The hip hop duo, Dean and K invited me to join them at a cypher that had been organized by a Delhi rap collective at Deer Park in Hauz Khas Village. This was open to all the local hip hop artists, and they had published the information up on this collective’s Instagram page (and that’s […]
In my study, I look ethnographically at youth-led coalitions in Delhi, India that are set outside of adult run educational organizations to understand i) how and why they come together, ii) what are their practices and how do these develop over time and in relation to other (digital and physical) spaces that youth participate in, […]
This summer, I am expanding upon the work I started last year at the The Community Library Project (TCLP), New Delhi where together with library practitioners and youth leaders, I looked at the role of informal spaces in young people’s literacy and learning outcomes (you can read more about the work on the CASI (2022) […]
Earlier this year when the team of curriculum designers at The Community Library Project and I first started speaking about the possibility of studying the role of informal spaces in young people’s lives, our research interests, though essentially looking at similar aspects, differed. While I was interested in looking at youth engagement in informal spaces, […]
Public libraries are not only centers for literary activity but also important sites for social activity and inclusion, and learning. Increasingly, the role of public libraries is being taken up by individual library practitioners and nonprofit organizations who often expand the role of libraries from being just a space that provides access to books to […]
During the COVID-19 lockdown in India, along with schools and other educational institutions, public libraries too remained shut. While the impact of school closure due to COVID-19 on literacy and learning outcomes of school going children in India has already been taken up across multiple studies by researchers, educators and various government and non-government organizations, […]
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