This lecture was delivered at the Idea of Belonging Conference, Coimbatore held in October 2024. I will begin by recounting an experience that we had in November 2022 when we did a workshop at Shantiniketan—a small university town near Kolkata—with school children studying in classes 4 and 5. We conducted a workshop where we made multiple cards that could be classified into two broad categories—national identities (Indian, German, British etc.) and non-national identities (re

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.

A report on the annual History for Peace Conference 2025, 'On History and Literature'

The annual History for Peace Conference 2025 24, 25, 26 July 2025 Calcutta The Tollygunge Club Historians face the daunting task of...

Call for Applications: Duration: July 2025 – March 2026 Application deadline: 7 May 2025 The past seven decades, since India’s...

What is History? Is it a collection of dates and facts? Is it the study of human experiences, actions, and their consequences across...

Report on a workshop conducted at the Seagull Foundation for the Arts, in association with Teachers' Centre and facilitated by Sudipta Sen.

Report on the annual History for Peace conference on ‘The Idea of Belonging’ held on 1, 2 and 3 August 2024.

Janaki Nair spoke on 'Can History Wars Foster an Idea of Justice' The Idea of Justice Chapter Two took place at Shiv Nadar School,...

Marjorie Brown interacts with students at the workshop on November 28, 2023 In association with Takshila Educational Society, REWIND—The...

The idea of justice is a fundamental concept that has been debated and discussed by philosophers, legal scholars and ordinary people for...

The annual History for Peace conference—The Idea of Justice—was held at the Tollygunge Club, Calcutta between August 3 and 5, 2023. The...

NOW OPEN FOR ALL The idea of justice is a fundamental concept that has been debated and discussed by philosophers, legal scholars and...

This lesson plan was introduced to 28 teachers from ICSE and CBSE schools based in Kolkata at a History for Peace workshop on June 28,...

28 high school teachers from 18 schools in Kolkata participated in the workshop titled 'Caste in/and the Indian Constitution' at The...

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

This lecture was delivered as part of the 6th annual History for Peace conference titled 'The Idea of Democracy' which was hosted in...

This lecture was delivered as part of the 6th annual History for Peace conference titled 'The Idea of Democracy' which was hosted in...

This lecture was delivered as part of the History for Peace conference titled 'Beyond ‘Teaching’: A Conference on the Meaning of...

This lecture was delivered as part of the 6th annual History for Peace conference titled 'The Idea of Democracy' which was hosted in...