One thing is clear after watching all these videos, when people take control of their land, their communities start prospering.

@knottytoob

8 ай бұрын

Si senor! Au contraire nothin rusty, dusty or crusty 'bout your comment.

@starrmont4981

8 ай бұрын

Nah fam, that's socialism. Can't have that. /s

@wildfoodsaregood

8 ай бұрын

yeah cz the govt destroyed agriculture intentionally.....fuck hybrid crops which take more water and have a weak immune system

@kovaikulangalpadhukappuama8535

8 ай бұрын

❤

@jaysmith6969

7 ай бұрын

I love coimbatore.. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Andrew spends so much time in India that he started nodding in the same way as locals! Thanks for video!

Given all the terrible things happening in the world right now, it was so wonderful to see human beings doing something so amazing and positive. The fact that I live in Tamil Nadu , where this video was shot, was icing on the cake! 😊

@wildfoodsaregood

8 ай бұрын

Tamil nadu is heavenly except chennai which is a hellhole I wish i could learn tamil cz it's a great language but too difficult

@mamaajay

7 ай бұрын

Wonderful transformation!❤❤

@ArunKumar_Is_Me

7 ай бұрын

​@@wildfoodsaregoodwhy did you feel like that?😅

@4ray

7 ай бұрын

And I live in Oregon and was born in Coimbatore 😊

@HOG1070

2 ай бұрын

Absolutely it's so heart warming. Very positive video. I did watch a few, and that felt really good.

It's amazing how quickly everything improved and that they started through volunteers and no funding.

@Flickifi

7 ай бұрын

...with the added benefit that it brings people and communities together.

I believe that a true Indian revivalism must be to restore all the pre-Colonials infrastructure that existed!

@puraLusa

6 ай бұрын

U don't need to be a true of fake indian (whatever that is) to see the benefit or restauring these infrastructures 😂

@SahilSura-yq4ds

3 ай бұрын

Not precolonial u could say pre Islamic as the muslim invaders destroyed a lot more than the British

In karnataka many politicians spreading rumors that all the Cauvery waters which was sent to TN was directly went to the sea, but they do not know these huge water management systems in these areas.

@mohanm6447

7 ай бұрын

Have a look on his previous video to know the Cauvery Delta region and the water management.

@Drugvigil

7 ай бұрын

❤

@silvarajoomuniandy4316

6 ай бұрын

Carnataka will run dry soon by some earth movement.

3 ай бұрын

so lazy, greedy, entitled politiicians who are too dumb to ask for an engineering report to study the system so they can implement a policy to do THEIR DUTY. why help the local citizens when they can steal tax money and live a lavish lifestyle.

@prasvasu4217

2 ай бұрын

Thesr were built by Chola raja, not Stalin Comerade.

As a Tamilian, it is very emotional video😭. I hope this organisation get support and continue to thrive❣❣

It's amazing how ancient cultures had water management figured out. Uncovering these systems, reviving & sharing knowledge is a vital cog in dealing with climate chamge.

