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‘FREEDOM TO DREAM’ @ AADHARSHILA HOME
“I want to complete my education and become a big man one day” – Participant, Aadharshila Home<br> “I have always wanted to help people and with my work, I’ve managed to fulfill that dream” – Member, Child Welfare Committee<br> Be.
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Yuva Ekta 2011-Dainiks Volunteer Diary
April 29, 2014 A year has passed by since the first time I bonded with various people from amazingly differing horizons. Having so many people who are brimming with ideas in one room just makes me go, “Whoa”! I find.
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Director’s Note
“Didi (sister), will you bring me a Tulsi (basil) plant on your next visit? The Tulsi is sacred; I will put it in my mandir (temple).” This is the summer of 2009. We are at the Observation Home for Boys.
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Dreams and Transformations
Tucked away in North Delhi’s Kingsway Camp is the Seva Kutir complex that houses (among other spaces) an observation home for juvenile’s under trial as well as a detoxification centre for juvenile addicts. The complex is as green and clean.
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Finding Me- Jaipur Diaries
The finding me workshop has been one of the most amazing things that I have ever experienced. This has truly changed the way I look at life drastically. Ten days ago, when I entered the workshop, I did not believe.
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“Only connect!”
“Only connect!” – E.M. Forster In times when building walls is being noisily celebrated, art silently labours in creating bridges. It is one of the most satisfying labour one can experience. Theatre being the most hybrid form of expression unearths.
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Home/Away Diaries
“बरगद की छांव”, मुझे इस इसकी छाओं में आने का मौका तब मिला जब मैं पहली बार ऑडिशन देने गया,पहले राउंड ऑडिशन के बाद जब मुझे राजन के करैक्टर का ऑडिशन करने के लिए बोला गया तो मैं सोचने लगा.
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In their minds, Through their eyes!
When I first met Veeru ( name changed) at the de-addiction centre for juvenile delinquents in Sewa Kutir- SPYM Sahyog, I was struck by his concentration level and his love for colours. Thoroughly enjoying the vibrancy of colours while painting.
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Interns Diary, An Hour in Jahangirpuri
On Thursday last week (July 21, 2016), I had the honour of receiving a personal tour of the notoriously infamous Jahangirpuri. It was built in the 1970s as a resettlement colony for the countless immigrants that had swarmed into the.
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My introduction to Papier Theatre – and how I Survived!
Raju, Matia, Sonu… unforgettable characters spring forth from the pages of Shyamal Kumar Pramanik’s short story “Survival”, to share their gnawing hunger and degrading struggle to survive. Not an unfamiliar “Dalit” story. Yet they come home with me every night..
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Naatya Raasta Diaries
For someone, who’s had a very little experience in theatre but wants to stick with it for as long as possible, events turning out in their favor might seem like a little magic from the universe. Yeah, well, toning it.
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Small Wonder
I have, in my own small ways, since many years, dedicated a part of my so called ‘artistic abilities’ to be manifested in any kind of re-cycling and re-using objects of daily use. There is a wonderful joy in just.