About Us

Located on a 13 acre chikoo farm in a sleepy tribal hamlet in Dahanu on the west coast of India, Maharashtra, Tamarind Tree is an initiative towards a critical analysis of our current milieu with the aim of mobilizing for change.  Founded in 2007, as a non profit organisation, we are committed to building an equitable and just society where individuals and communities can realise their full potential.  We situate ourselves at the juncture of knowledge, media and technology with the belief that they play a significant role in overcoming social exclusion and a lack of voice that are the root problems of poverty. Re-appropriating knowledge and technology for the use by marginalized communities is a tool to enable us to re-think and transform our social relations. Tamarind Tree through its various ideas and projects has been attempting to demonstrate positive alternatives by re-appropriating knowledge and technology for and with communities. While Tamarind Tree started with the need to get away from the almost inhuman and routine like existence of large cities. we initiated living here in Sogve village, not just with a “back to the land” philosophy but also with the motivation of learning, living with and contributing to rural society, besides farming.  Working with the marginalised tribes, our mission is towards an ecologically sustainable and culturally sensitive future for tribal communities of Thane district of the Western Indian state of Maharashtra.Tamarind Tree works in the areas of education, community media and environmental protection.