On the eve of 6th August, PeaceWorks in collaboration with Scholastic hosted children’s author Anushka Ravishankar. She read out her newly published books to a group of children from Nabadisha and Disha Foundation and the volunteers of our story telling project— Share Stories Open Minds. ‘Rumour’ and ‘A Boy Who Drew Cats’ were read out…
It was 2010 when we first started planning the Kashmir project. However going to Kashmir and working with the youth there seemed like a distant dream. It took time and a lot of perseverance but we made it happen. On 19 april 2012, a group of 14 students from Laksmipat Singhania Academy, two teachers and…
“I know a thousand ways of telling a story,” remarked Probir Guha, veteran theatre person who is known for his path breaking Alternative Living Theatre. PeaceWorks invited Probir Guha to conduct a workshop for our ‘Share Stories Open Minds’ volunteers. Our volunteers described the two-hour long workshop as a ‘deeply satisfying and educative’ experience. Reading…
Dialogue For Peace builds its third bridge by bringing together young adults from The Kashmir Valley and the North East India at the Assam Valley School, Tezpur. A 7 day long workshop designed to facilitate interaction between two groups of young adults—inspiring them to envisage a safer, better world where people live with mutual respect…
“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.” — Neil Gaiman Stories transport, stories amuse, they teach, question, and they heal. They shape the way a generation grows, help mould minds and they are essentially the way…