@sutapasbhattacharya9471

7 ай бұрын

India's first civilization, the Saraswati-Indus (aka Harappan) from 5,000 years ago had amazing water management systems if you look it up on YT. I briefly mentioned these far less ancient South Indian irrigation systems (see below) in my 2015 work on the synthesis of science and spirituality - which shows how ancient Indian knowledge of metaphysics (Vedanta-Tantra) is going to form the basis of the new Post-Materialist Science based on the Primacy of Consciousness [as many US scientists who have studied Consciousness-related phenomena and UAP etc. In fact eco-philosophers are beginning understand the need to reverse the false despiritualization by abstraction of Nature by modern Western science - which led to today's false Materialism - through its Christian and Galilean myths. "Indian Christian proselytizer (linked to US and UK Evangelist groups) Vishal Mangalwadi regurgitates the self-justifying lies invented by the British colonial parasites that, due to Hindu superstitions, India had been mired in abject poverty for millennia, before the altruistic British Christians came to the rescue. For instance, Mangalwadi makes out that Indians did not know how to build irrigation canals before the British came when in fact, one of Mangalwadi’s Evangelist heroes, Charles Trevelyan, had written of the remarkable ancient irrigation schemes of the Hindus still functioning in South India. British invasions of Indian states, followed by the British looting Indian treasuries, deindustrialization and creation of famines by ‘bloodsucking’ the peasantry had led to many of the old schemes falling into ruin. Mangalwadi even writes: The Herculean efforts to free India from her poverty were Christian efforts,... ...Philip Mason’s popular book, The Men Who Ruled India, identifies that [Christian Evangelist] Sir Richard Temple ... as a man of tremendous vision and ceaseless action,... In fact Richard Temple, acting for Benjamin Disraeli’s hand-picked henchman Viceroy Lytton, forced Indian victims of the 1877 famine inflicted upon them by British ‘Let-them-starve’ policies, to travel for miles to do hard labour for smaller rations (including flour diluted with dirt) than Nazis gave to their Death Camp inmates in Buchenwald (not all Nazi Death Camps used gas chambers). As a conquered nation, India must pay tribute, stated Disraeli whilst he Marquis of Salisbury, India Secretary in 1875 had written that “India must be bled”. The British covered-up the 94% mortality rates in such ‘Death Camps’. Simultaneously, Disraeli’s regime forced India to export record amounts of foodgrains to provide British and other Europeans with cheap food. In 1877, whilst millions of Indians starved, Lytton, organised the biggest feast in human history in Delhi to celebrate Disraeli’s gesture of giving Victoria Saxe-Coburg the grand title ‘Empress of India’. "

It's great to see that young guy who established the NGO. He is pure farmer and he was very humble in whole video . May be he might speak only Tamil . But I would love to see his work being recognized and receive national awards

@amillison

6 ай бұрын

He actually has received a prestigious national award from the government for him s excellent work

Tamilnadu had about 45000 connected water bodies. Each village had 2 water bodies one to receive water and to collect over flow. Over flow of one village is receiver for next village. All these water bodied were maintained by local people till Britishers came. Then degradation happened. Niw only locals are taking interest and restoring the water bodies. Tamil has about 40 words to denote water bodies.

@GowthamV07

8 ай бұрын

Also our governement only know how to occopy water body land and sell it as real estate.

@Nomad97249

8 ай бұрын

I have seen water bodies in villages upto year 2000 But beyond which development kicked in

@007vissa

8 ай бұрын

What about the pollution, plastic trash and pesticide run off from all that farms thats going into these lakes? Now that they are all getting connected, contamination in one lake will reach others as well. In chola times everything was organic and there was no industrial or plastic pollution

@lamdao1242

8 ай бұрын

I think the British colonists didn’t help India But you cannot blame the British for: (1) the plastic and other trash that made its way to the ponds and lakes in the last 5 decades (2) the way manufacturers build their factories with Zero regard for the environment and dumping of their waste produces (3) the corruption in the Indian civil service and political class which enables bad laws to be promulgated and allows bad behaviour to be ignored without any consequences because - bribes and corruption!

@pikachue602

7 ай бұрын

​@@lamdao1242 j agree with all your points but .....mmm ... The thing Brits Raj started is being given a furnishing by present day civil bodies and us civilians our selves.. For eg.. In ahom dynasty, the sworgonarayon chakradha singh DEO started paik system where every glass be it merchants,scholars,soldiers, aristocrats,priests,pilgrims etc. Must give 2-3 year service in army and 5 year in maintaining the wetlands near the bramhaputro river as it is a very high current aggressive one it has been continuously engulfing the river banks increasing its water territory , and other process were dams from present day odisha ie. Kalinga kingdom ... Other techniques from Viet ,Thai,burmese nations as they were closes to them and have the similar geography.. and it was a success but after the Brits crown's arrival things changed now the river has gone to its extreme and rapidly eating the banks... Ahoms were once the rulers of river and had quite a good maritime warfare skills through which they kept the nawabs of Bengal and mughal dynasty away..

You could make posters of your artwork Andrew, sell them through your videos. They are so beautiful I almost cry when you erase them..😢 love your videos!

