Aaryan is an independent filmmaker and storyteller rooted in rural India. His debut feature film, Aājoor (2024), is the first-ever feature film in the Bajjika language, spoken by over 20 million people. A groundbreaking community-driven project, Aājoor premiered at the Kolkata International Film Festival on December 5, 2024, and later at the International Film Festival…
Good mental health is recognised as an integral part of a person’s wellbeing and development embedded in all aspects of life, their beliefs, faith, culture, environment, spirituality, work, housing, education, family and community respect. The work of MeHelp aims to spread public awareness on mental health literacy in urban and rural India. Their work focuses…
Positively Shameless grew out of a 12-week Drama Therapy Process that was a therapeutic intervention for adult survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (CSA). The project was born out of Maitri Gopalakrishna’s PhD study at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) where she saw an opportunity to push the boundaries of her work towards theatre…