Young minds at work...creates a chain reaction in Delhi!....By Kritika Mattoo and Ritikaa Khunnah (Delhi, India)

Kritika Mattoo and Ritikaa Khunnah organized a Grassroots Comics workshop on 22-23rd June, 09 with nine enthusiastic youth of Delhi at Pravah office in Kalkaji, New Delhi. The participants were volunteers working for NSS, an NGO associated with Pravah. All nine of them came up with wonderful comics on issues ranging from encouraging sports as a profession, cleanliness in railways to encouraging girl child to study, discrimination on basis of religion etc. What was inspiring for both of them was to see how unsure these youth looked in the beginning, somewhere just like them in the beginning of April workshop and how they all finally came up with excellent comics!

The group decided to make about 10 comics on issues of their interest in next one month and then meet and put all of it as an exhibition in a public space. The good news is that this group has already conducted a two- day grassroots comics workshop on June29-30th, 09 with15 more youth and taught them how to make wallposter comics. A chain reaction indeed!