History for Peace – Looking Back at 2024
The world that I am living in now, young people are leading global movements for justice for the last 10 years. Whether it was the Arab Revolt, the ‘We are the 99%’, which was the big occupation of Wall Street, or the global movement of 130 campuses across the US and the rest of the world against the genocide in Gaza. Think about why these students are risking their future, their student loans. It’s not even a struggle for themselves. It is a struggle for an idea of justice. . . Click here to get a glimpse of projects implemented in 2024 >>
Celebrating 100 years of K. G. Subramanyan
The celebrated artist, teacher and public intellectual Kalpathi Ganpathi Subramanyan (KGS) was born in Kerala a hundred years ago. At a deeper level, his journey from Palghat to Vadodara, via Chennai, Santiniketan, Baroda and again, Santiniketan, exemplifies the best of the idea of India. From the 1997 book by academic Sunil Khilnani to the erudite dialogue between historian Romila Thapar and theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, we have a framework to understand the contours of the idea of India. While these scholars articulate it in words, the visual language of KGS provides a graphic and pictorial reading of a nation that went through the excesses of both colonial and post-colonial regimes.