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READING CIRCLE: Workshop with Teach For India Fellows
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 everyday themes. After...
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Why Did It Take So Long? The Missing Dalit Histories of Partition - Akanksha Kumar
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 is to see...
HISTORY FOR PEACE AMBASSADORS PROGRAMME
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 the programme was...
HISTORY FOR PEACE AMBASSADORS - REFLECTIVE ESSAYS
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 understanding of...
HISTORY FOR PEACE AMBASSADORS - FILM ESSAYS
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 enthusiasts, film...
