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Ulgulan Talks!

The Sangyan
4 min readFeb 20, 2023

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Ulgulan Talks! — an initiative of The Sangyan to document stories, lived experiences, narratives, and beyond to take cognisance of issues pertaining to law and policy and pursue a data-driven and evidence-based research and advocacy endeavour.

PS: Ulgulan meant, The Great Tumult (क्रांति की कोलाहल) and was a movement started by Birsa Munda against the exploitation and discrimination against tribals by the British Raj.

A traditional cooking setup from a tribal village with “The Sangyan: Ulgulan Talks!” written over it on the smaller platform and below the earthen chimney. The setup has eight small earthen chimneys over a small platform that settles over a larger platform all made up of soil and other natural ingredients and are brown in colour.
The Sangyan — Ulgulan Talks!

Please find the long-form interviews published as of date here:

  1. Ulgulan Talks! : Interview with Anjali Vyas
  2. Ulgulan Talks! : Interview with Alice Abraham
  3. Ulgulan Talks! : Interview with Gopika Anand
  4. Ulgulan Talks! : Interview with Kavya Poornima Balajepalli
  5. Ulgulan Talks! : Interview with Giridhar NV
  6. Ulgulan Talks! : Interview with Meenakshi Venkataraman
  7. Ulgulan Talks! : Interview with Kavya Mukhija
  8. Ulgulan Talks! : Interview with Puneet Singh Singhal
  9. Ulgulan Talks! : Interview with Swathi Gadepalli
  10. Ulgulan Talks! : Interview with Praful B
  11. Ulgulan Talks! : Interview with Kumar Mahavir
  12. Ulgulan Talks! : Interview with Ferdinand Lyngdoh
  13. Ulgulan Talks! : Interview with Shikha Uma Agarwal
  14. Ulgulan Talks! : Interview with Alma Chopra

Ulgulan Talks Postcard Series

The Sangyan’s Ulgulan Talks! Postcard Series is a part of the ‘Build Forward Better’ Campaign, which aims to highlight the stories and lived experiences of climate change-induced impacts from the perspective of vulnerable communities (especially persons with disabilities, including invisible disabilities, rare conditions, chronic illnesses, and other unrecognized and neglected disabilities) residing in different geographies and climatic zones of India (Bharat).

  1. Ar. Kavya Poornima Baljepalli from Visakhapatnam (India), Person with Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension [IIH] and its resultant Visual Impairment (Blindness)
Image Description [Alt Text]: A beige colour postcard with the title: “The Sangyan’s Ulgulan Talks! Postcard”; the following quote: “…Extreme weather and climatic conditions/events act as a threat multiplier that takes a toll on my physical and mental health with compromised immunity and productivity due to IIH, Osteoporosis, PCOS and other comorbidities. It leads to relapses, triggers climate anxiety owing to inaccessible Emergency Evacuation Plan, increases disability-adjusted life years, Etc.
Visual/Image Description [Alt Text]: The Sangyan’s Ulgulan Talks! Postcard — Ar. Kavya Poornima Baljepalli from Visakhapatnam (India), Person with Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension [IIH] and its resultant Visual Impairment (Blindness)

2. Anjali Vyas from Bhandara, Maharashtra (India), Person with Multiple Sclerosis [MS]

Image Description [Alt Text]: A beige colour postcard with the title: “The Sangyan’s Ulgulan Talks! Postcard”; the following quote: “People with MS are always advised to avoid/stay away from extreme hot and cold temperatures/climates as they can aggravate the symptoms of MS. The October Heat is another bothering period. Even though the symptoms affect my life on an everyday basis, summers aggravate fatigue, anxiety, and tingling, while in winter, I experience spasticity issues accompanied by pai
Visual/Image Description [Alt Text]: The Sangyan’s Ulgulan Talks! Postcard — Anjali Vyas from Bhandara, Maharashtra (India), Person with Multiple Sclerosis [MS]

