Author Archives: PeaceWorks

Becoming the frog-storytelling and creativity

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‘The human race has been telling stories since it began’  – Doris Lessing Everyone has a story of their own but not everyone can tell them. This is what sets storytellers apart from the rest. Storytelling is an art, which is to be expressed with the effect of impressing the listeners. A master storyteller should be…

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Games, Laughter and making New Friends

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I once came across an essay topic, which is very relatable till date, ‘Robots: Future Slaves or Dictators?’  Well, we all are aware of the establishing regime that technology has been creating over the past few years. Gone are those days when kids were the primary source of din in amusement parks or in the…

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Being a Human Rights Defender

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Social exclusion. What is it? What does the term mean? Discussions in the classes on Human Rights at the South City International School often revolved around this. When the school played host to the Anne Frank- A History for Today exhibition, students took part in an activity that drove home the fact that social exclusion…

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Conversations and thoughts- the PeaceWorks Film Programme in schools

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As Martin Scorsese once said, ‘Cinema is a matter of what’s in the frame and what’s out’. Movies are an important part of an audio-visual experience and education. They are full of impact and stir emotions unlike some textbooks, which fail to do so. PeaceWorks takes pride in the fact that it has amassed a plethora…

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Anne Frank- A History for Today at South City International School

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‘Ma’am, exactly what is a peer guide meant to do? Do we just take the guests around the exhibition?’—a slightly hesitant question from a student before we set up the exhibition. The international travelling exhibition ‘ Anne Frank—A History for Today’ was set up at the South City International School, Kolkata, having been to Bangalore,…

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