Prantakatha
Our SaathNirbhar Story:
“God will take care of those who take care of their fellow humans,’ believes Sonu Rono Sarkar of Kolkata. With support from Prantakatha that works with marginalized youth of West Bengal, Sonu put himself at risk and ferried more than 500 Covid patients to hospital in the second wave last year along with techie Abhishek Mukherjee. Abhishek developed a website that mapped available beds in 30 hospitals across Kolkata during the second wave for convenience of patients. Abhishek also arranged for Covid vaccination drive for LGBTQ community and destitute children who were most exposed to the virus.
About Us:
Prantakatha is all about "Power of Storytelling towards social change"! While its one component is development of self, the other component is story or Katha! This has two pronged approaches "youth active citizenship development" and also "creating spaces of youth dialogue on marginalized issues with the mainstream of life". The name "Prantakatha" holds both the parts together. The core is Pranta or Margin. The understanding of Margin is as a dynamic position of "Self" which is floating across age and over physical, social, economic, cultural domains! So in a way each one of us has a margin, does not matter whether we are aware of it or not! It could be as a child, as a woman, as a seniour person, could be as one classical music lover in a family of rock music lovers either! It is the “space-inside” where we feel the pain most, excitement and also creation!
Issues:- Develops cross section of the young population college students, youth from urban slums, from red light areas, queer population, religious minorities etc.
GEOGRAPHICAL SPREAD
Issues
LGBTQIA++ Rights
