Shiksharth

The ‘Ground Zero’ piece focuses on how organizations are rising to the challenges of creating an effective and inclusive internal culture by deploying plural and informal means.

Ashish Shrivastava shows us how being rooted in self-identified values, and responding to one’s context with sincerity, can help CSOs in fortifying human capital at the grassroots.

In the essay titled “Working with the government as a nobody,” Ashish Shrivastava discusses his organization’s journey in serving underserved children’s educational needs in a geography that has seen intense conflicts. He shows how active listening, building hyper-local partnerships, collaborating with a shared vision, and keeping a resolute focus on the field, can help in building credibility and effective partnerships with people and institutions in the government system.

Neeraj Naidu in a reflective piece highlights the absence of visual arts education in remote rural geographies, many of which are conflict-ridden, and argues that this is indeed a social justice issue.

The ‘Ground Zero’ piece discusses the work of four educational non-profits intervening across geographies and thematic areas, trying to ensure continuities in children’s learning processes outside classrooms.