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    Vijayalekshmi and Gopalakrishnan, participated in Nammal Thammil a panel show ‘Sukhaprasavathile chila asukhangal’ on Asianet channel. The discussion was focused on the unnaturally high number of caesarian deliveries conducted at Cherthala Taluk hospital and in general in Kerala. It looks into the social situation that creates a generation of women scared to deliver their babies naturally and a generation of physicians to money and convenience is much above duty and ethics.

    You can watch the episodes on  youtube here.

    Part 1

    Part 2

    Part 3

    Part 4

    Sarang was invited to be part of the World Innovation Summit on Education organised by the Qatar Foundation in Doha. Gautham and Anuradha participated in the 3 day event. Scroll down this page for a video of them made by the WISE 2009 team.

    http://www.wise-qatar.org/en/video-gallery

    Or watch the video on youtube

    Interview – Gautham & Anuradha Sarang

    Media

    C.Sharathchandran, third eye films has been documenting all major events and personalities in the environmental map of India. He has rare footage on Sarang. Watch a film on the Save the Western Ghats March, where six year old Gautham was the youngest marcher. You might be interested in another movie by him, Before Everything Ends

    The All India Radio regularly invites Sarang to present programmes for them. The children have presented plays, music and other innovative programmes. CNN-IBN featured Gopalakrishnan & Vijayalekshmi in their series, Green Heroes. Doordarshan, National Television Channel, made a four episode feature on Sarang. It was broadcast every Saturday as part of Gandhi Darshan programme in April-May, 2009. Doordarshan used the Sarang campus as a site for their series, ‘Ayurvastra’. In May, 2009, TV Globo from Brazil came to interact and shoot Sarang’s activities for their series, Multishow. This will probably be broadcast in October.

    Sarang has been featured in various leading newspapers and magazines like Malayala Manorama, Mathrubhumi, Mangalam, The Week, Frontline, Insurgent, Vanitha, Sree, The Hindu etc.

    Sarang – Symphony in Cacophony a short documentary film directed by Mr. Joshy Joseph and made by Films division of India, won the National Award for the Best Motivational/Promotional Film in 1998.

    A 25 minute documentary in Malayalam named Sarang was prepared by Samandaram, India. The film highlighted Sarang family’s educational experiments.

    Mr. Biju Anand film maker from Calicut, Kerala made, ‘Ore Oraal’, a documentary film focusing on Gautham’s experiences of growing up in the midst of educational experiments and his vision for Sarang.


    In 2009, Sarang was featured in CNN IBN Green heroes series, watch this video on youtube here.

    In 2007, a couple of visitors to the Sarang family living at Chalakkudy then took this short video of the children singing their favorite poem…Thanks for Mr Ajith for recording this and Mr K P Nathan for putting it up on youtube!