Methodology: Questionnaire and Interviews
Language: English
Catalysts: Tushar Thakur
Youth Fellows:
Sachin Bhagat
Bhavana Parab
Vaijanti Mamtora
Sanjay Tiwari
Tushar Thakur
Coordinator: Pallavi Shinde
About the Subject:
This group consisted of students of Masters in Social Work (MSW). Since most of these youth would ultimately go out to work in the society, they wanted to explore their own prejudices or lack of it regarding religion and its place and impact in the lives of the common people.
Challenges & Learnings:
Due to the sensitivity of the subject the group members were anxious about the transparency of the answers. Therefore they created the questionnaire in such a way as to reveal most of the innermost feeling in an indirect fashion. They chose three social science institutes namely TISS, SNDT and Nirmala Niketan College of Social Work.
Conclusion:
The interviews revealed that the MSW students were more secular in attitude. They also were aware of the conversion processes happening in some areas. But on the whole they were still unwilling to have a candid discussion about this. The researchers felt that if the MSW students had these many difficulties in expressing their honest views, how could they expect these people to provoke discussions in the larger public domain about it.
End Product:
They created note pads depicting their findings.
