming, we finally came up with a way of supporting the projects in the part of the world we're so in love with... Vedanthangal. And so Indian Futures was born. We had an amazing summer at Patchfest and Brunswick festivals and a brilliant quiz night at the Windmill in early autumn. Then winter came and we started our Christmas campaign. We came up with the 'Don't Buy, Donate' c

This Christmas I've decided not to send cards. Instead, I'm going to donate the money I would have spent to Indian Futures for the Don't buy, Donate campaign. I told one friend that I won't be buying cards this year, their response was "Bah, Humbug!" That got me thinking. Didn't Scrooge teach us that we need to look after each other and it's good to give, especially to those in greatest need? I could spend £30 on a big box of cards and buy individual ones for my family. They

Dear all Just a few lines to thank you all for taking part in Indian Futures' first ever pub quiz! The event took place on Thursday 28th September at the Windmill, Brighton. Our lovely Events' Coordinator, Anita, did a brilliant job at presenting the quiz that had an added interesting twist... The Cheese Round! Pub quizzers were given four different cheeses and had to guess the name and country each cheese was from. All quite cheesy but everyone seemed to enjoy our little tas

Dear website visitors... On 19th and 20th August, Indian Futures took part in the Brunswick Festival, two days of intense experiences, fantastic bands, stalls and, of course all the lovely visitors who came to see our stall and donated a total of £323.70! As you can imagine, we're absolutely delighted with the success of our stall and would like to thank all those lovely beings that made it a reality. Between Patchfest and Brunswick, we nearly have £500 that we'll put towards

We made our first public appearance at Patchfest, Brighton, last Saturday 15th July. The event went incredibly well! The stall was always full of people browsing through our items on sale (beautiful prints from FirmGently, incense, clothes, books, DVDs, etc, etc, etc...), playing our popular Carrom game, in search of their lucky dip or just enquiring about the work we do. We raised a total of £150!! From Indian Futures, we would like to thanks all those who came to support us

Thank you for visiting our new website! We're still working hard on updating it, but please bookmark and visit us in future for more updates around the charity... #welcome #new #first #indianfutures #education #India