Interview of Bablu in Development Nation

Out of the world
Choitresh Kumar Ganguly also known as Babloo Ganguly an Ashoka Fellow is a motivational force for many people on how to carry out environment protection and regeneration of degraded, drought-ridden lands in Andhra Pradesh. He has successfully rebuilt an agro-forest habitat on a 32-acre piece of land situated in one of the worst drought affected districts in India. It all started took it over in 1991. Today Timbaktu Collective is a registered NGO situated in Chennekothapalli, Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh. His working team has formed an alternative living style based on sustainability of the eco-system deep inside the forest near to Chennekothapalli. Today both Babloo and his wife Mary Vattamattam inspire several people for their hard work and simple living. 
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Rajni Bakshi in ‘India Together’

Timbaktu Organic is scaling up
"If enough diversity is lost, the ability of crops to adapt and evolve will have been destroyed. We will not have to wait for the last wheat plant to shrivel up and die before wheat can be considered extinct. It will become extinct when it loses the ability to evolve and when neither its genetic defenses nor our chemicals are able to protect it. And that day might come quietly even as millions of acres of wheat blanket the earth."
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The Week - Couple of the Year 2005

Mary & Bablu Couple of the Year
They have created a new way of living in a dry and dusty region

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Article on Timbaktu in ‘Good News India’

No stops anywhere, after Gandhi
Every morning this was the question from their three small children, resentful at being left alone for another long spell of 14 hours: "Where are you going?" The parents, Mary Vattamattam and Choitresh Kumar Ganguly ["Bablu"] found it equally hard to leave—or, truthfully name the places their work took them to. The children wouldn't have coped with names like Chennakothapalli, Mushtikovila or Shyapuram. So they took to saying: "We are off to Timbaktu!"
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Suresh Krishnamurthy in ‘The Hindu’

Paradise on earth...
WHEN I had forwarded my leave application for a holiday in Timbaktu, my boss and colleagues thought I had gone bonkers. The word `Timbaktu' means Sarihaddu Rekha, which in Telugu stands for the place where the earth meets the sky.
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