SPECIAL PROJECTS
The Special Projects seek to identify and support talent that explores
innovative approaches and uses alternative and creative media such
as film, art, theatre, dance and installations. Fellowships under
this category encourage NGO workers, activists, grassroots practitioners,
artists, policymakers and full-time professionals to bring their learning
and expertise to a wider audience.
2008
Special
Projects
Ratna Menon (New Delhi, India)
The India-Pakistan Border in Punjab
Sarala
Emmanuel and Radhika Hettiarachchi (Colombo, Sri Lanka)
Heroes and Victims: Exploring Disability and Human Security
in Sri Lanka’s Conflict and Its Impact on Social and Economic
Opportunities for the Disabled.
2007
Mr.
S. Gautham (New Delhi, India)
Women Can’t Swim: Tsunami, Survival and the Gender Dimension
Ms.
Meera Khanna and Ms. Sehjo Singh (New Delhi, India)
The Boy and the Soldier: Impact of Armed Conflict in Kashmir
2006
Uddipan
Dutta, (Tezpur, Assam)
Creating ‘Robin Hoods’: Popular Print Media as
Mouthpiece of Insurgent Organizations: Reading through the Discourse
of Assamese Newspapers in the Early Period of Insurgency in Assam.
Dilrukshi
Fonseka, (Nugegoda, Sri Lanka)
Earth and Stone, Debris and Ash: Public Space and Violence
in the Sri Lankan Conflict
Malavika
Vartak (New Delhi, India)
Memory and Migration: Bhutanese Refugee Women and Oral Histories
of Self and Nation
Alpana
Kishore (New Delhi, India)
Kashmir: Layers of Nationality, Identity and Ethnicity
2005
Nirekha
De Silva (Colombo, Sri Lanka)
Transitional Justice for Ex-women Combatants
Anurupa
Roy (New Delhi, India)
Women in Conversation with Puppets: Storytelling and Puppetry
as Tools for Conflict Resolution
Jaimala
Iyer (New Delhi, India)
Healing Through Dialogues – Theater of the Oppressed
and Beyond
2004
Taran
Nishat Khan (Aligarh, India)
Telling Tales: Negotiating Religious Identity in Classrooms
Zakia
Haque (Dhaka, Bangladesh)
Women and War: A Study on Stranded Bihari Women and Girls
in Bangladesh
Oishik
Sircar (New Delhi, India)
Engendering Persecution: Safeguarding South Asian Women’s
Rights under International Refugee Law
Anjana
Shakya (Kathmandu, Nepal)
Women and Children in Armed Conflict with specific focus on the Maoist
Conflict in Nepal
2003
Anupama
Sekhar (Chennai, India)
Mezzanine: Youth Writing Peace
Bindu
Nair (Pune, India)
Women’s Bodies and Communal Violence, Gujarat, 2002:
Locating Sexual Violence in Hindutva and Patriarchy
Kamini Karlekar (New Delhi, India)
The Refugee Women of the Afghan and Burmese Community in Delhi
Kanchan
Gaba (Kolkata, India)
The Plight of Women Prisoners in Jail Custody
Khelena
Gurumayum (Imphal, India)
Manipuri Women’s Role in Crisis Management during “Cease-fire
Extension without Territorial Limits”
Shireen
Saleem (Karachi, Pakistan)
Impact of Religious Extremism on Women in Pakistan
Suparna
Jain (New Delhi, India)
Decentralized Governance in Schedule V Areas and Empowerment
of Women: Resolving Conflicts through Law
2002
Anita
S. (Trivandrum, India)
Coping and Sustenance Strategies of Women in Conflict over
Natural Resources due to Modern Development
Aradhana
Gupta (New Delhi, India)
South Asian Women’s Electronic Resources Alliance (SAWERA)
Dolly
Kikon (Guwahati, India)
Experiences of Naga Women in Armed Conflict Narratives from
a Militarized Society.
Mossarat
Qadeem (Peshawar, Pakistan)
Afghan Women: The Burden Bearers of the Twenty-Year War
2001
Chitra
Balakrishnan (Bangalore, India)
Research to Evolve Gender-Sensitive and Culture-Specific Models
of Alternative Dispute Resolution
Smita
Bharti (New Delhi, India)
Beyond Silences: Documenting Theatre in Jail and Outside
2000
Geeta
Chandran (New Delhi, India)
Her Voice
Paula
Banerjee (Kolkata, India)
Across the Experiences: Naga Women in Sri Lanka
