What is the Rigour to Your Compassion?
August 12, 2022
In Part Two we discuss the limitations of anger, the potential for empathy instead if accompanied by rigour, and the underrated merits of using joy pedagogically.
From feminist pedagogies to critical approaches, teaching strategies and learning methods, we look at pedagogy as a living, breathing organism shaping learners’ abilities to take constructive action.
In Part Two we discuss the limitations of anger, the potential for empathy instead if accompanied by rigour, and the underrated merits of using joy pedagogically.
Acclaimed filmmaker Avijit Mukul Kishore leads The Third Eye’s flagship online curriculum called Filmy Shehar. In the two part masterclass on Queer, we look at diverse ways in which homosexual characters have been represented in Hindi films.
On May 19, 2022, a bench of the Supreme Court of India issued a directive recognising sex work as a profession, wherein the practitioners of sex work shouldn’t be penalised, harassed, incarcerated or punished if they are consenting adults.
In the two part masterclass on caste, we search for obvious and subtle ways caste plays out in the ways mainstream cinema constructs society. We explore standpoints – of filmmakers, films, and images to discover shifting points of view in the ways cinema shows (and hides) caste.
Eight of us – four young teenage girls and four women – move about the room imagining ourselves in different places. Sometimes we are walking in open fields, sometimes we are catching the metro. Sometimes we are shrieking in glee and running through unexpected rain.
Acclaimed filmmaker Avijit Mukul Kishore, who is well known for his intimate portraits of people, places and changing urbanisms, leads The Third Eye’s flagship online curriculum called Filmy Shehar. Watch the first masterclass on the Chhota Shehar below.
Since December of 2014, The Green Hub in Tezpur, Assam, has turned teachers, forest guards, footballers, field guides, students and youth-at-large, from across the varied landscapes of the north east of India, into documentary filmmakers.
In Konkani, we use the expression ‘she walked the city so much, she turned it to powder.’ Our mothers said it to shame us for bunking college, sitting behind some guy on his bike and roaming the city.
The Third Eye explores the role of science education in our expectations of public health, and how, as we turn into con-sumers of science rather than producers, we forget that sci-ence has stopped serving those that need it most.
T talks about the day the mosque across her house offered namaz for three deaths together, an unprecedented event that shook up her entire mohalla. S talks about her friend who lives down the lane, who is left orphaned after the recent passing of her mother.