Continuing PeaceWorks’ ‘Cross-border Initiative’, students from India and Pakistan were invited to submit original short stories which explore the theme of peace. A board of judges, comprising writers, academics and litterateurs selected the 20 best entries which have just been published in the Stories for Peace anthology by Seagull Books, Calcutta. On the occasion of…
READING TEXT workshop by Minu Tharoor PeaceWorks organized a workshop titled ‘Reading Text’, conducted by Minu Tharoor (Professor, New York University) on 13 August 2009. The aim of this workshop was to help teachers to use the simple exercise of reading and turning it into a powerful thought-provoking tool for the students. Apart from a…
Art-historian Rajasri Mukhopadhyay, is a Research Fellow at The Asiatic Society, Kolkata and a Guest Lecturer in the University of Calcutta. She has been a resource person for various institutes and organisations like Ministry of Tourism, Government of India, State Museum, Bhubaneswar , Jatin Das Centre for Arts and ‘Peaceworks’. She is the Associate Director…
Brother Brendan McCarthaigh is the founder of Students Empowerment, Rights and Vision through Education (SERVE) Brother Brendan arrived in Calcutta in 1960 and since then has made India his home and the reform of the Indian educational system his crusade.
The 30 minutes spent in Akshar, while conducting the workshop for Class X, left me more fulfilled than 24 hours spent on most other days. The reasons were many but all connected to Akshar. The objective of the school—which is to place mentally sound and otherwise mentally and physically challenged students in the same space,…
