Before “organic” or saatvik became a global trend, before wellness turned into a billion-dollar industry, India already had the most advanced nutritionists – Our Farmers. For generations, they preserved biodiversity in every seed. They protected heritage in every gain. They ensured health in every meal long before health apps and calorie counters ever existed.

This Kisaan Diwas, India honours the real guardians of our food heritage and immune intelligence. And Ahmedabad celebrates them with one of the most influential and admired food movements in the country, Sattvik – A Festival Where Tradition Nourishes The Future.

A Legacy of Wellness Since 2004

Initiated at IIM Ahmedabad in 2004, Sattvik is India’s first and longest-running celebration of forgotten indigenous superfoods, rural innovation, and farmer entrepreneurship. In its 15+ years of journey, Sattvik has transformed from a cultural event to a national movement for food diversity and farmer prosperity.

This year, the festival is going to happen from December 27th to 31st, Location: Sola Bhagwat Vidyapith, Ahmedabad. The festival returns on a grand scale:

• 400 Traditional Dishes 
• 60 Rural Stalls

What Fed Our Roots Must Feed Our Future

If the dish is easily found in city hotels, it doesn’t belong at Sattvik. Every recipe here is rare, fading, and facing a real risk of extinction. But this festival ensures traditions don’t vanish just because cities forget them.

Farmers and rural women groups will prepare authentic meals using:

• Neglected Millets (Shree Anna)
• Wild and Uncultivated Greens
• Medicinal Forest Plants
• Low-Input, High-Nutrition  Crops

These foods naturally carry:

• Nutraceutical Power
• Metabolic wellness
• Immunity-strengthening properties
• Traditional medicinal value 
• No processing, No preservatives, No compromises.  

When Cities Forgot, Farmers Protected India’s Nutrition

In today’s India, a strange paradox stands tall: cities are wealthy in wallets but starving for real nutrition. Packaged foods shine on shelves, but ancestral nutrition is missing from plates. Meanwhile, in villages often called “poor”, wealth grows quietly in the soil – heritage seeds, diverse crops, and time-tested nourishment.

This is where Sattvik becomes more than a festival; it becomes a bridge back home. A stage where urban India returns to its roots, and farmers become professors of wellness, teaching what science is only now rediscovering.

Sristi Innovation Organisation – Purpose Behind Every Plate

Sattvik is organised by ‘Sristi Innovation’ with a mission to:

• Conserve agro-biodiversity
• Promote diverse healthy food systems
• Encourage sustainable, mindful living 
• Support direct farmer-to-consumer trade 
• Showcase grassroots innovations
• Empower rural farmers’ income opportunities 

When farmers earn more through knowledge, rural prosperity becomes permanent.

A festival of Culture, Innovation & Skill

Along with food, visitors will experience:

• Traditional craft & pottery
• Folk dances and musical performances
• Live storytelling & literary sessions
• Farmers Haat – organic & eco-friendly products
• Grassroots innovation exhibition by:

• National Innovation Foundation
• GIAN
• SIIE-Bionest incubator

• Creativity zones for children
• Seed exchange to boost biodiversity 
• SRISTI publication stall
• Celebrating centenarian farmers and their wisdom

Every corner encourages learning, pride, and creativity.

Saving Dying Flavours, Reviving Lost Crops, Protecting Food Sovereignty

Many of the crops featured at Sattvik are at the edge of extinction. Urban diets replaced them with polished grains and processed foods. But villages preserved them quietly, waiting for the world to return. Here, every forgotten grain is treated like heritage art. Every wild plant is celebrated as nature’s original medicine.

Every recipe is a living archive of rural India’s culinary wisdom. When a visitor tastes a disappearing millet, demand awakens. By awakened demand, farmers cultivate it again. And when cultivation revives, biodiversity is saved. This is how a festival becomes a conservation movement. This is how food becomes a national asset again.

See Sattvik’s food and culture in this video: 

Why Sattvik Matters for Kisaan Diwas and for India’s Future?

Kisaan Diwas celebrates the backbone of our nation, the farmer. Sattvik amplifies this spirit by placing. Farmers at the centre. Not as suppliers, not as labourers, but as knowledge keepers and nutritional scientists of India 

For decades, farmers have protected seeds, soils, and seasonality. They preserved crops that the world is now calling “superfoods.” They safeguarded wellness before wellness became a trend. Sattvik honours this intelligence with a platform worthy of it. It tells India that true progress grows from the ground up. And that our future health depends on our farmers’ past wisdom.

Sattvik Is More Than a Food Fest, It’s a Movement Rebuilding India’s Food Identity.

What started at IIM Ahmedabad has now become a national inspiration. A movement that blends health, heritage, science, and sustainability. A celebration where innovators, farmers, and consumers meet as equals.

Sattvik strengthens rural economies with real opportunities. It strengthens urban lives with real nutrition. It strengthens India with real biodiversity. This is not nostalgia, this is futuristic rural leadership. Not an event; this is India’s food revolution. A cultural responsibility and not just a celebration. 

Conclusion

Sattvik transforms Ahmedabad into India’s hub for traditional superfoods and rural innovation. It boosts farmer income directly, revives rare crops sustainably, and reconnects urban India with authentic ancestral nutrition. This festival strengthens agro-biodiversity, raises demand for millets, and builds a healthier nation. As Kisaan Diwas arrives, Sattvik stands as India’s most impactful food heritage movement.

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