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Jun 26, 20235 min

Teaching the Indian Constitution: Fundamental Rights, Resistance and the AFSPA - A Lesson Plan

A lesson plan on teaching the constitution, focussing especially on AFSPA and fundamental rights.

Jun 16, 20239 min

Queerness as 'Art': Naveen Kishore’s ‘Performing the Goddess’ as a Pedagogic Tool

A resource discussing the need to embed subaltern perspectives of queerness into the South Asian classroom through the analysis of a film

May 18, 20227 min

Thinking with Historical Bollywood Films @ Akshar

Session 1 We began the first session of the workshop series to a full house of 38 students from across classes 9 and 10 with two...

Apr 4, 20222 min

Thinking with Films: The historical film edition

If you are a social science teacher concerned about historical films being consumed by your students unquestioningly as 'historical...

Apr 3, 20211 min

Understanding Migration: The Film Module

'Cinema holds a critical space in exploring something as intimate, yet public as migration. While migration has been a historical reality...

Oct 27, 20201 min

Thinking with Films

‘The degree of impact a film can leave on its viewer, as well as a film’s value as a record and product of its time, are both part of the...

Oct 27, 20201 min

Anne Frank: A History for Today

It was in the winter of 2012 that representatives from the Anne Frank House, Amsterdam arrived in Calcutta at the Seagull Foundation for...

Mar 26, 201818 min

Nationalism and Identity - Bani Abidi, Prateek Raja

Bani Abidi is a widely exhibited Pakistani artist. Prateek Raja is the co-founder of Experimenter.