PROJECTS

Collaboration between Dr. BMN College of Home Science and PUKAR PUKAR promotes research as a right for everyone and uses it as tool for pedagogy, advocacy, intervention and transformation. Based on our experience of working with community youth and the transformation we noticed in their knowledge, skills and attitude, we realized a need to engage with undergraduate students in more structured format. In 2014 PUKAR and Dr. BMN College of…

2007-2008 Partner: Sir Ratan Tata Trust This project was born out of the prevalent political system where the creation of second, third tire leadership is not fostered. This attitude combined with that of youth who seem to carry a large spectrum of negativity towards policymakers and politician has led to a continuous crisis of younger leadership in the country. This project created a forum where the local community, the PUKAR…

2004-2005 Partner: Sir Ratan Tata Trust The project was aimed at engaging the youth in self and locality documentation to articulate their concerns about urban life. It explored the process of research and documentation as tools for pedagogy and social intervention. The participants were Marathi speaking youth associated with various organizations - educational, government and non-government. They represented diverse socio-economic and educational strata and had no previous experience. They worked…

2003-2004 Partner Organizations: SRTT The Neighbourhood Project was inspired by PUKAR's larger vision of documentation as an act of intervention. It invited students and other citizens to write ethnographies and histories of their own localities and neighbourhoods. Using the lens of biography and family history, the project documented Visual (using photographs and videos) as well textual data (in the form of essays and stories), valuing the special ability of such…