The teacher-training workshop at Delhi Public School, Nashik was held on 16 December 2017. The participants came from diverse backgrounds and schools—we had teachers from primary classes, teachers from Maharashtra State board schools, Science, Social Science, English and Art teachers. We began the workshop with a brief introduction to the Anne Frank project followed by…
A queue outside the Seagull Foundation for the Arts on a Sunday morning is a rare event. The event in question and so worth queuing up for was the Open House with eminent historian Romila Thapar. Professor Thapar had engaged on the topic of the idea of India in a conversation with Professor Gayatri Chakravorty…
It is always interesting meeting educators from different schools and across subjects and it becomes even more so when one is meeting them to talk about human rights and the Anne Frank story. The teacher-training workshop on the Peaceworks Human Rights Defenders Module was held for 20 educators from the Delhi-NCR region on Tuesday, 28…
Anne Frank—A History for Today, a travelling exhibition for schools was set up at the Shiv Nadar School, Noida on Monday 27 November 2017. We began the peer guide training with a brief round of introductions followed by a discussion on Anne Frank, the Diary and the Holocaust. Most of the students—from grades 8 and…
Every year, Golpo Mela—the PeaceWorks Storytelling Festival is celebrated in a way that is slightly different from the previous one. This year turned out to be a landmark one, because Golpo Mela was celebrated twice and in completely different ways. We began the year with showcasing storytelling through films and we ended the year with…
