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,…
STAGE 1: Group reading of a story and presentation Right at the outset, the students were divided into three groups and each group was given a story called ‘The Impossible Dream’. This story was accompanied by 11 questions, prompting the children to ponder over the issues raised. They were asked to relate the story to…
St Joseph’s College, Bowbazar, is a boys’ higher secondary school where we went for a workshop on Identity conducted by Sumeet Thakur as a part of the PeaceWorks School curriculum with boys from Class IX on the first day (4 February 2008) and Class XI on the second day (5 February 2008). We met the…
Debolina Dutta conducted the first of its four-part series workshop, on issues of human rights, at Chowringhee High School on 15 January 2008. 18 students, both girls and boys, from standard VIII and IX participated in the one and a half hour session. The session started by screening two clippings from Anand Patwardhan’s Ribbons…
