Trepidation. Curiosity. ‘Whose paintings are those?’ ‘Where do we sit?’ ‘ When do we start?’ The eighth session of the Dialogue for Peace program started off with shy smiles, handshakes, whispers. Eleven students from the Kashmir valley and eleven from Lakshmipat Singhania School gathered at The Seagull Foundation for the Arts bright and (relatively) early…
Why do we write? Stories, poems or plays? Rohan Haldar, a student at Kailash Vidyamandir once told me that he writes so that children will start taking an interest in the world of literature. This coming from a boy who studies in middle school. And that in the world of stories there is happiness to…
Professor Sethi in his workshop presented a template of recording and teaching history and suddenly, everyone found themselves back in a classroom. The very first element of the model requires the historian or the teacher in the classroom to raise problems for analysis –- at what time does Sikhism begin to be recognised as a…
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…
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…
