By TCN News,
New Delhi: At a time when the LoC clash has spurted fresh waves of jingoism on both sides of the border, with people challenging the peace activists and advocating a stronger or more inhuman reaction, a people’s initiative, Aaghaz-e-Dosti (beginning of friendship), will launch the “Calendar for Peace and Love” with paintings of hope collected from youths of both sides of the border.
An initiative of Mission Bhartiyam, a nongovernmental organization, working towards peace and harmony, Aaghaz-e-Dosti, aims to create unwavering bonds of peace and friendship between India and Pakistan.
The calendar has six paintings, chosen from a completion organized in collaboration with two Pakistan based organizations for ‘innocent minds’ of children that narrate the restriction of ‘freedom’, the ‘desire’ with the birds flying across borders and peace and friendship for a better future.
Together with the beautiful dreams of the young and innocent, the Calendar also has messages from people who have been actively working to nurture these dreams.
Ravi Nitesh of Mission Bhartiyam said, “This calendar is a collection of these shared dreams of peace and friendship. It serves as a hope shared by people who are just like us, in habit and struggle. With the turn of the pages to start a new month, the hope shall be renewed.”
Mission Bhartiyam collaborated with two Pakistan-based organisations, Center for Youth development activities (CYDA) and Imov Humans.
The calendar will be launched at the Gandhi Peace Foundation in the capital on January 27. The main speakers include Pankaj Singh (Eminent Hindi Poet and part of the Foundation of SAARC Writers and Literature), Sirish Aggarwal(Founder of India Pakistan Families Solidarity Association) and Pankaj Chaturvedi (Noted columnist in many newspapers and Co-editor at National Book Trust) and some Pakistani students studying in India.