The youth outrun change, helm break-throughs, smash through walls and create new realities. Imagine a world united rather than divided? A world animated by young citizens of the world rather than cluttered by jaded mouthpieces? Model United Nations (MUN) is one such activity where the young imagine and live the dream of helming global debates. […]
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A Smiling Initiative
Recently, two news reports more or less summed up the chasm between less and excess in India. An NGO alleged that 64 Bhil children in Madhya Pradesh’s Satna district have died of malnutrition. On the other hand, Hyderabad got ready to celebrate its version of the Spanish Tomatino festival and a friend created a Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=185221971542829&id=134206369977723#!/pages/Protest-the-Tomatino-festival/156765734401050) to question the sanity of […]
At Home In India
Typically, they arrive after finishing high school or college. But their aim is not to do the typical backpacker trail of visiting Jaipur and Agra and return with a bagful of pictures and stories about Indian exotica. Foreign students, who come into India on work visas as part of global youth organisation AIESEC’s international […]
Udaan 2011-Reaching For The Sky
“Well..a day full of happiness! The children at Deen Bandhu School were very enthusiastic and fun loving. They were full of energy. I loved watching the kids dance and loved painting and kite making with them. I was distributing painting sheets to children when suddenly a girl of class four held my hands tightly and asked for my mobile. I gave her the […]
Udaan 2011-A Curtain Raiser
The young have many voices. Of dissent. Of protest. And because the young gaze is unsparingly honest, it is potentially a catalyst for change. Change happens when disparate dots are connected and scattered ideas synergise a movement and no one knows that better than AIESEC, the worlds largest youth run organization. Almost 60 mellow years of age, it however is […]