Sunita Biswas and Ishaan Rajabali from History for Peace conducted a workshop with the fellows of Teach for India, Calcutta, as part of TFI’s Annual Conference. HfP led an interactive session that drew on articles and short stories that delved into the relationship between food, memory, culture, politics and history. The purpose of the exercise was to explore creative and meaningful teaching methods to encourage critical and analytical thinking within classrooms through every

On 22 August 2026, the Community Library Project, in collaboration with History for Peace, organised another session of Doing History, where Dr. Akanksha Kumar, professor of history at Janki Devi Memorial College, spoke about her experience studying the missing Dalit histories of Partition. She began her research at JNU in 2008, focusing on the Dalit experience via oral history, identifying a research gap that had been overshadowed for long. In terms of methodology, her aim

History for Peace has just concluded its first ever Peace Ambassadors programme. The project was launched in February 2026 in collaboration with the Department of Liberal Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (DLHS) at the Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) at Bengaluru. Three final year students of History – Aditya Sunil, Avishi Agarwal, and Yash Bhattacharjee took on the mantle of peace ambassadors under the guidance of their professor, Swathi Shivanand. The aim of t

L to R: Yash Bhattacharjee, Avishi Agarwal, Aditya Sunil History for Peace and the Department of Liberal Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at MAHE-Bengaluru successfully completed the first Peace Ambassadors programme with three final year students of History – Aditya Sunil, Avishi Agarwal, and Yash Bhattacharjee. The essays here trace their individual journeys through different historiographical traditions and the ways in which these encounters transformed their understa

These essays are a part of the first History for Peace Ambassadors programme with the Department of Liberal Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at MAHE-Bengaluru. They have been written by the three peace ambassadors Aditya Sunil, Avishi Agarwal and Yash Bhattacharjee. For a complete report on the programme click here. Introduction Historical films often become our first and most enduring encounter with the past beyond the pages of a textbook. Whether we are history enthus

This is an abridged version of a comprehensive report with particular focus on the relevance of the conference in the classroom. It includes inputs from Harpreet Kaur, DPS Ludhiana, Nikhil Ranjan Pawar, DPS Pune and Aniket Nandy, DPS Coimbatore and has been compiled by Rohit Kumar, DPS Patna of the TAKSHILA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY (TES). Naveen Kishore delivering the Opening Addess “Tolerance does not grow with banning what is thought to be unpalatable; it grows with arguing and

Report by Lavaya Senthil Urvashi Butalia began by discussing what she had learnt about Partition as a member of the first post-Partition generation. In school, students were given a neat picture – the British and Pakistanis wanted Partition, Indians did not; Nehru was good, Jinnah was not; India was better for choosing secularism. Students, including Butalia, accepted this as truth. Meanwhile, family member’s real experiences of the Partition were seen as mere family tales an

Report on a series of workshops on 'Sifting Fact from Fiction' conducted in April and June 2026 in association with the Teachers' Centre.

Report of a workshop on 'Cinema in the Past and the Present' facilitated by Ira Bhaskar at The Community Library Project, Delhi, on the 8th of May 2026.

Report of a workshop on 'Imagining History: A Century of Gita Press' facilitated by Akshaya Mukul at The Community Library Project, Delhi, on the 24th of April 2026.

Report of workshop on 'Sifting Fact from Fiction' at South Point High School, Kolkata.

Report of a workshop on 'Doing History - Doing Law' facilitated by Shahrukh Alam at The Community Library Project, Delhi, on the 10th of April 2026.

Report of a workshop on 'The World of Hindi' facilitated by Dr Avinash Kumar at The Community Library Project, Delhi, on the 25th of March 2026.

Report of a workshop on 'Thinking About the Indian Constitution' facilitated by Dr Gautam Bhatia at The Community Library Project, Delhi, on the 28th of February 2026.

The following is a report of a workshop on 'History-Writing and Popular Memory' facilitated by Dr Aparna Vaidik at The Community Library Project, Delhi, on the 31st of January, 2026.

I am not a scholar. What I wish to share with you here are some reflections around the work I do. I will begin with briefly revisiting my personal history to make connections between stories, memories and identity, followed by insights into the socio political realities that led to our work and finally I will speak to how our work informs counter memory as an individual act of resistance. But first, sincere and heart felt gratitude to Prof Angana Chatterji and the Berkeley Ce

On History and Literature History for Peace Regional Conference, November 2025. Conference Report The History for Peace regional conference, held in November 2025, was a significant academic gathering aimed at senior school students (Classes 9–12) and their educators. The central purpose of the programme was to dissolve rigid boundaries between history and literature, demonstrating that historical interpretation is deeply rooted in narrative construction. By foregrounding thi

REFLECTIONS BY WORKSHOP FACILITATORS 12 years, 22 cities, over 500 teachers, over thirty thousand students. Each time we are ready to take the Anne Frank—A History for Today project to a new destination, we tell ourselves, it’s about time we did something different, only to bring an element of newness and excitement for us—the facilitators. And yet each time we follow the same format and still find new insights and exhilaration from the interactions at the peer guide training

Report on the Professional Development Course 2025 conducted on 19 and 20 November, 2025 at Shiv Nadar Noida.

A Report on the CLPR PACT Indian Constitutional Education Workshop conducted on 13 September 2025.