ONE BILLION RISING — A GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION AND DANCING IN PROTEST AGAINST VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ONE BILLION RISING began as a call of action based on the staggering statistic that 1 in 3 women on the planet will be beaten or raped during her lifetime. With the world population at 7 billion, this…
We took immense pleasure in having a wonderful story telling workshop with Kusumika Chatterjee yet again early this year. Kusumika Chatterjee’s sessions with our volunteers have been an inspiring guide and has helped our volunteers hone their story telling techniques. She has demonstrated the power of simple hand gestures and facial gesticulation. Some of our…
Kashmir-December2012 An ache, A fire, My desire… A need I feed Gorging on the matter Matter-of-factly on another Precipitous cannibal Eats himself inside out, Outside in Din, dry noise This rising hunger Feeds, even when fed On its own irrepressible need The fifth session of the Dialogue for Peace: the Kashmir Project was a platform for young…
Neither a free period nor an English class When I began my sessions on the PeaceWorks School Curriculum at Vidyanjali School, the students had asked if they should consider my sessions as free periods where they could have fun or as a ‘regular English class’. Neither, I told them, trying hard not to…
Being a student of literature for the longest period of time, the idea of facilitating the PeaceWorks Literature Curriculum (PWSC) in National High School was thrilling. Could I initiate a series of discussions on identity, gender and human rights with the help of literary pieces? I wondered. I was nervous as I hadn’t done this…
