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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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PARTICIPANTS' REPORT ON THE ANNUAL HISTORY FOR PEACE CONFERENCE 2026 - 'HISTORIES OF THE PRESENT'
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 talking about...
UNLEARNING with Urvashi Butalia
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 and not taken...
