Shoaib, in a conversation with Shahid. Camera and lights: Mohd. Saddam

(My journey with learning about early childhood. )— by Jasmine — I remember when I began working with older children aged between 8 and 12. Sometimes their younger siblings would join the sessions or watch us from a distance during park sessions. At that time, my co-facilitator was Nagma, and we started discussing whether something should be done for these children…

by Zainab Qureshi (This article was written on the 19th of May 2023. Since then, a beautiful, new version of Khwāb Ghar has reopened for the community.) When I first started working with children, I never considered incorporating books into our sessions. We had some stored in a trunk, and…

| Photography by Grace M Sukanya | Written by Mallika Shah | Everyday objects litter the stage of Aagaaz Theatre Trust’s Bhagi Hui Ladkiyan. …

by Mallika Shah Before reopening in October for the first time since the pandemic, the four performers of Bhagi Hui Ladkiyan — Jasmine, Nagma, Nagina, and Zainab — met the singer-songwriter Tanmaya Bhatnagar on Instagram for a live interview. As is usual with Instagram Lives, one party (Tanmaya) is always…

It felt like I was gradually being brought into the narrative. At first they were just stories, and then they became more and more relatable, causing me to start introspecting into my own life, और फिर, वो कहानी जो शुरू में उस किरदार की थी , अपने introspection के through…

Library access is overwhelmingly driven by class and caste privilege, wherein reading as an act of leisure or for academic pursuits is a marker of intellectual “merit”, and pursued as…

In July, members of Aagaaz Theatre Trust were invited to be part of the Dharamshala Residential & International Festival for Theatre (DRIFT). DRIFT is an entirely crowdfunded and volunteer-run theatre festival that has been taking place in Dharamshala since 2016. Nagina and Aslam of the Aagaaz Repertory worked with students…

I am Zainab, and I have been a part of Aagaaz since it was first formed. I am a professional actor and have been part of all major productions by Aagaaz (Duniya Sabki, Raavan Aaya, Bhagi Hui Ladkiyan, Rihla). The last few months, my colleagues and I have been working…