3. Puneet Singh Singhal, from Delhi (India), Person with Undiagnosed Learning Disability and Stammering

A beige colour postcard with the title: “The Sangyan’s Ulgulan Talks! Postcard”; the following quote: “Living through a Delhi heatwave, in a ramshackle home with no respite from the sweltering heat, feels like being trapped in an oven. The sun becomes an unforgiving enemy, and the air becomes a suffocating shroud during winters. During one unbearable summer, our neighbourhood faced an acute water crisis.” and “My mother’s existing health issues were aggravated terribly. Dehydration ravaged her b
The Sangyan’s Ulgulan Talks! Postcard —Puneet Singh Singhal, from Delhi (India), Person with Undiagnosed Learning Disability and Stammering

4. Adv. Shikha Uma Agarwal from Delhi-NCR (India), Person with Locomotor Disability [Diagnosed with Poliomyelitis and Scoliosis]

Image Description [Alt Text]: A beige colour postcard with the title: “The Sangyan’s Ulgulan Talks! Postcard”; the following quote: “Extreme winters are troublesome as I bear severe back pain during this weather. The calf muscles and feet get swollen and inflamed during harsh winters, making it difficult to sit with legs dangling down. Hence I have to take breaks in between my work hours to lie down for rest and also limit roaming on wheelchair and rather stay on bed. Word limit.
The Sangyan’s Ulgulan Talks! Postcard — Adv. Shikha Uma Agarwal from Delhi-NCR (India), Person with Locomotor Disability [Diagnosed with Poliomyelitis and Scoliosis]

5. Swathi Gadepalli from Hyderabad, Telangana (India), Person with Locomotor Disability [Hereditary Motor and Sensory Neuropathy]

Visual/Image Description [Alt Text]: The Sangyan’s Ulgulan Talks! Postcard — Swathi Gadepalli from Hyderabad, Telangana (India), Person with Locomotor Disability [Hereditary Motor and Sensory Neuropathy]

6. Gopika Anand from Ranchi, Jharkhand (India), Person with Locomotor Disability [Spinal Cord Injury]

Visual/Image Description [Alt Text]: The Sangyan’s Ulgulan Talks! Postcard — Gopika Anand from Ranchi, Jharkhand (India), Person with Locomotor Disability [Spinal Cord Injury]

7. Kavya Mukhija from Jaipur, Rajasthan and Delhi (India), Person with Locomotor Disability [Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita]

Visual/Image Description [Alt Text]: The Sangyan’s Ulgulan Talks! Postcard — Kavya Mukhija from Jaipur, Rajasthan and Delhi (India), Person with Locomotor Disability [Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita]

8. Meenakshi Venkataraman from The Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu (India), Person with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, Autonomic Dysfunction, and Multiple System Atrophy (MSA)

Visual/Image Description [Alt Text]: The Sangyan’s Ulgulan Talks! Postcard — Meenakshi Venkataraman from The Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu (India), Person with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, Autonomic Dysfunction, and Multiple System Atrophy (MSA)

9. Giridhar NV from Bengaluru, Karnataka (India), Person with Blindness (Optic Nerve Atrophy)

Visual/Image Description [Alt Text]: The Sangyan’s Ulgulan Talks! Postcard — Giridhar NV from Bengaluru, Karnataka (India), Person with Blindness (Optic Nerve Atrophy)

10. Kumar Mahavir from Deoghar, Jharkhand (India), Person with Locomotor Disability (Hemiplegia)

Visual/Image Description [Alt Text]: The Sangyan’s Ulgulan Talks! Postcard — Kumar Mahavir from Deoghar, Jharkhand (India), Person with Locomotor Disability (Hemiplegia)

11. Alice Abraham from Thrissur, Kerala (India) and Person with Visual Impairment (Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis)

Visual/Image Description [Alt Text]: The Sangyan’s Ulgulan Talks! Postcard — Alice Abraham from Thrissur, Kerala (India) and Person with Visual Impairment (Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis)

12. Praful Baweja from Mumbai, Maharashtra (India); and Person with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Visual/Image Description [Alt Text]: Praful Baweja from Mumbai, Maharashtra (India); and a Person with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Prepared by

Adv. Abhishek Kumar, NCPEDP-Javed Abidi Fellow on Disability

Curator, The Sangyan — Ulgulan Talks!

Curator, Build Forward Better and United In Action Campaign

The author can be reached at abhishek.ncpedp@gmail.com

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