We began our first day of the programme with an interactive session, beginning with an introduction to the History for Peace project and the Human Rights Defenders programme. Following this initial introduction, we moved into a Q&A session with the students where we asked them what led them to sign up for the HRD programme.…
In the previous class, Rajosmita had left the students with a list of terms to dig deeper into. Picking two from there I began my first class for this new batch of the Human Rights Defenders programme at Chowringhee High: Civil law and Martial law. ccccOne student read out a definition of civil law from…
We picked up from where we finished in the last class, so that was with discussing the line from Jerry Pinto- ‘The fading is much much faster for the lesser being’. ccccThe students had some confusion regarding what fading could imply, given the context of Pinto’s article. So, we began with exploring what it would…
This was my first class with this batch of students at the Chowringhee High School. It was a class of approximately 30 students from the 9th grade. ccccThe class began with me writing out some words drawing from the module including Anne Frank, human rights, Nazi, Fascism, identity, caste, religion, gender, citizenship. The students were…
After the last Anne Frank: A History for Today exhibition I conducted, in Saikul (Manipur), the prospect of one in Kochi seemed ordinary enough. 30 class 8 students from across 7 (CBSE) Bhawans schools from across Kochi. How much novelty could I find? Day 1 At 9 AM on the morning of 19 Jan the…
