Contemporary History and the Classroom. Workshop by Abeer Gupta There we were, on the afternoon 1st of August, sitting in a cosy circle around Abeer Gupta, Assistant Professor at the School of Design, Ambedkar University, slightly unsure of what to expect of the workshop we were attending. I for one was apprehending a deluge of sophisticated…
‘We don’t know Harry Potter’, was the first reaction I got from the girls at the Child Care Centre in Chingrighata (North Kolkata), when first asked about their views on the boy wizard. This would not do, this would not do at all. So how to introduce these little fertile minds to the world of…
On 28th of July 2015, PeaceWorks hosted two storytellers from Ever After, Bangalore—Deeptha Vivekanand and Nisha Abdulla. Deeptha and Nisha conducted a story-telling workshop with the volunteers of the Peaceworks “Share Stories Open Minds” Project; the main purpose of the workshop being the exploration of new techniques to reiterate old stories. At the onset of…
The last phase of the Exchange for Change project dealt extensively with oral history narratives. School children on either side of the border collected oral histories from people who had either witnessed the partition themselves, or had heard about partition from those who had experienced it. Rudrani Gangopadhyay, a volunteer with the 1947 Partition Archives,…
What does the word border mean? When do we think about it? When politicians talk about them? When wars are fought? Does it require an event to initiate a discussion about borders? Exchange for Change, a yearlong program conducted in collaboration with the Citizens Archive of Pakistan addressed, through intensive workshops, the idea of borders.…
