‘I love Bollywood dance moves and I want each one of you to introduce yourself with one move’ was how Aaron Peterer from the Anne Frank House, Amsterdam began the three-day Free2Choose Create workshop. At the end of the introduction, the fourteen of us had outdone Farah Khan in creating the next magnum opus for…
28–29 November 2013 The Anne Frank exhibition had finally arrived in India with Calcutta hosting it for the first time—thank you Seagull. Before the exhibition opened for public viewing, 18 students from four schools—La Martinere for Boys, Lakshmipat Singhania Academy, Modern High School for Girls and Calcutta International School—came together for a two-day workshop at…
Human Rights Defenders programme report ‘Tell the Prime Minister to go and wear a sari’ said an adolescent boy, jostled by grinning men, as he accused the PM of having ‘given in’ to the demands of Muslim groups in the face of tensions over Babri Masjid. Around me, as I sat cross-legged in a darkened…
Living With Difference ‘Tell the Prime Minister to go and wear a sari,’ said an adolescent boy, jostled by grinning men, as he accused the PM of having ‘given in’ to the demands of Muslim groups in the face of tensions over Babri Masjid. Around me, as I sat cross-legged in a darkened room watching…
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…
