How Music is Changing the Lives of Underprivileged Kids at El Create
This article first appeared in News18.com on the 21st of February, 2017 News18 has partnered with the crowd-funding organisation, BitGiving, to raise funds for Music Basti, the organisation that enables music learning for underprivileged and at-risk children to nurture confidence and skills to engage with a rapidly changing and increasingly complex world. Set up in […]
Just For Kicks: This Young Woman Is Levelling The Playing Field Through Sport
This article originally appeared in Huffington Post on the 12th of April, 2016. Written by Suraj Katara It is the concluding day of the two-month-long School Football Championship 2016, one of the biggest interschool football tournaments in India with 225 teams representing a mix of low-income government and private schools as well as elite international […]
The courage to teach
This article originally appeared in The Hindu on the 30th of January, 2016. Written by Pankaja Srinivasan Giving up corporate jobs and fat salaries, an increasing number of young men and women are committing their lives to providing education to India’s poorest “I had career goals, now I set myself happiness goals. Giving and getting […]
Commitments, obsession, heroes and triumphs – everyone plays with just for kicks
This article originally appeared in The Times of India on the 20th fo April, 2013 It was that time of the year, when a bunch of kids from Teach For India classrooms, all over Mumbai wore their shiny boots, sturdy shin guards, brand new jerseys and stepped on to that lush green football field to […]
Creative Class
This article first appeared in The Indian Express on the 12th of June, 2011. Written by Somya Lakhani Music Basti interacts with underprivileged children, teaching them music In her blue kurta and churidar, Faith Gonsalves looks like a student hanging out at a fast food joint at the Kashmere Gate metro station with a bunch […]
