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Creativity and Action | May 29th, 2023 | Pathways School Gurgaon, New Delhi
With our host, Anoushka Jolly, student at Pathways School Gurgaon, join us for a fascinating look at the role of creative collaboration in responding to issues that you care deeply about. Anoushka is in conversation with Mursal Mohammadi and Dakxin Bajrange Chhara as part of the Festival of Hope India event.
Dakxin Bajrange Chhara is an award-winning filmmaker, playwright and an activist from the Chhara De-notified Tribes of Ahmedabad in the western part of India. His book ‘Budhan Bolta Hai’ (Budhan Speaks) was awarded first prize for “Mahatma Gandhi Best Creative Writing on Human Rights” by National Human rights Commission (NHRC) for 2010-11. He was also a recipient of the South Asia Award “Jeevika 2005” for his documentary film Fight for Survival. Currently, he works as an Artistic Director at BudhanTheatre (www.budhantheatre.org) and runs his film production house Nomad Movies. He has written and Directed 13 plays and Supervised 48 Theatre Productions of Budhan Theatre and performed more than 1000 shows in different parts of India. He directed his debut critically acclaimed Bollywood film “Sameer”, starring Zeeshan Mohammed, Seema Biswas, Anjali Patil.
Mursal Mohammadi fled Afghanistan in 2017 and moved to India, where she became the leader of a youth club in BOSCO (a UNHCR partner), where they provided opportunities for refugee youth to participate in educational and social activities. She is a graduate in Multimedia and Mass Communication from the Indraprastha College for Women University of Delhi. Besides her academic studies, she is an active photographer and visual storyteller and a freelance interpreter for asylum seekers’ projects. Her work focuses on gender equality, refugee and displacement, and societal inequalities.
