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people currently on the faculty of Gap Year College. Some of them are
resident faculty while others visit regularly to conduct workshops and
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Vinish
Gupta |
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Vinish,
a linguist by formal training, has been a teacher and educator in
different universities and colleges for over a decade. He has been
involved with environmental and social movements and campaigns; he was
also the member of a Buddhist monastic order for over a decade, during
which time he had the opportunity to study and explore traditional
Indian philosophies and systems of living. Vinish was educated at
Jawaharlal Nehru University, at IIT Delhi, and at Deccan College, Pune.
His current interests include value education, and design of
environmentally sound systems and technologies. Vinish currently heads
the Gap Year College. |
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Karuna Morarji |
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Karuna
has a long-standing concern with understanding relationships between
education and visions of human possibility and development. One avenue
through which she is currently examining these issues is doctoral
research in Development Sociology at Cornell University. As an
educator, she enjoys sharing an appreciation for critical social theory
as a lens to see relationships between things that often appear
independent and disconnected. Other current interests include food,
film, processual / historical analysis and collaborative ways of
teaching, learning and living. Karuna was educated in Sweden, India and
USA. Karuna is married to Vinish. |
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Yashodara
Kundaji |
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Yashodara
Kundaji has been involved with Teaching English as a Second Language
and developing activities for Environment Education in Schools. She
likes doing origami and hand work, disseminating books and encouraging
the joys of reading and writing among children. Her larger interests
lie in exploring health through body-mind connections, community self-help and sustainable living practices. Yashodara is married to Kanwarjit Nagi. |
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Kanwarjit
Nagi |
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Kanwarjit Nagi is trained as an
architect but has spent 20 years learning, understanding and tinkering
with bamboo. His other areas of interest are encouraging creativity and
problem solving abilities in the young, writing software and practising solar passive architecture. |
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Mridu
Mahajan |
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Mridu
has been working on understanding and implementing holistic education
amongst adolescents and youth for the last seven years. She
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designed and facilitated workshops on life skills with adolescents,
youth and teachers from rural and urban backgrounds with organisations
such as, Pravah, Jamghat, British Council and SIDH.
Mridu
studied Economics and Political Science at Duke University, and has
a keen interest in developing a holistic education curriculum
for
children and in understanding natural health systems. Mridu is married
to Ankit Pogula. |
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Ankit
Pogula |
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Ankit
is an independent film-maker based in Delhi. He has been engaging with
youth groups on issues of Development, Identity, Environment,
Self
and Media for the last 5 years. He often extends these
engagements into film-making processes, where the participants take
these films back to their spaces for sharing and further
engagement there. He seeks to draw linkages between our own
lives
and larger phenomena happening around the world.
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| Chaiti Seth | | | | |
 | Chaiti is deeply interested in understanding human freedom and the
wonders of the natural world, and in exploring sustainable, creative
and harmonious communities. Over the last five years she has
participated in and helped facilitate educational programs for
examining ourselves, human society and ecology. She has studied
Japanese, and Geography and Environment through the University of London External
Programme. Other interests include music, organic farming,
land work, travel, language, and learning processes. |
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Fr.
Anand Mathew |
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Fr. Anand Mathew
IMS, has for over a decade been director of Vishwa
Jyoti Communications, Varanasi, a centre for media art and
culture committed to promotion of human rights, primary education,
communal harmony, and community building through low-cost media. He is a well known social activist
and has been associated with various local and national social
movements, and with movements for inter-faith harmony and
collaboration. He is known for his excellence as a trainer in Group
Communications and Low Cost Media. |
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Vipul
Rikhi |
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Vipul is
a writer by profession, vocation and compulsion. He grew up in Delhi
but now lives in Pondicherry, in south India, with his wife. He
freelances for a living as writer, editor, and giver of workshops. He
has also been a teacher of French in a previous avatar. |
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