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Bakul Foundation, 16, Satyanagar, Bhubanes (2026)

We are an ever growing group of people like you,who believe that real change can happen when we become the change we want in the world. We believe if we all come together with our small energies and little contributions,we can bring about the change we want in underdeveloped, poverty, injustice and environmental destruction around us. We are the students, retired persons, home makers,working professionals and we are spread out all across the world. Every day more people join our movement.

03/08/2026

Friendship Day took on a whole new meaning when Spider-Man met his best friend Dedi Loku, the Green Superhero! 🌳🕷️

After watching Spider-Man: Brand New Day, hundreds of children and families at Utkal Galleria Mall discovered that the greatest superheroes don’t just save cities—they help the Earth breathe.

Together, Spider-Man and Dedi Loku invited everyone to join the My Tree Campaign and become part of the Dedi Loku Club, because climate action begins with a simple relationship—with a tree.

🌱 Plant a tree.
💚 Protect a tree.
🤝 Gift a tree.
🌍 Let’s make the My Tree Campaign a people’s movement.

After all, every superhero needs a best friend. And every tree needs one too.

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01/08/2026

SHEETAL AUR PEEPAL:
A TREE TALE OF FRIENDSHIP

This tree was one of the reasons I chose this home. In a landscape otherwise filled with concrete, it is a soothing sight for tired eyes. Over the years, I have watched it through every season of its life. I have seen it shed every leaf after winter, leaving behind a single stubborn leaf swaying from its bare branches. And then, like a phoenix, I have watched it come alive again—tiny green buds unfurling into a lush canopy, full of life once more.

Most days, I sit by my balcony with a cup of tea, working to the gentle rustle of its leaves. There is a quiet comfort in its presence that words can barely capture. When the rains come and the winds grow stronger, it sways as though dancing to a secret melody only Mother Earth can hear.

Even when I am away for weeks, friends and neighbours send me updates about how “my tree” is slowly blooming, because they know how often I speak about it. Somewhere along the way, it stopped being just a tree and became an inseparable part of my life.

I only wish there were a way to tell it how much it means to me.

This was Sheetal’s Tree Tale. You can also share yours and send a collab to Bakul or tag us and use the following hashtags.

28/07/2026

The Book Bike has been doing the rounds of different slums on a regular basis in which many new volunteers are joining hands. It is a little car festival in itself with the volunteers pulling the book bike into the slums.

Inspired by the Rath Yatra of Lord Shri Jagannath in which Mahaprabhu comes out for the devotees can see Him, our Book Bike goes to communities, where children, who do not come to the Library, get to see the books. And the attempt is to get them interested to come to the main library nearby.

The attempt is to get them to fall in love with books, and with learning itself beyond just preparing for exams.

23/07/2026

We had a very interesting talk by Mr Khirod Patnaik on growing up in Jagamara along with his sibling, older by 7 years, the city of Bhubaneswar in the last Ekamra Talkies, the storytelling series on the city organized by Bakul Foundation and Café 16 Satyanagar. This was a continuation of the section on localities, in which we had listened to stories about Punjabi Colony and Bindusagar area already.

He talked about life in Jagamara, which was a village and surprisingly for all of us, he said that for him, the village really merged with the city only in 2015 when there was a new road connecting the City Women’s College to the Khandagiri Pokhariput road.

He talked about cultural life in the village, which extended from the Khandagiri Hills to Pokhariput and was inhabited by a lot of wildlife, which is why Nandan Kanan zoo first started there, but shifted to the area adjacent to Kanjia lake, its current location for water availability.

The story of how the first toilet came in their house after his brother got married, and the story of 1000 villagers gathering around the new bicycle purchased by his grandfather in the 1940s was very interesting to hear as was the story of how they could walk down to the aircrafts earlier in the absence of a airport boundary on the southern side.

The storytelling was further enlivened by his wife, Snigdha Patnaik’s sharing of her experience of discovering Jagamara in the 1980s after marriage.

15/07/2026

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Who owns the past? And who gets to tell its story?

These questions sparked a fascinating conversation at the Book Launch of Who Owns the Past? by historian Shaan Kashyap at the Bakul Library on 6th June. The evening brought together readers, students, historians and curious minds to reflect on how history is written, interpreted and debated.

Shaan talked about the main reason for writing the book, the the divide between professional historians and the new breed of historians, who are not professional historians located in University History Departments but writing engaging and insightful histories. He talked about the mutual scepticism about each other leading him to the provocative question, “Who Owns the past?”.

Prof Priyadarshi Kar of Ravenshaw University talked about the need now to understand the history, by understanding the historian, which is where Shaan’s work becomes very interesting.

There was a very engaging discussion that went on for ever in which many issues about history writing were discussed from how every work of history is first judged on its ideological leanings to the textbook controversies pertaining to history writing.

At Bakul, we believe books are not just meant to be read—they are meant to start conversations.

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