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Avehi Abacus – The Journey
By Simantini Dhuru
When I began work with the Avehi Abacus Project (AAP), it was less than a year old.
At that time, I was making independent documentary films on environmental and human rights. We were struggling to reach wider audiences but lacked options for large public screenings. It was frustrating.
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We felt we were mainly talking to converts.
My immediate attraction for AAP was based on several things: chiefly, the way the curricular themes were selected and their connections drawn. I felt a great sense of identification as the latent logic behind my belief-system spontaneously unfolded, like scattered pieces of a jigsaw puzzle coming together.
The issues I was connected with were expressed in a tangible and interesting way in Shantaji’s (Shanta Gandhi, the originator of the project)