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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.

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Nationalism and Identity - Bani Abidi, Prateek Raja

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