Subhadra Kamath As an artist, I am constantly indulging in meaning making in the mundane madness of what the world keeps throwing at me. As a creator, a practitioner and facilitator, or a performer, I seek the excitement of that explosion of creativity, of that deviation from the “normal” and…

by Ritika My first experience with Aagaaz was at Khuli Khirkee, a studio where I attended a session with the Facilitators Collective, or Fac-Col. Fac-Col, I had heard, was a space for theatre practitioners, artists, musicians, educators, and anyone who practises as a facilitator, to come together and play with…

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…

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. There are chappals, shampoo bottles, an istri, sanitary pads, a jhaadu, hair accessories, pots, pans, dustbins, buckets — just really ordinary, mundane things that occupy…

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…