Auroville Today published an interview with the
Facilitators of the Swadharma programme in September 2016. Manas met with the
students of the 2016 and 2017 programmes to understand it from the
participants’ perspective.
The Swadharma programme brings in groups of
young adults to help them find their unique gifts, or their swadharma. Watching
the final presentation by students of the January 2017 programme, I was struck
by the diverse styles of storytelling. Clearly, this was an interesting group
of people, and I decided to meet them to understand the Swadharma programme
through their eyes.
Diverse
backgrounds
The participants for Swadharma 2017 came
from extremely diverse backgrounds. Meedhu trained to be a journalist and
worked for some time with The Hindu, but was disillusioned with the lack of
ethics in journalism. She had always loved performing arts and moved to an NGO
that taught ballet to HIV positive and street-rehabilitated ch...
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