I am from kerala, I truly happy to see my brother (thamil makkal) making so much prosperity and enjoying their lives great achievement we need to follow you on many things

It’s amazing how the ancients built those magnificent infrastructure manually!

I'm so inspired, I'm in tears. Thank you for sharing this amazing work with us, Andrew. 👏🏽

So cool to see people wake up to the real wealth.

Coimbatore people have a sense of community. Have heard about these groups like Thulir for the last 5 years. Long live these groups. We miss enthusiastic people like them in Chennai - huge lakes have been turned into dump yards and encroached by property developers. Chennai is hopeless . But still there is hope & time for coimbatore- don’t make or allow the same mistake of mindless urbanisation.

All the volunteers are SUPER HEROES! Respect and admiration from Nagaland.

I was tearing up in the end sharing gifts ..makes me so happy .. people doing good for earth no $$$ gains but huge emotional and satisfaction gains .. love this

Proud of KKPA volunteers team.

Cholas were great administrators and visionaries.

Just awesome! Love that all these places in India are being rebuilt by the whole community in the area.

Absolutely amazing. I remember some decades ago horrifying dystopian articles about how India had very little water left in its aquifers, and the coming devastation. At the time, it seemed like recharging the aquifers wasn't a possibility.

Thank you so much for this wonderful series. I have 40 acres in the Mojave desert where I'm starting a food forest.

@Val-fi9hg

8 ай бұрын

Me too but only on a heavy half acre at 4300 feet. Figuring out which trees , plants work best for my area. Even my tiny swales have kept water on the property during monsoon .

@alphathealphiliate

3 ай бұрын

I’m envious I want to build a naturally self-sustaining homestead one day

❤ Proud of kkpa volunteers team . Thank you very much for compiling and documenting it.

Incredible! Same is being done in Salem too! They have revived two lakes using volunteers and charitable donations! The change is incredible! This should be replicated around the world! For a green blue beautiful world!!

ooh. my geography text books didn't speak about it. whenever i saw it on the map, i thought that it was natural delta. people spoke to me about the water management in Netherlands, but didn't tell the greatness of my country which has withstood the test of time without harming the nature. feel proud and sad at the same time...

@aadithyasangani717

7 ай бұрын

your geography didn't taught you because the king was Hindu,what ever great things done by Hindus were not taught in Indian text books ,it because indian first educational minister was a Moulana ,we studied only about invaders as they are great

@aleks-lj9yq

2 ай бұрын

@@aadithyasangani717Or because it's a geography text book and not history.

Another heartwarming episode. And loved the gifts at the end - so cool that the beaver is your mascot. I live in the UK where over the last 3-5 years we've started having beaver trials to reintroduce them after missing them for 400 years. Keep up the fantastic work

Tamil Nadu is really blessed with having large swaths of lands. Here in their neighbouring tiny state, the biggest and a very unusual threat to water bodies that recharge groundwater is real estate; the high popualtion density and urbanization in this tiny state is causing so much land encorachment on banks or rivers, backwaters and lakes. The only saving grace is the restoration and preservation of traditional ponds. A requirement to teach school kids swimming has somehow gave an insentive to maintain these ponds in a highly urbanized non-farming communities

@Anon13100

2 ай бұрын

Tamil Nadu also lost large swaths of land to neighbouring states when states were reorganized. Tamils always have high regards and fondness for the people of Kerala, the Chera part of ancient Thamizhagam. Kerala is truly God's own country and Malayalis' pride for their land, language, and culture will surely help overcome the threat you have highlighted.

All this good things happened 1000 year's ago.. and now we are struggling to learn and repeat

@GowthamV07

8 ай бұрын

Colonial mindset right from our education system, We are taught that british and mughals were the ones who taught india civilization.

Andrew your art work is unbelievably beautiful ....

Memories of my youth as a student in the wonderful city that is Kovai, coimbatore came flooding back. Will visit soon to see for myself this magical transformation.🎉

Thank you for these videos. They were part of the inspiration for our lake in Thailand.

