MAGICTERRAIN Foundation — People, Planet & Purpose Together
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PUBLICATIONS

Ideas, knowledge and stories from the field.

01 · Publishing wing

MTF Mudran

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Our publishing wing.

Books, handbooks, manuals, notebooks, sketch-memoirs and workbooks — written, illustrated and printed from the field. Every title carries an ISBN and stays free to read.

What we publish documents ideas, research, field experience, local knowledge and stories from the communities we work with.

  • Read online
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  • Order hard copies
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  • Cover of the MTF Annapurna handbook
  • Cover of the MTF Jeevika handbook
  • Cover of the Jana-Gyan handbook
  • Cover of The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Indian Tribes, Volume 1
  • Cover of the Vana-Prashikshana handbook
  • Cover of the Vana-Vani handbook

02 · Reporting from the villages

Firefly Times

A community field paper · fireflytimes.in
Two Bonda women winnowing grain in the courtyard of their village home

Success stories, case studies, and village and community reporting — alongside a space given entirely to community children: their writing, their drawings and their account of the places they live in.

Comic panels drawn by children from the communities MTF works withAn artisan seated beside a large hand-painted fish mask she has made
A woman being shown the coffee roasting machine while others look onA trainer demonstrating a paper cup making machine to a group of young men

Reporting that does not wait for an outsider to arrive.

Read Firefly Timesfireflytimes.in

03 · Journal

POCJ Journal

People, Origin, Community Journal · pocj.press

Research. Practice. Open Access.

FrequencyQuarterly
AccessOpen access — free to read and share
ScopeResearch papers, field practice and review from the terrains
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Knowledge should travel.

From the fieldto the pageback to the people