I have been wanting to write this for the last one year. We (SWAN) are gearing up to release a video to remember or recall the last one year since the lockdown. This post isn’t going to be about any issues that would matter. This is my experience of being part of SWAN, a volunteer group forContinue reading “A year since SWAN”
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Roundtable: A discussion with main political parties in TN on Environmental Justice
27 March 2020. A roundtable discussion was organised by Young people for politics and the Chennai climate action group. Both are small and relatively new youth-led collectives. CCAG works on Environment justice and YPP works to encourage youth in politics and I got an opportunity to moderate it. An invitation was sent to all theContinue reading “Roundtable: A discussion with main political parties in TN on Environmental Justice”
Adolescents’ Access To Child Services, Mental Health in Small Towns Still Poor
(This article was first published in the wire. Resharing it here) I don’t know why I am angry all the time’, ‘Is it okay to kiss my boyfriend?’, ‘I don’t have any friends and I feel very lonely coming to school’, ‘What do I do when someone follows me home?’, ‘Will good girls chat withContinue reading “Adolescents’ Access To Child Services, Mental Health in Small Towns Still Poor”
ONE YEAR!
Part II- Reflections based on the responses from parents The workshops and research were done in a school in Kumbakonam in Tamil Nadu, a small semi-rural town known for its temples. C.P. Vidya Mandir matriculation school is a low-income private school and the gender sensitization programme was administered to 620 students while 418 students participatedContinue reading “ONE YEAR!”
The Long Road Home: A Day in the Life of a Stranded Migrant Worker in Bengaluru
May 17, 2020, 4 pm: A volunteer with the Stranded Workers Action Network (SWAN) gets a call from Sanoj. He is one among 15 migrant workers who had vacated their rented rooms in Bengaluru on May 10, hoping to return to their home states – in his case, Jharkhand. Sanoj recounts in Hindi that, whenContinue reading “The Long Road Home: A Day in the Life of a Stranded Migrant Worker in Bengaluru”
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