This video was very sweet, love to see someone learning so intently from other cultures in earnest and straight from the source. Also always happy to see my home region of Tamil Nadu!

Gods work Andrew in highlighting real champs who take up massive human coordination problems without any major personal incentives.

Incredible work by Mr Manikandan and his team, this itself deserves a national award of somekind and idea must disseminate through all beautocrats in their jurisdiction to rejuvenate local water bodies.

Bravo,as an Indian I feel so proud and happy to see people taking responsibility for their actions which destroy the environment,and are doing good things like planting trees,cleaning up all the garbage that cause pollution to the rivers.God bless them.If more people did this,we could clean up our country.

Another inspiring video. Thank you all very much.

Thanks to best ruler CHOLAS... and salute to volunteers

Absolutely inspiring stuff

Feel so proud of the prospering community culture in Tamil Nadu, all of India should learn and work to adopt a sustainable lifestyle.

I was lucky enough to spend 2 weeks in Chennai and Coimbatore during that drought. WONDERFUL city, wonderful people. Unable to travel much as I was working in IT and in "conferences" all the time... TOTALLY unaware of these lakes and their impact. Would love to get back and travel/visit again.

Water is an essential resource for any living organism on this earth. Ancient people clearly recognized this. But, people in so-called modern society are not much interested in it due to various reasons. It is a privilege to have a team like Kovai Kulangal Padukappu Amaippu. But, it is not only an individual or group job. Everyone should participate. Hopefully this will inspire more, many people will come forward and many lakes or ponds will be restored in the future.

A new age of agriculture is emerging . The permaculture age has begun . i remember this kind of stuff was fiction at one point and now you cant go anywere and talk about agriculture without paying homage to permaculture . love&peace

Yes, honking is needed! "Horn OK Please" amused me on the back of trucks in Gujarat and Rajasthan. P.s., I'm enjoying this series of videos... thank you.

Nice to see something positive for a change. Thank you India.

Thank you Andrew for highlighting this amazing work in India. So many incredible recent and decades as well as centuries old water harvesting. Its amazing to see the short time frame of these projects transforming everyday peoples lives. Appreciate this encouragement from all the projects we've seenin through houror lens.

Very admirable work

How wonderful for those communities to restore the systems and practices their ancestors had put in place. Thanks for the story, gives me hope. 😊

Wonderfully presented and beautiful places visited

bar-none, hands down, this is my favorite channel. thank you for your amazing work

This is beautiful work, both narratively and the history of the Cholas and the descendants themselves. Restauring a way of life completely. Loved the endscene.

Amazing and inspiring! I love these stories from India! And it's true about the honking!

Thank U guys for being professional role model for everyone else.

It feels so good to see such impactful work. I breathe a sigh of relief when I watch these videos.

Beautifull. I wish everybody apply this philosophy on the world.

That was very sweet of them to include a gift for your wife!

Mr. Millison, you have really acquired an aura of a sithar (saint) with your exemplary dedication to permaculture and ecology. Thank you for your service.

Glad the works of siruthuli is spreading out. They habe done awesome work towards improving the waterbodies creating new ones and enhancing green cover in and around coimbatore with dense forests. 😍

Rainwater harvesting I am doing it from past 10 years in namma Bengaluru

What I see is lots of people involved working with, and improving their watershed, and paying homage to past visionary's. You can fix the world by everyone working to help their own watershed not just for people but by incorporating, and Shepherding the land, and habitat systems for diverse nature. Human Beavers being a keystone species once the respect comes back.

Good work by the team of volunteers in restoring the ancient flow of water. Hope this learning is shared with the governments of india and the southern states thereby reducing the fights for the cauvery between the different states.

The ROI on such projects like this must be huge. Can you imagine how many generations of people will be positively impacted by this work? Truly, as long as we improve our ideas and our execution, and we get the right people together in a room - or on a call - together, we can do anything.

it is so heartening to see the amazing grassroot revolution in permaculture happening in India, I am indebted to you Andrew for bringing this to the attention of the world many many thanks

Andrew is great human being..love from India ❤

Excellent restoration work; very inspiring.

