It was time to do something different. It was theatre time at Disha Foundation. Rahul Dey, one of the volunteers at PeaceWorks had planned to do a play with these children based on ‘ The King and the Little Man’ by K. G Subramanyan. The children showed a lot of excitement to do the play…
Why do we write? Stories, poems or plays? Rohan Haldar, a student at Kailash Vidyamandir once told me that he writes so that children will start taking an interest in the world of literature. This coming from a boy who studies in middle school. And that in the world of stories there is happiness to…
I was very nervous about my first day at Hamari Muskaan but as I entered the room I heard a loud ‘Gooood Morningg Diidii’. These children come every Saturday to St Joseph’s school accompanied by their mothers to listen to Divya and Shelly, two volunteers in the Share Stories Open Minds program, tell stories. Today…
DAY 1 When I arrived at the Harrington Art Centre on the morning of 30th July 2015, I was convinced that my phone had conspired to make me arrive late—it was stubbornly declaring the time to be 8.30 when I could clearly see that seats had already been occupied for the conference that was supposed…
Panel 1: Historical Interpretation – Dr Vishwamohan Jha, Dr Mubarak Ali, Dr Ayaz Naseem, Shreya Ghosh – moderated by Dr Garga Chatterjee The discussion on history as a product of contemporary ideology across nations with a common past, chaired by Dr Garga Choudhury started promptly at 10 a.m. and despite a few technological glitches, an…
