The last phase of the Exchange for Change project dealt extensively with oral history narratives. School children on either side of the border collected oral histories from people who had either witnessed the partition themselves, or had heard about partition from those who had experienced it. Rudrani Gangopadhyay, a volunteer with the 1947 Partition Archives,…
What does the word border mean? When do we think about it? When politicians talk about them? When wars are fought? Does it require an event to initiate a discussion about borders? Exchange for Change, a yearlong program conducted in collaboration with the Citizens Archive of Pakistan addressed, through intensive workshops, the idea of borders.…
The International Conference on Teaching History took place on the 30th and 31st of July and the 1st of August 2015 in Kolkata. A platform for exchanging thoughts and ideas and learning, the conference combined panel discussions and workshops. It also showcased alternative work in the arts, in education and civil society opening up possibilities…
The second week of February saw a flurry of activity in Bangalore, with the Bangalore International School hosting the traveling exhibition ‘Anne Frank-A History for Today’. Ever After Learning and PeaceWorks, together with the Anne Frank House, Amsterdam, set up the exhibition and also organized a teacher-training workshop. The exhibition was attended by eleven schools in…
‘We share the same air and the same soil’, writes one of the students participating in the Exchange for Change program, words that resonate powerfully.In the wake of one of the most heinous crimes in recent history, an exchange program between the youth, and the future of two countries currently caught in a spiral of…