Thanks for sharing!!!

@amillison

8 ай бұрын

Thanks Jon. I appreciate it 🙏🙏🙏

Hey Andrew, Can you make videos on Kakatiya dynasty rules do for Telangana State region. They also made similar kind of structures in Godavari and Krishna rivers!

Amazing what humans can achieve together. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Coimbatore is a paradise ❤😊

🙏JAI INDIA JAI BHARATAM 🙏

This is so inspiring! ❤❤❤So wonderful to see people helping Mother nature ❤❤❤

So instead of marching, protesting, and causing difficulties for others these people took matters into their own hands.

Wow, 30,000 volunteers, good people. Good to see the restoration and desilting activity which is the duty of Govt, but busy with politics and corruption. Great video to watch among war torn nations.

Good to see you upload!

they are amazing 30000 volunteers

Cholas longest ruling kingdom in the world more than 1500 years 🐅🐅🐅

@akapbhan

7 ай бұрын

That's not directly true. The longest ruling dynasty were pandyas as they manage to outlive Chola dynasty by another 400 years. Also there's the whole Kalabara period where the three dynasties and Ay kingdom was subjugated and fell out of power.

@johnbanach3875

7 ай бұрын

How little Westerners know about the history of the Indian subcontinent! Most probably believe that the British Empire brought civilization to India.@@akapbhan

@akapbhan

7 ай бұрын

@@johnbanach3875 What does this have anything to do with my reply?

This is a great movement towards self realization and understanding of nature and conservation

Watching your videos always makes my day:)

Congratulations to the smart thinking hard working people combining to achieve such worthy goals. I hope the entire project gets completed for widespread benefit.

Feel good to see this kind of initiative ❤ more people should follow this

We need more projects and more communities working together like this! Amazing! ❤

மணிகன்டன் respect bro❤❤

Thank you for the heart warming video

You people have done a great job 👍👍 Hatt's off to you all who've given their contribution 🙏🙏

You are a magnificent inspiration

Amazing team work, Hats off to to the team.

Yet again an amazing video: I hope this channel gets yet way more famous so it can reach the decision makers of even more communities! This channel really shows the potential of social media in creating a common knowledge base that can inspire positive change! Also it’s so nice to see innovation throughout very different countries

Very inspiring, I would definitely want to join one of these organization

thank you Andrew for making this video and many more you share, I just love watching them , all the people in your videos look so happy

What a fantastic story. It benefits every one and every thing.

Great work done ❤

India is the true definition of a functional community!

Great work.. Thanks for the beautiful and informative video.

I was a great fan of Clarkson Farming series in UK but this is awesome, unbelievable, pure will power, perseverance and commitment to Mother nature. I salute you guys. Will find and great job.

What a wonderful work Andrew... Your great hardwork appreciated..keep on finding out the special amazing works ...thank you very much. ❤❤🎉🎉🎉

Great video. Love it. Love India

Thank you, Andrew! You and OSU are doing great work!

It's videos like these that help restore my faith in humanity. Thank you for all you & others are doing to bring back this beautiful planet to it's original splendor. Love & blessings to you & all. Liliane

Great work by the team.. Excellent video for greater understanding.. appreciation to all the volunteers who have contributed for the betterment of the works.. kudos to the NGO.. Many more NGOs are working on the same such projects.. kovai is blessed with socially responsible NGOs and more volunteers.

The funny part is that you see this same thing happening all around the world. Folks turn their backs on their heritage and culture because they listened to the snakes in the grass promising something newer/shinier/better, and in no time at all.... the knowledge that kept things going relatively smoothly is lost. Then generations have to suffer for it. You see exactly this happening in Europe right now as they scramble to rebuild their hedgerows after they tore them out in the 50's. Only now, after decades of loss, are they seeing the damage done due to erosion and habitat loss. But, if you had tried to explain to them back then, they'd have fought you tooth and nail because their eyes were filled with the promised splendor just around the bend. It's always a promised splendor that never seems to show up, but the pain sure does. And that's just one example.