Since 2016, the Sasakawa Peace Foundation (SPF) and Zubaan Publishers Pvt. Ltd. (the sister organization of Zubaan Trust) have organised Fragrance of Peace, an extensive cultural and literary programme in India’s Northeast. Fragrance of Peace aims to bring together writers, artists, journalists from the Northeast to more places in ‘mainland’ India and support conversations between writers within the region. A significant part of the project uses Zubaan’s publishing platform to showcase literature from the eight states in Northeast India. A recent anthology, Centrepiece: New Writing and Art from Northeast India (2018), brings together 22 writers to focus on women, work and identity, and two additional books on Manipur and Nagaland are in the planning stages. In addition, the Zubaan–Sasakawa Peace Foundation Grant for Young Researchers in North-East India is given to young scholars from the eight northeastern Indian states and neighbouring areas. This research grant, in its second year in 2019, aims to encourage young writers and researchers to contribute to the diversification of knowledge production.
The Zubaan trust, established in 2003, has worked on various projects in its fifteen years of publishing. Visit the website for information on current and recent projects conducted by the Zubaan trust:
Stepping Stones & Body of Evidence, which aims to work through creative forms such as theatre, art and poetry, in order to create the social space for what we hope will be open, transformatory dialogues with youth on understanding structures of violence, particularly sexual violence and impunity.
Poster Women, an archive that maps the women’s movement in India through the visual media, specifically posters, produced by various groups and individuals across the history of the movement.
Sexual Violence & Impunity Project, an ambitious and wide-ranging study into sexual violence in conflict areas across the South Asia region.
Cultures of Peace: Festival of the Northeast showcases the diversity of cultural production, practices and ways of being in India’s Northeastern region by creating opportunities for people to converse with each other through writing, music, film, theatre, media, photography, and more. This ever-evolving ‘festival’ aims to amplify the voices of the many peoples in the seven (+ one) ‘sister states’ (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura + Sikkim), highlighting present-day concerns and issues while historicising the region’s relationship with ‘mainland’ India at the same time. Since it started in 2011, the festival has been organised by Zubaan in collaboration with the Heinrich Böll Foundation. The festival was conceptualised and produced by Preeti Gill and Mary Therese Kurkalang; since 2015, it has been coordinated by Meghna Singh.
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