What a way to start the day! Twenty-six children from Kailash Vidyamandir, Anandan, Women’s Interlink Foundation (Kalighat Burning Ghat centre) and Birla High School for Boys celebrated ‘One Nation Reading Together’, along with Ken Spillman and Scholastic on 24 November 2016. Held at The Seagull Foundation for the Arts, the morning saw poems being recited…
In an increasingly polarized world where extremism and hatred seem to be on the rise globally, public debate seems to be driven more by emotions than facts often leading to curtailed opinion making. Media/social media often add fuel to the fire. In our education system there is little room for any discourse outside of the…
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME PLAN 10,11,12 November 2016 Venue: The Harrington Streets Arts Centre ‘a nationalist discourse in a time when there is no longer a national liberation struggle against an external power, and oppression where it exists has become internal.’—Perry Anderson Day 1 (10 November) The Idea of Nationalism Keynote Address by Sadanand Menon [9.15 a.m.-10.30…
On 29 September, Meher Ali, a Fulbright scholar from Brown University conducted a session on ‘Understanding 1971’ with 17 high school students from Modern High School for Girls and Lakshmipat Singhania Academy. This was the first talk for students as a part of the History for Peace project. Using various audio visual aids, including a trailer…
‘Since I have to go to my village to sell my land along with my wife, please sanction me one-week leave.’ A joke. Perhaps circulated on social media. ‘Lolz’ The reply to the joke. Language is a complicated topic. Not the study of language, but the use and the baggage that come with the use. In…
