Articles

Eeva Puumala, a research fellow at the Tampere Peace Research Institute, in Tampere, Finland, had visited Talimi Haq School in Dec 2006, while working on her paper on migrant labourers in Calcutta. Eeva was a participant in the Fourth Winter Course on Forced Migration organised by the Calcutta Research Group.

Read Eeva's essay "What is it to be many? Iconic migrant and the gaze of the stranger" here (open in a new window).

Here are links to some more articles about / from Talimi Haq School. (Open the links in new windows.)

"In Search of Ramrajya", essay written on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of India's independence, 15 August 2007.

"Design is Love", in ADA, Mail of the Month (from Sweden), Dec 2007.

"The Right to Education and a Pedagogy for Hope: a view of Talimi Haq School", by Sohel Firdos, et al. This would appear in the forthcoming book Quality and Inequality: Interrogating School Education in Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal, edited by Manabi Majumdar & Jos Mooij.

"Using hope as a method of understanding poverty and empowerment in Kolkata’s urban slums", by Lorena Gibson, written in 2006.

"Poverty, Empowerment and Grass-roots Democracy" by Sita Venkateswar and Lorena Gibson, in the October 2006 issue of Graduate Women New Zealand (go to page 33).

"Beyond Four Walls", an essay by Amina Khatoon, teacher at Talimi Haq School, written in January 2006.

"Across the river", an essay written in early 1999 by Seema Tewari, a volunteer from Calcutta who helped to set up Talimi Haq School in 1998.

“Educational Scenario of Calcutta’s Urdu Speaking Community”, was written by Dr MKA Siddiqui, an eminent anthropologist, in 2005. This helps to put in perspective the larger context within which the work of Talimi Haq School may be seen.